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I am currently both very cold and quite sleepy, and prepared to admit to a causal relationship between the two (I think the "very cold" is causing the "sleepy"). But I am fighting the urge to hibernate with tea. It is probably the last tea I will have today, because the last of the milk supply is within hours of tipping over from the merely dodgy to the decidedly undrinkable.
I should probably have taken a leaf out of roommate J's book and gone for a late-afternoon run, but the prospect of taking off my clothes and changing into fewer clothes was just too daunting. Instead, I stayed in and read her latest issue of Runner's World. I will go tomorrow, when I will hopefully drag myself out of bed for the purpose, at a more timely hour than I managed today.
In any case, my project for the day, which I have been vaguely contemplating but not exactly tackling, is attempting to figure out a way to keep myself busy and productive for the rest of the academic year, which will feature neither deadlines nor external constraints on my time. I'm feeling enormously daunted by the unbroken ocean of work-leading-towards-dissertation - or as would perhaps be a better metaphor, the gigantic grindstone of work-leading-towards-dissertation, to which I am expected to apply my nose entirely on my own initiative. Eep. It's not entirely that I'm not getting anything done, because I've actually made quite a lot of progress at transcribing the charters I didn't have time to transcribe while I was in France, but I certainly don't feel like I'm getting anything done.
Of course non-teaching fellowship, cry me a river, etc., etc. But I don't want to waste my non-teaching fellowship floundering around in all the freedom!
Suggestions?
I should probably have taken a leaf out of roommate J's book and gone for a late-afternoon run, but the prospect of taking off my clothes and changing into fewer clothes was just too daunting. Instead, I stayed in and read her latest issue of Runner's World. I will go tomorrow, when I will hopefully drag myself out of bed for the purpose, at a more timely hour than I managed today.
In any case, my project for the day, which I have been vaguely contemplating but not exactly tackling, is attempting to figure out a way to keep myself busy and productive for the rest of the academic year, which will feature neither deadlines nor external constraints on my time. I'm feeling enormously daunted by the unbroken ocean of work-leading-towards-dissertation - or as would perhaps be a better metaphor, the gigantic grindstone of work-leading-towards-dissertation, to which I am expected to apply my nose entirely on my own initiative. Eep. It's not entirely that I'm not getting anything done, because I've actually made quite a lot of progress at transcribing the charters I didn't have time to transcribe while I was in France, but I certainly don't feel like I'm getting anything done.
Of course non-teaching fellowship, cry me a river, etc., etc. But I don't want to waste my non-teaching fellowship floundering around in all the freedom!
Suggestions?