i have a tuesday deadline & it is rubbish.
i like friday deadlines too because normally i do all work in weekdays. i hardly ever do any work during weekends.
blah blah. should be doing work now, obviously.
I'm going to be ok, all I have to do is write another essay tommorrow then I'm done well, that and the dissertation proposal, but when you consider that it isn't assessed, I just need to do it in order to enter an exam I can write something fairly basic and then brush it up over easter.
Random radio ___________This spiral
Static on tv ____________Has worn a groove so deep
Losing count of _________Can’t climb out
All the days and weeks ___Pathetic, painful need
Work is not going well. Hardly achieved anything in the last couple of hours. In fact, achieved nothing for the last two hours.
I don't want to keep taking breaks because I can't guarantee I'll actually get back to work. Maybe just 10 minutes to drink my tea and smoke a rolly. As long as I don't get too comfy . . .
7th July 2007
Hope is the feeling you have, that the feeling you have isn't permanent. (Jean Kerr)
Have started putting my essay together properly. I had 3,800 words. I now have 2,900 in the two final documents. I'm trying to finish the other sections off and find ways to make them link but it's not looking good. There's a whole section that's in the final copy as well which I think is just too detailed so I'll probably have to lose some stuff from there. I got really complacent when I realised I could get away with only doing another 300 words.
So now I have a long night ahead of me with caffeine, nicotine, feminism, Freud and Foucault. Oh joy. I know the optimum time for me to work is after 2am too - less distraction because everyone else is asleep, there's no road noise (I live on a main road and the noise can be really distracting at times), there's nothing good on TV. And I sort of realise that if I'm staying up all night to finish a piece of work it must be really important so I get worried enough to get on with it. I'm trying to convince myself it's due tomorrow but I keep remembering that it's not due till Tuesday. I know that's only one extra day but it's nearly 24 extra hours, a lot can get done in that time.
Anyway, I'm gonna go make a coffee then get back to work. Anyone else still awake and working?
EDIT:
I take it no one else is still up then? Lol!
Am at 3, 457 words. I want to try to get another 200 or so done before I go to sleep so there isn't loads left to do tomorrow. Well, ideally I want to get it all done except a conclusion but I don't think that'll happen.
I have a lecture at 10 and am debating whether to stay awake and go, or just go to bed and get up around midday to finish my essay. I'm pretty tired and it's a two hour lecture which looks boring after the first 4 slides (I checked on Blackboard). I'd probably fall asleep. . . but then I haven't been to many of these lectures (2 out of 8 I think. Oops!) so I really ought to go.
I want to get my essay done by 8pm tomorrow so I can print it off before the library shuts at 9. I don't want to leave myself without enough time to get it finished before then. I know that 'deadline' is flexible, but it'll be so much stress getting it printed on Tuesday.
See how long I stay awake for and how much work I get done now. If I'm not achieving anything I might as well get some sleep.
[/procrastination]. Lol!
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7th July 2007
Hope is the feeling you have, that the feeling you have isn't permanent. (Jean Kerr)
oh i am having a debate with myself whether or not i should go to my seminar.
i really don't want my seminar leader to ask me about essays i haven't done.
it's raining now :( properly puring down... it's a 2 mile walk to uni... but if I don't go I don't get my hardship loan cheque which I need for rent... gah!
Was awake till 8am but got up to 4000 words. Only just woken up so I don't think I'm going to get it finished before 8 tonight but at least that was self-imposed deadline - essay's not due tilll 4pm tomorrow.
Everything's in one word document now though so at least it's easy to keep track of how much more I need to do.
Didn't make it to my lecture either. Feel a bit guilty about not going (it's my last week of lectures) but at least I got over 1000 words written last night so it was worth staying up.
Anyway, back to work. Can't wait till this is finished. Last essay of my degree. :)
7th July 2007
Hope is the feeling you have, that the feeling you have isn't permanent. (Jean Kerr)
i went to my seminar, gave us advice on our short answer questions so that was ace.
went to the library as feeling studious for a chnage, the whole netork has crashed and none of the computers work :P
so i couldnt even look up on the reading list what books i needed for my essay. which i have changed what i am doing it on for the fourth time :S
