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graculusAnother stupidly busy week is over and I'm catching up on my sleep and all the other things I ought to be doing...
Making progress (slow but steady) on my dissertation and it's suddenly feeling all a little too real. I can see it completely taking over my non-work life for the next six weeks as I've probably not done as much to date as I should have and the deadline is actually on the horizon now. So if I'm not around much between now and the middle of September, that's the reason, okay?
It's one particular bit of this that makes me want to stab myself in the eyes with a sharpened pencil - I feel like I know my subject inside and out, the relevant interviews are cracking on and the analysis of those isn't going to be a major problem, but I could care less about research design. Meh. Any advice/brickbats/platitudes accepted... ;)
But at least the forecast is for the weather to get back to a little more like normal English summer next week. I know, we're all terrible wusses who complain all the time and we don't know what real weather is, yadda yadda yadda, but none of us (and most of our buildings) aren't designed for this. Maybe if this is going to be more of the norm, at least the buildings will have to change to suit. All I know is that it's not much fun sitting in a relatively small meeting room with all the windows open, two fans whirring away and it's still too clammy to think properly.
In other news... nothing comes to mind, maybe more later.
Making progress (slow but steady) on my dissertation and it's suddenly feeling all a little too real. I can see it completely taking over my non-work life for the next six weeks as I've probably not done as much to date as I should have and the deadline is actually on the horizon now. So if I'm not around much between now and the middle of September, that's the reason, okay?
It's one particular bit of this that makes me want to stab myself in the eyes with a sharpened pencil - I feel like I know my subject inside and out, the relevant interviews are cracking on and the analysis of those isn't going to be a major problem, but I could care less about research design. Meh. Any advice/brickbats/platitudes accepted... ;)
But at least the forecast is for the weather to get back to a little more like normal English summer next week. I know, we're all terrible wusses who complain all the time and we don't know what real weather is, yadda yadda yadda, but none of us (and most of our buildings) aren't designed for this. Maybe if this is going to be more of the norm, at least the buildings will have to change to suit. All I know is that it's not much fun sitting in a relatively small meeting room with all the windows open, two fans whirring away and it's still too clammy to think properly.
In other news... nothing comes to mind, maybe more later.
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Date: 2006-07-29 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-29 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-29 02:36 pm (UTC)This summer is being extreme, we have the buildings ready and the proper skin tones but still feel it. I hope it gets better in the next weeks.
And well, hope let's Friday I can feel a bit of typical British weather in London. I want that!
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Date: 2006-07-29 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-31 02:14 am (UTC)You're allowed. 8-) This very hot and humid weather is also scarce where I live, and we are as equally unprepared for it. Why should I have a/c when I'd only use it a few weeks in the whole year? But those few weeks...oy.