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Date: 23 April 2004 10:54:14
Am having a major revision trauma - my local Tesco didn't have any rooibos teabags this week, I'm about to run out and I really don't have the time to go and hunt for alternative stockists. Usually during revision I drink so much of the stuff it's coming out of my ears, how on earth am I going to manage? I guess I'll just have to nip down to the corner shop and eat some chocolate instead. Talking of which, the ‘one choc bar a day' thing hasn't quite worked out this week. And this morning I still weighed 73.5kg. But I think having an exam coming up constitutes acceptable extenuating circumstances.
I also now have a new source of distraction from revision, which will be oh so familiar to Open University students the world over. Namely, the course materials for my next module (the dissertation) arrived this morning. Why on earth should I spend all day wading through the course materials that after 6 months I'm heartily sick of when I've got all this stuff to read for a course which will be so much more interesting and for which I'll maintain my enthusiasm right through till the end (remind me in 4 months' time that I said this :D ).
I've factored in procrastination time this morning (I'm nothing if not a realist, I'll procrastinate whether I plan for it or not, at least this way I'll feel less guilty about it) but it will (mostly) be constructive procrastination. I need to contact some research people at work to try and push forward applying for ethical approval prior to the main research guy coming back from holiday, also I will call the builders' merchants to try and arrange for some gravel to be delivered so that I can blitz the garden when I'm off again in a couple of weeks. Oh and I've allowed myself 10 minutes to nip out and buy some chocolate...