rustonite Posted February 27, 2009 Posted February 27, 2009 my daily schedule at the moment: get up, check e-mail, take out the dog. eat something, shower, dress, check e-mail. pretend to work on my thesis while I wait for the mail to come. check e-mail. experience crushing disappointment over lack of grad school letters. check e-mail. mope for about an hour. check e-mail. get mad at myself for moping, actually work on the thesis. check e-mail. walk the dog. check e-mail. make dinner, eat, check e-mail. check e-mail, go to bed. sound about right?
cath2024 Posted February 27, 2009 Posted February 27, 2009 Yes! I, too, am pretending/trying to write a thesis (at night/on the weekends, ugh.) while checking these boards and emails constantly. At least when I'm at work I'm getting paid while I worry. Multitasking!
optimisticPOLITICS Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Amen to the worry while getting paid. Am glad I now have a new job working with kids they are a big distraction
was1984 Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Wake up. Look for a job for 3-4 hours*. Read a book for about 6 hours*. Hang out with my girlfriend after she gets off work for 4 hours*. Read for 2 more hours*. Go to sleep. *additionally check email every 2-3 minutes
miratrix Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Am glad I now have a new job working with kids they are a big distraction Me too, but sometimes at work I'm like "thank goodness I'm going to grad school." I may not be cut out to work with kids, at least small ones.
ridgey Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Tues-Fri: Wake up ~6 am, check email and applications and gradcafe obsessively, alternating with news/weather forecast/other useful things. Planned time on internet first thing in the morning: 30 min; actual time: has been known to be up to 6 hours. Shower, dress, breakfast, go to uni: sometime between 6.30 and 12. On computer at uni: between 7.30 am (variable) and 2.30 pm, with start time variable. During this time I am supposedly writing my thesis, but as you may suppose, large chunks of this time dissappear as I check email/applications/gradcafe. 2.30-5.00pm: research in archives. No internet access here. Some solid work, though mostly making notes for future work - "look up XYZ" "Compare doc A to doc B". 5.00-630pm: Back to office. Plan to work till home time. Open appropriate word documents, but more of the normalchecking application related things (despite it being ~midnight in decision making time zone. Feel guilty for lack of work, take lots of reading home to make up for it. 7-7.30: Watch incredibly trashy local soap. 7.30pm - midnight: Have appropriate books/journal articles strewn around, while watching TV/talkiing to flatties/wasting time on internet/otherwise not accomplishing anything. Get ready for bed, ponder staying up a couple more hours until it's business hours in the US. Saturday: as above, but starting later, and without archives. Sun-Mon: similar to other days, but with less disappointment at not receiving any results from appplications. Eagerly cancel going to archives/writing thesis during the day to do social things. BUT, decline other social things, especially evening/weekends, to work on thesis, then don't do any work but instead the inevitable emai/application/gradcafe results obsession.
rustonite Posted March 3, 2009 Author Posted March 3, 2009 just turned in a thesis draft, so now I don't even have that to do. I have a feeling my house is about to get EXTREMELY clean, unless I hear soon.
cath2024 Posted March 3, 2009 Posted March 3, 2009 just turned in a thesis draft, so now I don't even have that to do. I have a feeling my house is about to get EXTREMELY clean, unless I hear soon. You can work on my thesis draft now?
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