I really want to go to all of your lectures in the series planned for this week and next. But I have this dissertation thing that won’t let me be. Who am I kidding, it’s no dissertation, it’s an improbable assemblage of paragraphs I’m calling a chapter. Which means it needs a lot of work. Which means I need a lot of time. It’s already difficult enough to account for my hours at the end of the day–anyone know how it got to be April already?–without taking a couple out to go learn about topics vaguely connected to my own, and to “network.” Perhaps you could record the thing and I could download it as a podcast? “Interacting with human beings” and “showing up at a predetermined time and place” are soooo passé.
Besides, I have to run today, and putting a 5-mile bike ride on top of that tries my patience. I’m all for working out, but if I add any more exercise on top of what I’m doing already, I’ll have to eat more. And that gets expensive, not to mention time-consuming. It’s bad enough that I have to take time out of my day to sleep, and now I have to double my time eating? Unacceptable.
So do me a favor. Postpone the lectures until I’m done with this f-ing chapter. That’s not too much to ask, is it?
Thanks,
Grimsaburger
*cringe*
Oh, the dreaded albatross that is the dissertation.
I have not forgotten the special circle of hell that it is.
It hung over my head for two years as I spent long periods hating myself for not writing and then chaining myself to the computer to work at 16 hour stretches.
I lived through it and have the piece of paper.
You’ll get there, Grims.
It hasn’t gotten to 16-hour stretches yet, but it is truly amazing how 10 hours can go by and I can’t tell you what I’ve done all day.
I did manage to come up with a way to get past the roadblock of the last week, though (during yesterday’s talk!!), and the rewrite of one 4-paragraph section turns out to work much better. Small victories are still victories…