The WAC run that *never* was....
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. That was the title of the unofficial James Bond film (a remake of Thunderball )starring Sean Connery released in 1983, which was released almost at the same time as the official James Bond franchise film "Octopussy".... Connery was asked after "Diamonds are forever" in 1956 if he would consider playing Bond again. He said "Never". :|
Food for thought, that.
Otherwise I'm in a much better situation to blog now.... Some food in the stomach and a few hrs of sleep can work miracles :D
On Fri night, I made very little progress with my WAC analysis, and like an absolute ass decided to take a 'nap' around 12. True to form, I fell asleep immediately and since I had a sneaky suspicion I might do that, I'd set an alarm for 5.... Which means I was up by 6.
If I've gotta do well, I've got to conquer my sleeping problem.... I did the same thing twice last week, which meant I went underprepared to class and piled on backlogs for myself (esp in Economics :( )
Anyhow, so at 6 AM when most ppl had just gone to bed after finishing their first draft, I began my efforts of writing the WAC report.... Its not 'rocket science' as they say, but it aint very straightforward either. I started writing my Situation Analysis only to realise 150 words and 1.5 hrs later, that I was writing total CRAP. By that time I was cursing my idiocy the last day, and nervous as hell. Anyhow to cut (what could be) a long story short, I then started thinking and writing more sensibly, made good progress and was able to finish the report sans the Executive Summary and Memo by 12.30.... And without exceeding the 1100 word limit by too much(~80 words), which meant my editing would not take too much time....
As is customary, I enlisted a tuchcha's help to read and point out inconsistencies in arguments,etc and subsequently started editing. Finally I was able to get it done and reviewed yet again by the inhouse WAC experts ( again tuchchas of course!) by 3, which left me quite ample time to print and submit the same by 4.oo
And there were no waiting monsters ( read, tuchchas :P) to waylay my path, so it was rather straightforward.
After this began the unwinding...... A lot of stress over the week, and one chance to forget it.... For a day at least.
Food for thought, that.
Otherwise I'm in a much better situation to blog now.... Some food in the stomach and a few hrs of sleep can work miracles :D
On Fri night, I made very little progress with my WAC analysis, and like an absolute ass decided to take a 'nap' around 12. True to form, I fell asleep immediately and since I had a sneaky suspicion I might do that, I'd set an alarm for 5.... Which means I was up by 6.
If I've gotta do well, I've got to conquer my sleeping problem.... I did the same thing twice last week, which meant I went underprepared to class and piled on backlogs for myself (esp in Economics :( )
Anyhow, so at 6 AM when most ppl had just gone to bed after finishing their first draft, I began my efforts of writing the WAC report.... Its not 'rocket science' as they say, but it aint very straightforward either. I started writing my Situation Analysis only to realise 150 words and 1.5 hrs later, that I was writing total CRAP. By that time I was cursing my idiocy the last day, and nervous as hell. Anyhow to cut (what could be) a long story short, I then started thinking and writing more sensibly, made good progress and was able to finish the report sans the Executive Summary and Memo by 12.30.... And without exceeding the 1100 word limit by too much(~80 words), which meant my editing would not take too much time....
As is customary, I enlisted a tuchcha's help to read and point out inconsistencies in arguments,etc and subsequently started editing. Finally I was able to get it done and reviewed yet again by the inhouse WAC experts ( again tuchchas of course!) by 3, which left me quite ample time to print and submit the same by 4.oo
And there were no waiting monsters ( read, tuchchas :P) to waylay my path, so it was rather straightforward.
After this began the unwinding...... A lot of stress over the week, and one chance to forget it.... For a day at least.
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