Had a placement, didn't have a placement...

So my placement got cancelled because it came to light that I don't have any of the required paperwork in Queensland. Up here, students have always needed to be provisionally registered to do clinical placements but not so in SA (though that has changed now because psychology will now have National Registration).

Anyway, I also need a blue card to work with kids and a Hep B vax (or immunity) to work in the health department.

All the waiting times were too uncertain so my placement got given to another student... and meanwhile I got going with organising all the paperwork.

Just when I was counting my blessings that the placement got cancelled because otherwise how would I ever get my thesis written up in time????......... they gave me another placement!! ARGH!!

So my only little window to get this stupid thesis done is the next two weeks before I start having to go to planning meetings etc etc.. and then however long it takes for my paperwork to come through. Because I can't actually start until I get that provisional registration.

If it takes 3-4 weeks I won't be complaining. I'm having little palpitations at the thought of how I will manage to do it all. My Literature Review AND my thesis are both due in... SEVEN WEEKS?! *faints*

In other news, Annabelle started at her new daycare. Not the one we went to look at because it turns out that she was as dissatisfied with that one as I was. So, long story short, we looked at a couple of others and picked a different one that was a bit more friendly. They call it "Pre-school" but really it's childcare with a pre-prep program. She kind of loves it but she is also very, very shy and nervous about being the new kid after having ruled the roost for so long in Adelaide. She has had a little cry most days she's been there. :( I hope she settles in quickly because it breaks my heart seeing that look of quiet panic on her face as I leave her in the mornings.

And of course the shop is back up and running. I was having some pretty major palpitations about that too, since it all came to a grinding halt while I was moving and then I had to outlay a heap of cash on more stock. I was actually awake at 3am wondering what the hell I was doing. But since sending out my last newsletter, sales have picked up again and I'm feeling a lot more confident that it might not send us completely broke. In fact.. I'm off to order more stock and run up some more debt. Hey... gotta spend money to make money. Right?