I should get back to work
Oct. 3rd, 2006 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitBesides Monday afternoon, I did not do any work on my thesis this past week. None. At all. A few things came up and I ended up spending a lot of time in conversations with people (both online and real life) and whatever work I did do was either my Historical Archaeology homework, random errands, or learning mincha.
Luckily, Dr. Schuyler only assigned HW to the 3 grad students in our class [of 5]. Every week we have a reading, split up into sections for each person to cover and tell the class about (thus making us not have to read the other sectcions though ideally we should.) And mincha is over. And most of my random errands are done, and the rest I can use as procrastinatory tools. But this means I have to make up for my severe lack of thesisizing.
So if I can manage it (yeah, right) I'm going to try to stay off of IM until I've done a significant amount of work. Maybe I won't sign on until tonight. I'll still check e-mail, and I'll try to avoid LJ after I finish this post. But this is all without a vow, since I just spent a holiday repenting for all the vows that I've broken, and have anulled all the old ones (though many still exist, such as my vow to finish the kippah by a certain date). So it would be pretty silly of me to take on new vows at the very beginning of a new year.
(Oh, and I forgot to put in the YK post that OCP nuisach is slightly different from CJC nuisach. But similar enough to be confusing if I'm practicing mincha in my head along with the current davening when it overlaps. Totally not cool. But I was fine since I knew the first part really well, and then it was just continuing with the same tune. I like the CJC one better for the most part. It involves a lot of ending on the 1 of the scale in between phrases. And there's the little part that sounds like part of "on my own." (it would be the notes for the words "beside me") The Les Mis trop is what I called it. (There's also the verses of Baruch kEl Elyon that start with another Les Mis tune- the 3rd to last and second to last tunes. And there's a lecha dodi where the first line of every verse has the notes from a "Phantom of the Opera" song.)OCP had a lot more things in minor, and less embelishments. It probably was also a lot easier to learn/fake. Oh well. As long as I have the shiny Kaddish Shalem ending, I'm happy.)
Ok. That's it. Goodbye online world! (Hello, thesis!)
Luckily, Dr. Schuyler only assigned HW to the 3 grad students in our class [of 5]. Every week we have a reading, split up into sections for each person to cover and tell the class about (thus making us not have to read the other sectcions though ideally we should.) And mincha is over. And most of my random errands are done, and the rest I can use as procrastinatory tools. But this means I have to make up for my severe lack of thesisizing.
So if I can manage it (yeah, right) I'm going to try to stay off of IM until I've done a significant amount of work. Maybe I won't sign on until tonight. I'll still check e-mail, and I'll try to avoid LJ after I finish this post. But this is all without a vow, since I just spent a holiday repenting for all the vows that I've broken, and have anulled all the old ones (though many still exist, such as my vow to finish the kippah by a certain date). So it would be pretty silly of me to take on new vows at the very beginning of a new year.
(Oh, and I forgot to put in the YK post that OCP nuisach is slightly different from CJC nuisach. But similar enough to be confusing if I'm practicing mincha in my head along with the current davening when it overlaps. Totally not cool. But I was fine since I knew the first part really well, and then it was just continuing with the same tune. I like the CJC one better for the most part. It involves a lot of ending on the 1 of the scale in between phrases. And there's the little part that sounds like part of "on my own." (it would be the notes for the words "beside me") The Les Mis trop is what I called it. (There's also the verses of Baruch kEl Elyon that start with another Les Mis tune- the 3rd to last and second to last tunes. And there's a lecha dodi where the first line of every verse has the notes from a "Phantom of the Opera" song.)OCP had a lot more things in minor, and less embelishments. It probably was also a lot easier to learn/fake. Oh well. As long as I have the shiny Kaddish Shalem ending, I'm happy.)
Ok. That's it. Goodbye online world! (Hello, thesis!)
