final round

26Jan09

It’s time for the final round at university for this semester. So today I start with an exam in spanish (nothing too difficult I hope, already got info from the professor and he won’t make it too hard) and later, on Thursday, there will be two other exams on “methods in communication science” and “media and business” that should be more challenging as time is running out and I haven’t learned one line for those so far.

Beside I had a hard weekend. Started with some driving lessons on Friday, where my students had a good day and I was fine at all. Unfortunately they won’t make it to the practical exam on 5th of February as they don’t make the theoretical one today. So another two weeks more to practice with them.

I had to write a paper for “theories and modells” which is a very thereotical class on media and communication. You have tons of text to read, several sheets out of more than a dozen books. So after I had another driving lesson in the morning on Saturday, I went on with writing around 12AM. It was nearly 1AM next morning when I went to bed and the breaks I had between, were not very long – I would say permanently sitting at my desk, analysing pdf-files and thoughts of “famous” people writing “interesting” books . Sunday then I woke up around 8.30AM and after a good breakfast started to write at 10AM. This time I wrote until 10PM (with only a break of 1 or 1 1/2 hours where we celebrated the 72th birthday of my grandpa in the other flat) and finished the paper – finished means I might read it once again to see if something is missing, but it’s done! I had some problems with my legs in the early afternoon when I noticed that all that long sitting wasn’t so good and effected on my health. So I tried to change my position from time to time, but that’s not easy when you have to write and don’t want to get a hurting back too … but in the end everything got well – I’m fine now again.

With all that stuff finished, I started to learn spanish for today’s exam. This was approx. at 10.30PM,  .. while I was chatting with three colleagues on skype, had a look at some movies on TV and checked my e-mails. So I did some multi-tasking before I switched off my computer around midnight. I went to bed, but watched two periods of NHL Allstar Game broadcasted on Austrian National TV (ORF) for the first time. Beside I had some sheets with grammar and notes in spanish spending some time with me in bed … so I learned another two hours and got well informed on everything. In the end it was 3AM when I switched of TV and called it a night. This morning I got up at 6.30AM .. so just slept for 3 1/2 hours, .. hope it was enough, but I feel good and fit

So wish me luck and I will do my best on the exam. Afterwards I gonna relax a little bit and meet with Thomas and Martin who came over from Vienna yesterday evening, when I had not time for any leisure activities, so we’ll go for a coffee today – myself maybe also have a short visit at the card room before heading home, … no poker for two weeks now, should get some cards in hands

Next time on my blog: Everything on our Vienna trip (10th to 13th Feb.) and my job

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