Only nine tasks left!

Today's post is not about the BAFTAs.

I am still working on getting all of my thoughts there to build in a logical order. I am also wondering whether blogging six days a week is really practical for me, largely because of school.

This is a school update.

I am currently working on my capstone, the last step of my Master's degree.

My capstone project involves gaps in the training for Licensed Clinical Social Workers on working with clients who have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. (Say that five times fast!)

I recently turned in the first of ten assignments over three classes toward this end. They all build upon each other, so you can't suddenly change course in the middle. I have felt some pressure over that, possibly at levels not consistent with logic.

I called it an assignment, but they are classified as performance assessments and one menu lists them as tasks. "Task" sounds like something much simpler on one level, but then on another level like part of a magical quest that will get your wish fulfilled. 

"Tasks" it is.

After I turned in this one, I immediately started doubting that it was specific enough. You use one section of it to start off the second task and some of the other parts of that seemed to require more complexity. 

I was hoping when I logged in Monday the evaluation would be done. It wasn't.

I started panicking and wrote to the instructor (who is not necessarily the person who evaluates it) going over what my concerns were and what I would have said if it were more specific and was I at least on the right track?

That was fairly late at night, so I wasn't expecting an answer until later today. However, I logged in early and saw that I had passed.

It was a little anticlimactic.

To be fair, the way I wrote it followed what I believed that task's rubric was asking for; I got nervous because I started looking at the next task.

Part of why I spent so long agonizing over the first task was because of how they all connect. Initially I was going to target LCSW students, probably at University of Kansas, and there was a good reason for that. However, there was going to be a human subjects component. Would I need to get approval through their guidelines? What it that took a long time? What if it went past June?

I am aware I am doing this to myself.

I am trying to strike a balance between focusing on the matter at hand while still paying some attention to what is coming, and trying not to freak out.

To showing up every day and dealing with my emotions, I must now add that additional element of not freaking out about the things that aren't happening yet.

I just need to do it all nine more times before June 30th! 

Related posts:

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2026/02/school-update.html