Tags: procrastination, essays, resolutions, New Year, 2009, publication, PhD
Date: 06 January 2009 18:53:17
I knew there was a resolution I'd forgotten! But as I faced temptation today I remembered I'd better list it too!
* No non-work related internet during work hours.
I managed to procrastinate today by tidying up my bookshelves in the office and putting them into some kind of order (in my defence, it's needed doing for ages!). But apart from a large pile of articles that need filing, I think that will be the end of that particular procrastinatory exercise, and then I'm going to have to get down to some work as I'll have no more excuses. I can't even mark any more essays, as no more late ones have come in (this is unheard of, and probably why it is snowing throughout much of the UK - though not here (yet), ironically).
This week I shall mostly be doing some reading and preparation for a study day we are hosting on Friday for one of the special interest groups of the Association of People Who Study My Sort of Thing - I am co-facilitating one of the sessions and am feeling woefully underprepared. With good reason, I really am woefully underprepared. I shall also be making a start on turning my paper from last month's conference in Helsinki into an article as they are wanting to publish a selection of papers from the conference and I think it would do me good to get into the habit of writing for publication. I think that's the main reason why I'm tidying the office though - I'll be fine once I start, but it's just the starting that's so traumatic!