*circles ankle*
Jan. 26th, 2005 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhondacrockettWhyyyy do you huuurt? I haven't done anything to you! Why can't you behave yourselves like normal people's ankles do? >.<
I hate that I have to go down a flight of stairs to get to the toilet. It's fine during the day, but it's during the night and in the morning I'm worried about. My ankles never feel strong when I wake up from sleep. I have this horrible fear that I'm going to pitch head first over the bannister some day.
On the PhD front, I'm working on my vision chapter now. I expect that I shall be spotting and over-analysing vision references everywhere for the next while. It certainly happened when I was working on fortune. I've got six pages at the minute. That doesn't sound like much, but I spend a lot of time reconsidering, restructuring, adding in and taking away from my arguments as I go along, so it sure feels like a lot. I'm not panicked... yet. That situation may change when I meet Leon on Monday. What does alarm me at the minute is the work for the next two chapters after that: instruction and mystery. I haven't done any reading or research for either. I'm doing my reading for vision at the same time I'm writing the chapter - well, ok, not exactly the same time, I gave myself January to read and started writing just this week. And then I think, I've got a paper to give, a research trip to organise, a letter to send to get my funding extended, the vision chapter to write AND polish until no one can argue with it (consider that the fortune chapter is 43 pages long with plates and 38 pages without, and took me most of last year to get right), a form to send in for becoming a teaching assistant next academic year, and ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING ON LJ I SHOULD BE WORKING ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! *collapses*
... Of course, none of that means that I do get off LJ and do some work, it just means that I complain on LJ about the work I have to done all the more. Ah, the fickle ways of the human mind! Somehow it all feels doable while you're procrastinating. It's when you actually go to do it that it becomes impossible. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere. I think the lesson is to procrastinate more yay!
I hate that I have to go down a flight of stairs to get to the toilet. It's fine during the day, but it's during the night and in the morning I'm worried about. My ankles never feel strong when I wake up from sleep. I have this horrible fear that I'm going to pitch head first over the bannister some day.
On the PhD front, I'm working on my vision chapter now. I expect that I shall be spotting and over-analysing vision references everywhere for the next while. It certainly happened when I was working on fortune. I've got six pages at the minute. That doesn't sound like much, but I spend a lot of time reconsidering, restructuring, adding in and taking away from my arguments as I go along, so it sure feels like a lot. I'm not panicked... yet. That situation may change when I meet Leon on Monday. What does alarm me at the minute is the work for the next two chapters after that: instruction and mystery. I haven't done any reading or research for either. I'm doing my reading for vision at the same time I'm writing the chapter - well, ok, not exactly the same time, I gave myself January to read and started writing just this week. And then I think, I've got a paper to give, a research trip to organise, a letter to send to get my funding extended, the vision chapter to write AND polish until no one can argue with it (consider that the fortune chapter is 43 pages long with plates and 38 pages without, and took me most of last year to get right), a form to send in for becoming a teaching assistant next academic year, and ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING ON LJ I SHOULD BE WORKING ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! *collapses*
... Of course, none of that means that I do get off LJ and do some work, it just means that I complain on LJ about the work I have to done all the more. Ah, the fickle ways of the human mind! Somehow it all feels doable while you're procrastinating. It's when you actually go to do it that it becomes impossible. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere. I think the lesson is to procrastinate more yay!
