Back in the saddle again...or not...

I got up at 9am today, giving myself a reasonably gentle start to the day by telling myself I'd work really hard on my dissertation all day in return. So far I've done a couple of hundred words and it's taken me about two hours. Perhaps working at home isn't for me any more. Maybe it's time to venture to the library - in my mind the noisiest, must distracting place one can work.


I've finished my introduction, or think I have until I meet with my advisor and am told it needs to be much more detailed. Now I need to start close annotation and analysis. It's not that it's hard, in fact it's really simple and made all the more easy by the fact that I love the topic I've chosen: the role of food in literature. Still, I'm sitting here in my little work space wandering back and forth to the kitchen, aimlessly looking in the fridge, making cups of coffee I don't really want and staring out of the window. Now I find myself blogging. What's wrong with me?!

I'm still waiting for a call from Ronnie the builder about him coming to check out the wall. I hate waiting for people to call. In my experience they never do and I find myself harassing them instead. It's just that getting this fixed as soon as possible is only important to me and I want it to be important to everyone involved so that it gets done.

Tonight I'm going to my friend Martin's to watch some Deadwood and do some knitting. It'll hopefully be the perfect escape from work and wall related stresses.

Tomorrow is my busiest day of the week: one two hour seminar, a lecture, an ALG (autonomous learning group or as we know it - meet for a coffee and talk about books) then I'm catching the train to Manchester to see Ali. All the more reason to get more work done NOW!

Perhaps I'll go make some lunch and see if I'm more inspired on a full stomach...

Update 1.24pm:
I've just come off the phone with Ronnie the builder and they've agreed to do things my way!! Work on the wall begins on Tuesday and by the sounds of it they're aiming to be all done and dusted super quick. All I have to do is have my possessions shifted into other parts of the flat and be ready for them to start at 8am. Hurray!!!!

Now back to my dissertation...