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Thank you @sweetlittlevampire, @yourfavouritedoll and @abschaumno1 for the encouraging replies to this post about my writing project!

There once was a creature (she is I)
Whom technology did oft defy
She got replies to a post
And though she did her most
She could not reply to a reply

This wonky and apologetic poem of gratitude was sponsored by poor IT skills and goldfish memory.

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sweetlittlevampire said: YOU CAN DO IT! I’M ROOTING FOR YOU!!!!

Thank you, lovely! ^_^

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sweetlittlevampire

Isabelle! I must have missed your previous post, I am sorry! I hope your day will be much brighter, and that your anxiety will learn how to properly social distance from you. Hugs and kisses!

Thank you, lovely! I’m keeping my anxiety in check today, forcing productivity which, I guess, is what I have to keep doing. Hope you and your mum have a good day <3

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yourfavouritedoll

That sucks! I hope things get easier for you soon

Thank you! My anxiety is a night owl, so it usually takes a back seat in the mornings and tends to leave me alone if I meet my writing/editing goals (so that’s what I’m going to do, and hope for the best).
Hope you have a good day.

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[skellingcrow]

Got offered the job I applied for which is a Good Thing™ (yay) but now my brain is revolting against me and telling me to panic :(

Objectively I’m very happy, it just isn’t manifesting as joy.

[sweetlittlevampire]

Knock it off, brain! If it consoles you, I had the very same thing happening to me (I’m sure you’ve noticed)- it’ll be alright eventually. Just breathe, have a tea, do some things that make you happy to distract you. It’ll all be fine.

And most of all: CONGRATULATIONS! :D

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@sweetlittlevampire thank you for your support, dear <3 I know these feelings are stupid and unproductive, and I’m doing my best to smother them in positive thinking. I just hate that I’ve accepted a few lessons which are not going to happen now. Couldn’t really have refused as long as I didn’t have a job offer, but it still feels like I’m letting people down. Also: old and new contract dates also overlap by a day which the new employer said was fine but which my scumbag brain is using against me to full effect X)

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@marvellousbee replied to your post: Job interview tomorrow and I’m pretty excited! :D…

Vill Gléééééééck!!! :)

Merciii ! ^_^

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abschaumno1 replied to your post :

abschaumno1 replied to your post : Well, that’s…

Oh lord. I guess the only thing you can do is wait and see how it turns out :/ I’m sure they won’t mark it as a complete fail though?

It ‘s part of 15% seminar assessment of this module (so I’ll be marked on this and my responses to other people’s position papers every week). It won’t be a complete fail if I can somehow redeem myself, but it’s not an ideal start…
“\( ‘~’)/”

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abschaumno1

replied to your post :

Well, that’s this year’s first marked assessment…

…how bad was it?

Weeeell… I’m not sure I answered the questions I was meant to … it was a “position paper” (I am currently sitting down because it’s easier to type, but I don’t think that’s what they wanted)  on two critical texts for seminar preparation which I had to upload and now everyone has to write a response  … It was on Henry IV, so I’d written this whole 500 word mini-essay on stuff I thought was interesting (how Hal was using Falstaff and his friends for his own means, etc…), drawing on the critical texts (So I drew a little house with butterflies … not really, but I might at least have gotten points for creativity)… in any case, I saw that everyone else was kinda rephrasing the essays, rather than using them as a starting point for something else. Basically I submitted utter rubbish 3 minutes before the deadline … I now have a 9am seminar and won’t be able to sleep because I’m so tense … (present and future… and the punning isn’t helping )