Semi-isolation days 52, 53
May. 6th, 2020 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricDone yesterday:
- German class. Didn't do too well, for various reasons.
- Some work on the paper draft, including a work session with MF in the afternoon
- sulking and navel gazing
- some reading
- made pesto, asparagus and Stuff pasta
Done today:
- a tiny bit of work on phd>book draft, lots of spacing out
- went for a run, found the shift to C25K wk 3 a step up but not impossible or even a right-at-my-limits challenge
- ate leftovers, acted like blobfish
- a small amount of sulking and navel gazing, 50% the same suspects as yesterday, 50% angst and impostor syndrome about giving A Trans Reading paper.
- around 3pm brain kicked in and i started focusing properly on the paper draft. I did stop to go for a run, but abandoned the rest of my to-do list and kept ploughing on until 9pm. I had trained myself OUT of this working pattern* during my MPhil, but after months of pandemic brain fog, I'll take it.
- draft still needs cutting down a bit, but I'll go in to work tomorrow and print it out and see about cutting it on Friday morning.
* I mean the late-afternoon-to-evening thing. Last minute conf papers were a thing until my PhD, although... they didn't normally feel like this, the 'time isn't real until there's no time left' thing. At least during the PhD I trained myself into thinking the last day before the conference is The Last Day, so now I have editing time.
- German class. Didn't do too well, for various reasons.
- Some work on the paper draft, including a work session with MF in the afternoon
- sulking and navel gazing
- some reading
- made pesto, asparagus and Stuff pasta
Done today:
- a tiny bit of work on phd>book draft, lots of spacing out
- went for a run, found the shift to C25K wk 3 a step up but not impossible or even a right-at-my-limits challenge
- ate leftovers, acted like blobfish
- a small amount of sulking and navel gazing, 50% the same suspects as yesterday, 50% angst and impostor syndrome about giving A Trans Reading paper.
- around 3pm brain kicked in and i started focusing properly on the paper draft. I did stop to go for a run, but abandoned the rest of my to-do list and kept ploughing on until 9pm. I had trained myself OUT of this working pattern* during my MPhil, but after months of pandemic brain fog, I'll take it.
- draft still needs cutting down a bit, but I'll go in to work tomorrow and print it out and see about cutting it on Friday morning.
* I mean the late-afternoon-to-evening thing. Last minute conf papers were a thing until my PhD, although... they didn't normally feel like this, the 'time isn't real until there's no time left' thing. At least during the PhD I trained myself into thinking the last day before the conference is The Last Day, so now I have editing time.