Tags: research, procrastination, cartoon, haircut, conference, PhD
Date: 28 April 2007 13:03:13
So, I have 3 sleeps left in Glasgow before heading down south and on to my PhD fieldwork adventure. That's not many.
The last couple of days I've been down south at a student-led workshop (I was part of the organising committee) about Doing A PhD, and it was rather good. Usually at these things there's at least one dud session where you can go to sleep, but all of them were really excellent (though I say so myself) and very stimulating - I'm currently enthusiastic about PhDs and being a researcher, although I'm sure the waxing and waning of that particular state of mind isn't over yet and there'll be some more waning in the pipeline before very long.
After sessions, people would quite often make a beeline for the speakers and engage them in conversation about things they'd said that had stimulated thought or whatever. After I'd spoken, someone came up to me and I thought "oh no, I hope she doesn't ask me something complicated I can't answer". Fortunately, what she said was
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......... "I really like your top". Clearly academic prowess is coursing through my veins.
And now I'm back. I have a work-in-progress seminar on Monday (my last day here) to do, it seemed like a really good idea when I volunteered to do it, but now I could do without it if I'm honest. But I've come into work (on Saturday, readers!) and have spent an hour surfing the interweb and not doing any work, so why should I let scary deadlines and country-leaving change the habit of a lifetime? I've also brought all of my library books back, so will have a marathon photocopying session at some point today as well, which will give me quite the sense of achievement (even though I won't read any of it for months, probably). I need to do a few practical bits and bobs, like buying a decent electrical adaptor, and another memory stick, but all I want to do really is sleep. Ain't gonna happen.
I did have a haircut this morning though. At last, I feel like I've found someone who I trust with scissors that close to my mop, and (for today at least) I feel quite glam. I'll look like the mad professor once I've slept on it tonight, so I guess I'd better make the most of it.
By the way, possibly the most useful discovery at the workshop this week - procrastination tool extraordinaire PhD Comics. Marvelous.