Thursday, February 22, 2007

To Limbo and Back

Last week was crunch time part one. I took a week off just so I can entertain the grounded theorist and get some work…okay, A LOT of work, done. It was exhausting, both physically and mentally.

It’s funny since a colleague of mine, who’s also on the same situation as mine, decided that we needed a break before we worry about the next step. So earlier in the week, the moment we gave our outputs (me to my adviser, she to her panelists), we will detox and play tennis. It was suppose to be this week since it’s the only time that both of us are free. Yet for some reason, there’s this weeklong athletic event in Rizal that will end mid next week….when both of us are no longer free.

It seems that fate is playing with us again. We’ll see. Out next common free week again will be the first week of March (I’m sure I can afford one hour of tennis in my prep week, right? ; ) If by some reason, we still can’t play on that week, fate is definitely making us finish our academic requirements.

And today, the results are in---OVERHAUL 160, people!!! Grounded theory is sucking the life out of me. I never thought writing this type of research would yield varying degrees of “qualitativeness”. Just when I thought my Results section was qualitative enough, my adviser tells me to make it more qualitative. At first, it’s like she’s speaking in German, or rather it’s in English but it felt like German ^^; I met with her in the late afternoon and I walked away with the stuff that I need to revise, a stiff neck and a headache.

So, until then, I doubt I’ll be able to update again. Next week, I’m going back to my “zone” and start revising (and getting “high”, as my adviser said it helps when writing the Discussion ; )

Darn, this is a boring post. :P

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

aaarrrggghhh! that IS definitely a major HEADACHE inducer! but cheer up, i bet you'll make it! it may look like a very bloody long process but it'll definitely have an end.

GodBlessYa,Dude!

Anonymous said...

TO CHOCO: Pffft...I'm starting not to care...WHY THE HELL IS IT SO HARD TO WRITE THESE DAYS?! I think I've lost it--I look back at my old course requirements and I ask myself, "How come those sound more decent than what I've been writing now?!?!?!" I'm ranting, bear with me but I've never experienced this much difficulty in writing. And this darn thing is due in 5 days @__@ and I don't have Chapter 4 yet!!! Btw, thanks for the cheeing up. - JENNAI