just a bit more life-panic

Email from boss:

Assignment 3 is due 5pm today, so I will print them off tomorrow (Wednesday). Can I drop them round to you tomorrow evening? I have to send in my final results sheet at 9am Monday 25/6, so that leaves us not much over a week to mark this lot and discuss the queries and borderline cases as usual. Is that ok?

...ahahaha. Because marking thirty papers on matrix theory is just what I have time for right now. I'd forgotten how hellish this particular job could be around exam time. Fuck. Fuck.

Plus, the cat scratched me two days ago and drew blood and my tetanus immunity ran out last year and I didn't get a booster and now I have a headache and a sore throat which probably indicate stress/the beginnings of a very normal cold, but of course I'm getting paranoid on top of everything else.

I think I am in serious need of coffee. And any other mental health tips anyone would like to offer.

(no subject)

The real problem is that walking into an exam knowing less than everything is unthinkable.

It shouldn't be. I have tried and tried and tried to change this, but to no avail. I have no sense of intermediate preparation. Either I know everything - and I am prepared - or I don't know everything, in which case I could fail.

Somehow I don't think I'm going to kick a twenty-year-old cognitive block of that magnitude within the next week.