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Apr. 29th, 2012 10:20 amMy Sunday morning has started with a bang, and I haven't had my coffee yet. I think I may delay coffee for a little, however, and do some more work. This is because I'm on a roll. I've done my end of the final edits for tomorrow's BiblioBuffet piece and I've asked another interview question for another. If I can read 300 pages towards a third, I shall have done a consistent set of work (all for BB!) and I shall have earned a big pot of coffee.
I didn't finish Chapter Six of my dissertation last night, but I worked my way through my many piles of paper. I now only have a baker's dozen difficult-to-deal-with-but-too-important-to-lose notes and a printout. I've given up on the 3,000 word ideal chapter and am now going for a 3,500 one. This is unusual for me. I currently have 4,500 words, though. I've managed to prune things down a lot, to have entered 60 sheets of notes and to only add 500 words, but that means that I have reduced my options in the final edit for I've been working on the impossible excrescences as I've gone.
No library visit for me today. I shall do it tomorrow. No visitors for me today, either. Today is heads-down work. I want to have crossed three things off my big must-do list by the time I sleep tonight. In an ideal world, I want to cross four things off.
I have a lot of new teaching coming up, and none of this is going to get done during the first two weeks. It's that simple.
In fact, I won't get concentrated dissertation time between Tuesday and late June. It's that simple. It's another of those busy times of year. This year, of course, I've managed to complicate things with all that dental work and maybe some more medical stuff*. The frantic mood will fade as Canberra reaches the second week of June. It always does. The end of the financial year affects the public sector so very much that things become quieter for the rest of us, very suddenly. And I get two weeks without teaching in July. This means that my current aim is to do everything I can before the big rush, so that I don't collapse at the seams during the rush and so that I can have a gorgeous time doing solid work when I get some quiet time.
*Only one medical appointment this week, however.
I didn't finish Chapter Six of my dissertation last night, but I worked my way through my many piles of paper. I now only have a baker's dozen difficult-to-deal-with-but-too-important-to-lose notes and a printout. I've given up on the 3,000 word ideal chapter and am now going for a 3,500 one. This is unusual for me. I currently have 4,500 words, though. I've managed to prune things down a lot, to have entered 60 sheets of notes and to only add 500 words, but that means that I have reduced my options in the final edit for I've been working on the impossible excrescences as I've gone.
No library visit for me today. I shall do it tomorrow. No visitors for me today, either. Today is heads-down work. I want to have crossed three things off my big must-do list by the time I sleep tonight. In an ideal world, I want to cross four things off.
I have a lot of new teaching coming up, and none of this is going to get done during the first two weeks. It's that simple.
In fact, I won't get concentrated dissertation time between Tuesday and late June. It's that simple. It's another of those busy times of year. This year, of course, I've managed to complicate things with all that dental work and maybe some more medical stuff*. The frantic mood will fade as Canberra reaches the second week of June. It always does. The end of the financial year affects the public sector so very much that things become quieter for the rest of us, very suddenly. And I get two weeks without teaching in July. This means that my current aim is to do everything I can before the big rush, so that I don't collapse at the seams during the rush and so that I can have a gorgeous time doing solid work when I get some quiet time.
*Only one medical appointment this week, however.