hurdle

My female owner started out on her semester break, listing down the things she had to complete by the time school started again. Happily, she did manage to complete all that she has set out to do.

Well, that was the first hurdle. For the rest of October, she has to complete the following:

• Proposal on dementia caregiving training – 60%
• Couple therapy paper – 60%
• Mark (or vomit over) 31 year 3 assignments
• Weekly tutor responsibilities (like respond to anxious students’ emails and prepare for class)
• Data analysis for research work + writing up of paper ASAP (in her supervisor’s words)

Already, she is sweating over her assignments. She broke out into her familiar pattern of panic and started to catastrophise all the worst case scenarios… and wondered if she would be able to fall sick strategically so that she can obtain a medical certificate to get an extension for her assignments.

In a way, the end is quite near for her. Only 3 more weeks till the end of semester, i.e., end of all her coursework. If she had continued in her Masters programme, she would have actually reached the end…. And graduate at the end of the year. And be a fully registered psychologist. Wow. That’s how fast 2 years went for her and us turtles.

Well, now she has an extra year to go, to complete her final placement and her 40000-word thesis.