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God I feel like such a swot!!

Finally finished my Classical social theory presentation (due tomorrow) - ended up with me just doing the first part of the question (basically everything to do with rationalisation, that Weber said), and then Kris (who got given the same presentation Q) said he'd do all the human liberty part (which is the hardest part - as I said to him - and also contains the bulk of the essay Q, my part is mainly the background).

I now have two pages of condensed notes, and about four pages of original notes. And I'm still worried I haven't done enough for it, as it's meant to be a ten min presentation, and done the same way we'd do an essay...

Also quite worried because Kris txt'd me tonight before 'Desperate Housewives', asking me if I had a definition for human liberty (i.e. he hadn't done the beginning part of his section yet), and then he rang me to see how I'd done, and was asking me how our tutor wanted the question to be answered (for him to do it based on examples or from the things Weber had said).

Could only really tell him that she hadn't specified, so he should go for what's easiest to do, so he's going to try and do it from the things Weber has said (the man never directly theorises about human liberty, but we can draw conclusions based on what he's said about other things).

I would've answered the second part of the question as well, just in note form so I can contribute more if he looks like he's struggling, but I didn't have the time - or the books! So we'll be going in with my crappy part, and then I'm not sure how he's done on his part...and, argh! I wanted to do well for once!

Also concerned because I need to do my Politics h/work tomorrow (due before end of tomorrow) and one of the people in my group can't get online, as the system's down where she is, and she can't even access her email. Meaning she probably won't be able to do her portion of it, and even if she did there's no way (other than printing it out and then me or someone else copying it up for her, online) to get it posted on the vle.

She was stressing about it, so I kind of told her not to worry and that if worst came to worst I'd do her portion as well as mine and post both of them - crediting her with the part which would have been hers - because she's my friend, and I don't want her to do badly because of something which she has no control over like the system being down, but I also really don't want to have to do so much extra work! I ended up doing extra work last week as well, and I wasn't even attending the bloody seminar...

All I've done about it so far is emailed the other people in my group - one of which has already done his part (concise, and the minimum contribution he can get away with while still being acceptable for the class) - and told them her problem, and then asked for their ideas on how to handle it. Haven't heard back from them yet though, so I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow, and if I don't hear back from them I'll have to do two lots of work...maybe more if the one other person posts one of the parts I choose. *growls* So fucking frustrating!

People seem to think I'm reliable, or clever, or capable when it comes to these kinds of things - and so I try to be, if only so I don't come off looking bad myself, and it's soooo hard!

My main worry is that I'll sleep through my seminar tomorrow morning.

I managed to wake up and get up at 9:30 today (I'm proud of this, despite the fact I didn't have any lectures or seminars, so didn't actually need to be up then), and I chatted to Katri-o-na (hope you're closer to figuring things out btw), then did presentation work so I was ready to meet up with the boy-who-may-not-have-done-the-work-or-done-it-right.

Which means my body may rebel tomorrow and decide not to bother getting up - or else my brain will feel too put-upon and shut down for those crucial hours extra.

And all of that means that I'm now really looking forward to this weekend, when I can sit at home and not worry about things.

Still, tonight was quite good. Got to watch DH, which was so funny (and I said "she can see him again if they dig him up again" about a min before Edie said almost exactly the same thing - which I think startled everyone), and we also booked some of our accommodation for our Italy trip. Yay! Good things! ^_^

K, I'm gonna wander off and do something now...maybe go collapse - I'm not used to being awake for this long!

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SCREAMS

God I HATE Politics right now - or more like, I hate the way we have to do the work!

Got my friend to do her portion of the work still (I've emailed all the reading to her hotmail account, which she can access at the moment, and she'll email what she writes to me to put up). Which she wasn't very happy about because she's hungover and not well, and didn't think she'd have to do it still - tough! I'm being a bitch today, because I'm overworked and not being paid!

But what we both realised is that we're not meant to just do the three perspectives (Politics, society and economy) and then do an intro and conclusion - we actually have to formulate an argument based on what we've discovered about the three perspectives!

Well, we're no-where near organised to figure out an argument amongst ourselves, and we don't have enough time to do that anyway, as it's got to be finished and posted before the end of today.

So I'm stuck doing the argument all by myself because I wasn't there last week, so didn't get a say in which part I wanted to do - two of my group members have now done their portion of the work (one has done waaaay too much though, so I've had to email her and ask her to cut it down - doubt she will though, as I doubt either of them will be checking their emails now they've done their parts. They're good like that), one of which was helpful to me, the other one not (you can tell which one I mean), and then my friend hasn't done her part yet so I've had to read all the society section myself and try to figure it out...and then try and turn it into an argument.

...think I've almost got an argument figured out - something along the lines of ethnic and linguistic boundaries triggering the conflict in Sri Lanka, as they're the problems which seem to be popping up in each of the different perspectives.

But I have no idea if that's on the right lines or not, and I'm getting the sinking feeling that my group are expecting me to merge everyone's contribution together...again. Don't wanna. :p

Have less than three hours to do it all in as well, and I've already been at it for over an hour, so if my friend doesn't email me her work soon there's no way I'll be able to do the merging - and I don't think anyone else in my group will realise and do it for me!!!!

*stresses*

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My presentation wasn't great today - managed to oversleep again (as I knew I would), so I had to run to the seminar without my wake-up shower, or breakfast, and give my presentation whilst still half-asleep.

Did manage to get their early though, as I literally did the bare minimum this morning, so I snagged a cinnamon whirl and ate that for breakfast before everyone else arrived.

Didn't get told off for my presentation, and she said it covered everything it needed to, but I was very underimpressed with myself and think she was just being nice - it would've been complete shit if it was an actual essay.

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Meant to be going and seeing the 'Witches of Eastwick' tonight, at 5:30, which is why I have to finish my Politics early - and I would be looking forward to that a lot, especially as we're eating out first, but I'm looking at it as a deadline too much right now to go 'yay!'.