rustonite Posted February 27, 2009 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cath2024 Posted February 27, 2009 Share 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optimisticPOLITICS Posted February 28, 2009 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
was1984 Posted February 28, 2009 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miratrix Posted February 28, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridgey Posted February 28, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustonite Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cath2024 Posted March 3, 2009 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow#5 Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 by cath2024 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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