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May. 26th, 2012 11:07 amToday is Sorry Day. It's also a day when many friends are hurting. I wanted to post about one and about the other but, just as on Yom HaShoah, it all become too much for me. I'm thinking of all of you.
May. 26th, 2012
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May. 26th, 2012 11:33 amI have proof positive of procrastination. My last task for this morning is to enter examples from one particular book into one particualr essay. Maybe 45 minutes work all up. Except that I worried about where the book was and didn't start. The book was hiding in plain sight on my desk. I had thoughtfully prepared for this morning before the high pain days and before the form from hell intervened.
Now all I need to do is to find my reading glasses...
Now all I need to do is to find my reading glasses...
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May. 26th, 2012 11:51 amI've given up on trying to be terribly literary today. If I must work and I must hurt and I must do both at once, then I am going to my happy place to work. Medieval literature and language and legends, FTW. Not the work I had planned to do today, but the important thing is that I get a full day's work done and don't fall further behind, isn't it? And the Beast has to get finished, doesn't it? And maybe I get to make jokes about Mr Soup (should he really be Sir Soup?).
I can't make my Star Trek joke - I've made it three times this week, which is (as I told my poor students) a record. It's not a good enough joke to make four times, or, alas, a bad enough joke to make four times. I probably should have stopped at two...
I can't make my Star Trek joke - I've made it three times this week, which is (as I told my poor students) a record. It's not a good enough joke to make four times, or, alas, a bad enough joke to make four times. I probably should have stopped at two...
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May. 26th, 2012 05:07 pmI've spent the afternoon in the Middle Ages and so am all caught up with that side of things until...(wait for it)...Tuesday. Or maybe next weekend. It depends. All of this was stuff I should have done weeks ago, but life intervened and my partner-in-deadlines cut me some slack.
The rest of the day is one of the articles that have now become a bit worrying. I still have time to do them, but it's cutting it tighter than I normally would. Once they're done, though, I'll be much less fretted. Each time something else went wrong, I put off working on one of them. I've done most of the research for two and about 1/3 of the research for the third, but they were caught up in the emotions of the last two months and in the fatigue of the last two months and so they have the flavour of the last two months, as well.
When these three are done to the satisfaction of editors, I shall be on the home stretch for the doctorate, too. They're the only things between me and that last few months. This, too, worries me.
What I really need is a writing buddy. Someone with lots of deadlines over the next two weeks. Someone who needs nagging and is willing to nag, from now until 7 June. Any volunteers?
The rest of the day is one of the articles that have now become a bit worrying. I still have time to do them, but it's cutting it tighter than I normally would. Once they're done, though, I'll be much less fretted. Each time something else went wrong, I put off working on one of them. I've done most of the research for two and about 1/3 of the research for the third, but they were caught up in the emotions of the last two months and in the fatigue of the last two months and so they have the flavour of the last two months, as well.
When these three are done to the satisfaction of editors, I shall be on the home stretch for the doctorate, too. They're the only things between me and that last few months. This, too, worries me.
What I really need is a writing buddy. Someone with lots of deadlines over the next two weeks. Someone who needs nagging and is willing to nag, from now until 7 June. Any volunteers?