IT bores me to death

I have found the cure for my insomnia!

It’s called Information Technology. Yes, the reason I’ve been silent lately is I’ve been doing an IT course which I have to finish by Friday.

And it is boring the pants off me. It has literally been sending me to sleep. It’s so dull and mind numbing. There are pages and pages of stuff on screen that I have to work through (which are set at a pace that even a snail would be twiddling his feet impatiently) that I have been quite literately falling asleep at my computer. After about 15 minutes my brain begins to switch off, my eyes glaze over and my head hits the keyboard.

Amazing. All those herbal pills and milky drinks and bangs to the head I’ve tried to cure my insomnia with and all I had to do was take an IT course. The only trouble is I don’t really fancy doing IT courses for the rest of my life. How dull would that be? I might become a technology geek and entertain my dinner guests with incredibly witty stories about how I solved a major technology meltdown by switching the computer off and then switching it back on again. (Yeah, the usual stuff technology geeks do.) Knowing my luck though, I’d probably end up dreaming about giant bullet points invading the earth or being buried alive by sheets of excel spreadsheets or being trapped inside a PowerPoint presentation with only Tom Cruise for company.

Anyway, all this excitement (yawns) means that whilst I’ve been getting some good sleep it’s major panic stations as I still have a tonne of work to do by Friday (that’s Friday as in TOMORROW) so as usual when it comes to exams I will using my favourite technique of flying by the seat of my pants. Unfortunately, technology is not a subject you can bullshit which poses me with a bit of a problem really.Hmm. Any ideas? Apart from failing? Sock it to me folks – I’m opening to any constructive ideas for cheating and blackmail.

Well that’s my news. Mrs T, Housewife Extraordinaire, is on the verge of being bored to death by a technology course. Only wish I’d taken that pole dancing one instead. I feel sure I’d get more jobs offers with a pole dancing qualification.

On the other hand… (looks down at thighs)…. maybe not.

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fordfocusmom says:

9 December 2011 at 11:34 PM

You put it very well, Mrs T. Boy, that IT course is stupifyingly, clunkingly dull. It should come with a warning: 'This course may replace your brain with mush but not enough mush to think that the certificate was worth it'. Ho hum.

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Jane Turley says:

9 December 2011 at 11:35 PM

Ho hum indeed FFM. My brain has yet to recover!!

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