Hmmm, it’s now 12 October and the most recent event I blogged about happened on 15 September. \u00a0I guess that means I should go stay in the naughty corner for bad bloggers, but I have excuses! \u00a0A lot! \u00a0Well, mostly just one.<\/p>\n
Remember that job of mine? \u00a0That I’m no longer doing? \u00a0Teaching at the University of Iceland<\/a>? \u00a0Well, since I’m a compulsive student, I signed up for a three-course diploma-level university teacher education program<\/a>\u00a0two years ago. \u00a0I took two of the courses during my first year (and they were my mental salvation!), but\u00a0the last one<\/a> was sort of a whole-year sporadic thing during the second year.<\/p>\n To finish the third course I needed to do a ‘research project’ on my own teaching\/job, and initially meant to do a ‘How the heck do people do this job without it taking over their lives?!?’-project. \u00a0Sadly, by reading research articles on the matter, it really started looking like nobody had a good answer, so I got very demoralized. \u00a0And quit my job. \u00a0(I would have quit my job nonetheless for a whole host of other reasons, but this didn’t help.)<\/p>\n So during the summer this final project percolated in my brain, nagging at me, until I finally hit upon something I could actively ‘research’, namely the different outcomes of a student research project I conducted two years in a row for one of my classes, but which got implemented somewhat differently between those two years.<\/p>\n And so that percolated for a while, until I finally sat my butt down on 1 October and started writing just in time for the October graduation.<\/p>\n Two days later, writing got rudely interrupted for two days while Bjarki suffered through one of those ‘all-day’ stomach bugs, vomiting from 6 am to 7 pm, but he was right as rain the day after. \u00a0I on the other hand had hardly slept a wink waiting for him to vomit all night, so I was a wreck. \u00a0Thank goodness for grandparents is all I’ll say!!<\/p>\n Writing resumed on Friday, took a hiatus over the weekend (because I absolutely refuse to work on the weekends if I can help it) but this past Wednesday, 10 October, I finally sent in the project, and got a stamp of approval the next day. \u00a0Oh the relief!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n So my excuse for the non-existent blogging (and non-cleaning, non-tidying-up, and not doing anything not directly related to getting through the day with minimum fuss) for the past two weeks is that this final project ATE MY BRAIN.<\/p>\n But stay tuned for entries from the month that has gone by! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hmmm, it’s now 12 October and the most recent event I blogged about happened on 15 September. \u00a0I guess that means I should go stay in the naughty corner for bad bloggers, but I have excuses! \u00a0A lot! \u00a0Well, mostly just one. Remember that job of mine? \u00a0That I’m no longer doing? \u00a0Teaching at theRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}