I've had several different tasks to work on as an intern, but the bulk of my efforts are going toward revising and beta testing a workshop.
Guess what the workshop is on!
WILLPOWER!
(I am saying that in my He-Man voice)
"I have the (will)power!!!"
But hey, if you feel like talking about dopamine triggers, I've got plenty of conversation material.
Anyway, I have to work for a minimum of ten hours a week (160 hours total), which I thought would be cake, but it turns out, it's not cake at all.
Interning from home is hard work! If I could have a do over, I'd do an on-site internship for sure!
It's hard to get anything done in the five-minute increments my children allow me to work. I feel like schoolwork adds up in five minute sessions even though it's not ideal, but internship work doesn't. Partially because of my writing process. When I write workshop lesson plans, I go through quite the mental ordeal. I read and reread. I cross reference, double-check everything, change the order of paragraphs, stare at the screen and meditate, and I talk to myself... a lot. I think I get a good two hours per week toward my internship by simply talking to myself about the lesson content. I have to make sure I can form verbal explanations from my lesson outlines. It's all about rehearsing! That's all hard to do in five-minute sessions. I mean, I just barely get in the "talking to myself" zone, and then I have a kid pulling at my leg asking for "water in a sippy cup with ice" (that one is Zoe - she likes her drinks on the rocks).
Anyway, bless my in-laws for taking my kids to the zoo today so I can have some time to
Seven more weeks, folks! Seven weeks til I wear the gown!
2 comments:
So close to graduating!! Keep up the good work, although it sounds extremely hard to mother and finish up school from home.
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE GOWN!
xox
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