Dear Reader, if you are still out there, I can only applaud your tenacity. But, you may be in luck, as this blog is potentially about to see an increase in postings…. as I am about to become a student. So of course posting here is likely to become a favourite way to postpone working on any assignments. On Tuesday, I am attending an interview to undertake a Masters in Arts – Philosophical Studies. To complete my wafting persona. I flirted with an MBA, but seriously, that was never going to be completed. Anyone who has read my musings on education will realise – internal motivation is everything.
I’m slightly weirded out by the “interview” – I mean what could they possibly ask me? Am I meant to “dress up” to impress them?? Also, I realised the other night, that in my application frenzy I forgot to update the cv I did for the purposes of the MBA – wherein I state that my goal is to update and upgrade my managerial qualifications with a view to blah blah. That actually made me giggle at 4am. I wonder if they will ask me about that? And also (in my frenzy) my application letter was charmingly old-fashioned, in that it was actually HAND WRITTEN, because I am unable to achieve a functioning printer. HAHAHA. In my covering note, I almost made some apologetic remark about the fact that everything was handwritten and that I *would* be able to access a typewriter at some future point for the purposes of an assignment…… but then I felt that was too self-deprecating and I should be unashamed in my use of the ball point pen. (Plus, I don’t want to get their hopes up.)
It reminds me of my Dad’s various assignments – written in long hand – that he had kept from the various degrees that he never completed; and like the undutiful daughter that I am, I threw them all into the bin. God I miss my Dad so much. He would be appalled that I was thinking of going to university: ”Why are you going *there*?” An unanswerable question. Let’s hope they don’t ask that.
