As regards the child care: You'll probably get a faster response out of the vice chancellor's office if you phone. Preferably every day until you get a response. Obviously you call putting on your politest voice and say sorry to trouble you and so on a million times over. But I think people find it much easier to ignore letters and e-mails than the phone. Sounds to me like right now, you need to resolve the uncertainty of your situation more than anything, and this would help.
Internet - that's got to be a major pain in the arse. Who is the provider? What do they say their issue is?
I have no idea how you can concentrate on anything study-related with all that stuff going on. I think this is one thing that men are better at than women. My husband can block out stuff that is bothering him by burying himself in work. Not me. But baby steps. One thing I find helps a lot is really narrowing down specific tasks by thinking what I would tell somebody else in my position to start with. I make a to-do list with items like, write 300 words on X, or figure out what such and such article says about Y. The day counts as a success if I can tick off 2 or 3 of the things on my work to-do list.
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Date: 2009-09-29 05:44 am (UTC)Internet - that's got to be a major pain in the arse. Who is the provider? What do they say their issue is?
I have no idea how you can concentrate on anything study-related with all that stuff going on. I think this is one thing that men are better at than women. My husband can block out stuff that is bothering him by burying himself in work. Not me. But baby steps. One thing I find helps a lot is really narrowing down specific tasks by thinking what I would tell somebody else in my position to start with. I make a to-do list with items like, write 300 words on X, or figure out what such and such article says about Y. The day counts as a success if I can tick off 2 or 3 of the things on my work to-do list.