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working on working
Sep. 30th, 2008 03:42 pmMy advisor once noted, in her characteristic fashion, that my stress response appears to be threshold-based: my transition from an unstressed state to a stressed state is fairly abrupt. Fortunately, it takes a pretty sizeable stimulus to make me switch states. But it's still troubling to find myself making the switch.
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Ever since teaching yesterday afternoon, I've had a low-grade headache that has been coming and going. It's not making me inclined to do much work. I also have to wonder if my lack of working (it's not exactly lack of motivation) is also tied to having completed a substantial amount of work over the past two days, first proposal-writing work and then teaching work. I'm probably just unconsciously marshaling for another intense spate because I have a feeling that I'm going to want to do another intensive round of revisions on my proposal (and then perhaps at last I'll send it around to my committee, with just about a month until D-day). Meanwhile, my gardening plans are daily transforming into castles in the air. I should hire someone to do grad school for me so that I can garden instead. Except that I like grad school, too. The overachiever's dilemma.
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Meh.
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Ever since teaching yesterday afternoon, I've had a low-grade headache that has been coming and going. It's not making me inclined to do much work. I also have to wonder if my lack of working (it's not exactly lack of motivation) is also tied to having completed a substantial amount of work over the past two days, first proposal-writing work and then teaching work. I'm probably just unconsciously marshaling for another intense spate because I have a feeling that I'm going to want to do another intensive round of revisions on my proposal (and then perhaps at last I'll send it around to my committee, with just about a month until D-day). Meanwhile, my gardening plans are daily transforming into castles in the air. I should hire someone to do grad school for me so that I can garden instead. Except that I like grad school, too. The overachiever's dilemma.
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Meh.
