Thesis spam (is back)

[shalna]

Today at noon I managed to pour my chicken soup all over the microwave oven and decided that was an omen trying to tell me that I shouldn't work on the thesis today. Yes, it made sense at the time.

Anyway, now as it's almost 10.30 pm I've braved myself to take a look at my corpus again. glenthebunny just pointed out how we have switched roles: he's doing

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[katzk]

I already hate the word "thesis". :\

Talking of music, I've been listening to old swing lately when writing. Played by orchestra. I don't have any actual jazz, but swing is quite close, isn't it?

[shalna]

Sorry about reminding you about the evil thing...

Yep, swing and big band stuff fall into the category of jazz too :) I'm terrible with labels and categories though.

[juonetar]

Jazz? I must try with modern jazz, the oldies bring me into the seduction mood, and that would be bad when writing. Essay/thesis really needs its own kin of music sometimes. When I really need energy for getting started I listen to Moulin Rouge soundtrack. And Cranberries works for me in any mood.

[shalna]

Hee, I like being on seduction mood when I write because that makes me feel confident. You should try to seduce your text ;)

Yep, I've also noticed the need for specific type of writing music for academic writing. Moulin Rouge would be great and I like Cranberries though I don't know if I'd like to write while listening to them. PotC soundtrack works for me for any kinds of writing or anything creative. It makes me feel happy, energetic and confident, maybe in a sort of "What would Jack Sparrow do?" kind of way. I need less of perfectionism and more of Jack Sparrow attitude in me, you know.

[juonetar]

Oh no, I can't seduce the academic text. I must beat it to submission. In scientific writing I often need classical music, and Bach and the barock music works for me well for theory and writing those long dull parts. But often I really need creative madness (or just energy) and then it's Moulin Rouge, Rammstein, Eminem, The Phantom Menace.

PotC soundtrack is really good in the way you described! Perfect also when you must do some unpleasant work. "Real" work - as it's called in Ostrobothnia - is often best to do without any music at all: when I still had a casette player in the tractor, though, I enjoyed listening to James Bond themes (really weird effect) and Eminem.

[shalna]

I've heard that many people use barock music as background music for similar things. It helps you to keep focused, I think.

"Real" work - as it's called in Ostrobothnia
:) Is it "oikeeta tyätä" or "kunnon tyätä" or something else?