I’ve just received an email telling me that my Situated Creative Practice Project has been cancelled… yeah, after the worry about not getting accepted, the elation at being accepted and then the disagreement with how it was being conducted (will explain later), it’s actually been cancelled. *incoherent screeching*

Now, the Project has been cancelled for a good reason; amidst the pandemic of Covid19, it was decided the the project was to at risk and so they’ve decided we can no longer proceed.

What does this mean for me?

I basically have two options: pick two elective units for this semester and enter the, in Week 4, or wait until next year to do the Work Integrated Learning. Imma say no to the second one. I’m currently on track to graduate, and as long as they don’t do anything dodgy like saying that I won’t meet the conditions to graduate because of this, then I should still be able to graduate at the end of the year.

I’ve taken a look at some of my unit opportunities but the problem is that the actual system that will tell me what I am eligible to enrol into is down until late tomorrow. Monday is when we will meet with our supervisor to discuss what is going to happen  going forwards, and so I want to make sure I kind of have a game plan when we go in because of how quickly this needs to be resolved so I can earn my credit points on time. I’m hoping they’ll also communicate properly with the different faculties to make sure things like assignment extensions are considered. I really don’t want to go from one mess to the next.

I have an idea of what electives I might pick but I wanted to have three to fall back on and barely scraped together the two that I have. On such short notice, I’m really limited by what’s available this semester and what is actually relevant to me. I also can’t find a concise list of all of the units I can potentially enrol in as an elective, which is a bit of a pain.

Basically, I’m close to entering full panic mode, and it’s been a long time since I’ve had to do that. I’ve put my DND Campaign on hiatus and will more or less just waiting for it all to be resolved before I can seriously take up any of my non-uni-related projects. By that, I don’t mean that I’ll stop writing, I just don’t know how much time I’ll be able to dedicate to everything else while I’m stressed. Stress isn’t greatly conducive to making good work.

I’m hoping that everything just seems worse than it is and I’ll be posting here next week with a resolution and self-reflection on how anxious I was when I didn’t need to be. I’m hoping that I’m not getting myself worked up like I used to, but at the same time would probably prefer it all turning out fine and me just overreacting. I think it’s also because of my headaches and lethargy that I just feel like I’m being overwhelmed. I think I need a new pillow. I bought one of those good memory foam ones and though I feel that I don’t toss and turn as much, I feel like I’m always waking up with a headache.

Here’s a pupper.