Christmas and New Year and a bit of a whinge
Procrastination is soul destroying >.< I got fourteen books out of the library to bring home to start work on my essays/dissertation proposals and have I got anywhere? Nope. Am I likely to get anywhere? Nope. Hence the whinging. It's my own fault, of course, but if you can't have a self-indulgent moan on your livejournal, where can you? :P
I'm writing an essay for my post-colonial module on J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing. I like the topic and the books, I just... bleurgh. Partly it's Christmas, which is always a hard time to concentrate, but also it's being at the flat with mum and dad. We're in too close proximity. There are only two places I can sit at a table to work - either in mum's study (which sometimes works but not very often because I'm always working around her bits and bobs and I can never get comfortable), or in the living room (it has other people in it >.> What?? I'm naturally inclined to be a hermit, I can't concentrate on anything properly if someone else is there even if they ignore me). I was alright in the summer because I used to go out to work, but it's too cold and rainy to work outside at this time of year and I don't have the money to go to a coffee shop or similar (yes, that has other people in it too, but they're strangers and aren't expecting me to acknowledge that they exist). Whinge whinge whinge *headdesk*. I was hoping to get some work done this morning as my parents went out and I stayed in, but I had to do the dusting and the hoovering first (mum's condition for her doing my washing) and by the time I'd done that and set up my laptop ready to work they'd come back. Grrrrrrrr. Mind you, knowing my frame of mind regarding this essay I'd probably be finding reasons for not being able to concentrate wherever I was... *innocent face*
I just want a chunk of it done before I go back up to York on Wednesday! Otherwise timing is going to get incredibly tight. I've got this essay which is 5k and another 5k essay both due on the 11th, and then my dissertation proposal due on the 14th. I know I'll get it sorted but I don't even know what I'm doing for dissertation yet, which is kind of bugging me. A lot. Raaaaaage. *sigh* I don't know why I write posts like this, they just make me grumpier. :/
Don't feel obliged to read that, by the way - it's mostly for my benefit. :)
On another note, I had a brilliant Christmas! It was kind of low-key, which is weird, but although I wouldn't like it to be like that all the time it was nice for a change. I got some great presents, and I'm making a post about a particular birthday/christmas present when I get back to York. Exciting times! We're going up Tower 42 tonight to see the fireworks, so that'll be good fun.
If anyone's wondering what's happened to the Supernatural reviews, it's my fault because I (rather idiotically) left the ones I had to type up in York, so I couldn't get anywhere over the break. I was going to watch a load of episodes and build them up too, but my parents aren't fans and I've not really had the opportunity to watch any (I have them recorded on the telly).
So long story short, I'm getting a bit stressed out :/ Wish I wasn't. Last term was so busy, but Christmas hasn't really been a break. I think after the fourteenth I'll have a little rest before it all kicks off again, so I'm looking forward to that. Sorry to be such a downer at this time of year!
Maybe I'll go for a walk. It's a bit miserable out but I have a big coat for a reason. A walk, and my new Matilda soundtrack :D
Did you guys get/do anything exciting for Christmas?
I'm writing an essay for my post-colonial module on J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing. I like the topic and the books, I just... bleurgh. Partly it's Christmas, which is always a hard time to concentrate, but also it's being at the flat with mum and dad. We're in too close proximity. There are only two places I can sit at a table to work - either in mum's study (which sometimes works but not very often because I'm always working around her bits and bobs and I can never get comfortable), or in the living room (it has other people in it >.> What?? I'm naturally inclined to be a hermit, I can't concentrate on anything properly if someone else is there even if they ignore me). I was alright in the summer because I used to go out to work, but it's too cold and rainy to work outside at this time of year and I don't have the money to go to a coffee shop or similar (yes, that has other people in it too, but they're strangers and aren't expecting me to acknowledge that they exist). Whinge whinge whinge *headdesk*. I was hoping to get some work done this morning as my parents went out and I stayed in, but I had to do the dusting and the hoovering first (mum's condition for her doing my washing) and by the time I'd done that and set up my laptop ready to work they'd come back. Grrrrrrrr. Mind you, knowing my frame of mind regarding this essay I'd probably be finding reasons for not being able to concentrate wherever I was... *innocent face*
I just want a chunk of it done before I go back up to York on Wednesday! Otherwise timing is going to get incredibly tight. I've got this essay which is 5k and another 5k essay both due on the 11th, and then my dissertation proposal due on the 14th. I know I'll get it sorted but I don't even know what I'm doing for dissertation yet, which is kind of bugging me. A lot. Raaaaaage. *sigh* I don't know why I write posts like this, they just make me grumpier. :/
Don't feel obliged to read that, by the way - it's mostly for my benefit. :)
On another note, I had a brilliant Christmas! It was kind of low-key, which is weird, but although I wouldn't like it to be like that all the time it was nice for a change. I got some great presents, and I'm making a post about a particular birthday/christmas present when I get back to York. Exciting times! We're going up Tower 42 tonight to see the fireworks, so that'll be good fun.
If anyone's wondering what's happened to the Supernatural reviews, it's my fault because I (rather idiotically) left the ones I had to type up in York, so I couldn't get anywhere over the break. I was going to watch a load of episodes and build them up too, but my parents aren't fans and I've not really had the opportunity to watch any (I have them recorded on the telly).
So long story short, I'm getting a bit stressed out :/ Wish I wasn't. Last term was so busy, but Christmas hasn't really been a break. I think after the fourteenth I'll have a little rest before it all kicks off again, so I'm looking forward to that. Sorry to be such a downer at this time of year!
Maybe I'll go for a walk. It's a bit miserable out but I have a big coat for a reason. A walk, and my new Matilda soundtrack :D
Did you guys get/do anything exciting for Christmas?