Categories: random
Tags: internet
Date: 23 May 2010 21:13:45
I am thinking about cutting down my internet use for a bit. I had intended to do some work on my current thesis chapter today, and instead I have slept (3 hours in the afternoon, whoops, having not got up till gone 11), done some washing and fannied about on the internet. And that's it. This prompted the following conversation this evening:
Me: This thesis feels like it's never-ending.
HD: That's because you never do anything on it.
So here's the deal. I will go online every evening to check emails and to help my students through these last few weeks up to their exam. I will make an exception in a couple of weeks' time as it is my birthday and go onto the usual sites I spend far too long on as people are often lovely and send birthday greetings and I don't want to be rude :) I will go online if I need to book or order things, but NOT surf while I'm doing that. I will do this for 2 weeks initially, starting tomorrow (so that should take me up to and including Sunday 6th June), and review it after that. In those 2 weeks I will find other ways to relax (in particular reading), and concentrate much more on my thesis. And I'll tidy up (maybe).
If anything blog-worthy happens and I really really have to write it up, I'll do it in Word and post it up in a couple of weeks. Only exceptions are dire emergencies, but I'm not planning on having any of those.
Just to slip in before the deadline, for those of a praying disposition HD has a job interview coming up soon.