There is something about getting up early and writing that always makes me feel virtuous. I like the way it gets the guilt of not-writing out of the way early, the way it sets the tone for the rest of the day (in which I think about writing in moderation, rather than obsessing about...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Stress ’
Morning
In which I overcomplicate the notion of furniture.
Allow me to introduce you to the great redundancy in my flat: The redundancy, for the curious, comes in couch form (and possibly the desk in the lower foreground since I’ve already got two others, but the desk is awesome and thus excused from such considerations). My lounge room can seat six or seven...
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Thesis Update
Just dropping in with the following reports: The official wordcount (aka words actually in draft documents, rather than random notes) just topped 10k. I have, for the first time since I started the damn thing, actually finished a chapter. I have, for the first time since I started the damn thing, actually got a...
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This is my Monday
I hate it when things creep up on me, but I like having a full to-do list that I can work through. On today’s list: Get a big chunk of wordage done on the thesis draft – last week saw things start lagging behind again, and I really shouldn’t let that become a habit....
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In which I am trivial and know it…
I think my office may be under some kind of curse. I say this because I’ve just lost my second office chair in the space of a few months to breakage and this one was brand new (unlike the previous chair, which was a mega-comfy seventies steel-and-vinyl job that I’m pretty sure my parents liberated...
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Oh baby, here comes the fear again
It starts with what may well be the most dangerous question in the world right now: “So Peter, ”what happens after you finish your thesis?” Were I the melodramatic type, or at least the type in the mood for a different kind of melodrama than I’m running on right now, today’s entry would consist entirely of a...
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Because ambivalence wasn’t working for me…
So last night I ran down the list: - Feeling like there’s too much to do, yet doing nothing of note? Check. - Spawning new projects I just have to do because “they’re so damn cool” instead of finishing old projects? Check - Not sleeping? Check. - Avoiding blog-posting? Check. - Resurgence of interest...
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