1 post tagged “spring break”
So as of the 22nd, I handed in a draft of my thesis to my advisor, who is reading it this week. It's Spring Break, and so the timing is all really confusing because I would have said that I'd be frantically writing all week (probably the smart thing to do) but instead I'm just sort of existing, doing nothing particularly productive, floating around. I worked at the Rock a few days this week, and Monday and Wednesday were spent mostly in bed sleeping, shopping, or playing Zoo Tycoon 2, which is a little bit of a bummer for Mac because I have to play it on the lowest graphics level or it spontaneously crashes, which was supposed to be fixed in version 1.1 but so wasn't...
I should have done a lot this week and instead I did basically nothing, which I'm currently justifying by the logic that it's Spring Break and I could be in Cancun or something and if I were there I'd be doing just as little school work.
Being half-done (that is, having a draft in but a draft that is drafty and very obviously needs more work and more research) on the thesis is a really odd half-state that doesn't suit me at all. I worked so ridiculously much on it for so many months, just plugging with a pot of tea and lots of stress, and now it's all sort of drifting away and I feel lonely and icky about it. It'll be nice to have comments so I can fix everything. I think tomorrow afternoon, after I get my homework for the week done, I'm going to just sit and read it (as devastating and depressing as that will inevitably be) and make a list of everything that needs to be fixed so I have a really good agenda of work. Because this week has been a lesson in how easily one can spend an entire afternoon playing computer games, how easily 2 hours can turn into 6 hours, how addicting it is. I forgot that time moves at the same breakneck speed whether you have stuff to do or not.
In that same vein, I'm graduating in 2 months, minus 3 days exactly. I'm going to Guatemala City to work in a lab from the end of June to the first week of August. (I'm flying home for my sister's wedding in July). After that, no fucking clue. The future's so bright I'm gonna hafta wear shades.
