A small hobbity break
Dec. 15th, 2006 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitI've been in Starbuck's since 10pm, and I have an hour until it closes (and about an hour left of battery on my laptop.) So I'm not sure if I'll work more afterwards or go to bed. I'm considering pulling an all-nighter to get this section done, even if I am sacrificing my sleep schedule. Shabbat will fix that.
Since I've been writing for 3 hours, I'm feeling a bit less stressed. Granted, this section is still going painfully slowly (like maybe I've added 2 pages to it) but I'm almost done with the materials for the hasmonean stuff. I realized that I can get away with not doing Tzippori tonight, since that article is on my computer and not in a GINORMOUS BOOK OF DOOM.
As a variation of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maric23's idea of measuring my thesis by the weight of my sources, I was thinking of measuring it in chocolate needed or cups of coffee/other caffinated beverages. I could also document the hours spent on it. I'm too lazy to do any of these, though. I have enough trouble finishing the work I actually need to do.
I'm feeling less stressed than I was a few hours ago. (Thanks for calling me,moss_raven.) Though my back hurts now from sitting at the laptop, stooped over. Maybe at 2 when I relocate, I'll take a short knitting break.
I've also been listening to music while working. This was Jenny's suggestion. It's actually helping. I think when I finish for the night I'll send her an e-mail thanking her. She took a half hour out of her busy deadliney schedule to help me get back on track with the writing of this section.
I still hate writing it, though. It seemed so straightforward, but then it turned out to be way harder than I expected it to be. It's a lot of tedious typing of details, and then interpretations that I don't feel qualified to make. And I haven't gotten anywhere near the end part where I compare the 3 sites. And I'm not sure what Tzippori will add to my argument, if anything. I still want to use Qumran. But Ben made me take it out.
Part of me thinks I should go to bed now. But I did that the last time I was faced with this section, instead of working through it. This is a 10-20 page paper. There's no reason why I shouldn't pull an all-nighter like I used to do. Maybe I'm getting too old for all-nighters. That's me, Rachel the crazy old lady with 14 cats, who knits on the front porch and yells at the neighbours' kids for being rowdy and shakes her patiche at everyone.
I'm sure I'll feel a great weight lifted when I have this section done. And Ben is definitely buying me caffeine at tomorrow's thesis meeting.
Ok. I've wasted enough time. Back to work for those last 45 minutes!!!
Since I've been writing for 3 hours, I'm feeling a bit less stressed. Granted, this section is still going painfully slowly (like maybe I've added 2 pages to it) but I'm almost done with the materials for the hasmonean stuff. I realized that I can get away with not doing Tzippori tonight, since that article is on my computer and not in a GINORMOUS BOOK OF DOOM.
As a variation of
maric23's idea of measuring my thesis by the weight of my sources, I was thinking of measuring it in chocolate needed or cups of coffee/other caffinated beverages. I could also document the hours spent on it. I'm too lazy to do any of these, though. I have enough trouble finishing the work I actually need to do.I'm feeling less stressed than I was a few hours ago. (Thanks for calling me,
moss_raven.) Though my back hurts now from sitting at the laptop, stooped over. Maybe at 2 when I relocate, I'll take a short knitting break.I've also been listening to music while working. This was Jenny's suggestion. It's actually helping. I think when I finish for the night I'll send her an e-mail thanking her. She took a half hour out of her busy deadliney schedule to help me get back on track with the writing of this section.
I still hate writing it, though. It seemed so straightforward, but then it turned out to be way harder than I expected it to be. It's a lot of tedious typing of details, and then interpretations that I don't feel qualified to make. And I haven't gotten anywhere near the end part where I compare the 3 sites. And I'm not sure what Tzippori will add to my argument, if anything. I still want to use Qumran. But Ben made me take it out.
Part of me thinks I should go to bed now. But I did that the last time I was faced with this section, instead of working through it. This is a 10-20 page paper. There's no reason why I shouldn't pull an all-nighter like I used to do. Maybe I'm getting too old for all-nighters. That's me, Rachel the crazy old lady with 14 cats, who knits on the front porch and yells at the neighbours' kids for being rowdy and shakes her patiche at everyone.
I'm sure I'll feel a great weight lifted when I have this section done. And Ben is definitely buying me caffeine at tomorrow's thesis meeting.
Ok. I've wasted enough time. Back to work for those last 45 minutes!!!
