More procrastination
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oyceterI am now seven sentences into my thesis. This is kind of sad and pathetic. I feel as though I haven't really written anything academic for so long that now I'm out of the habit, which is just not true because Reading Period wasn't all that long ago. I also think that the problem is I can't quite divorce myself from the fact that this is my thesis. This stupid paper is supposed to represent the peak of my academic work here; it's supposed to break new ground, be insightful, well written, well organized, and extremely well thought out. And because of this, I find myself agonizing over every single sentence. If I write at this rate, I'll never be done in time. Maybe waking up (relatively) early tomorrow will help me get in the mood. Otherwise, I'll just push on stubbornly, disregarding bad sentences and lack of proof. Suddenly, starting to write this, I feel an urgent need to go to the library and get loads more research done, which is quite silly. No matter how much research I do, I'll always end up feeling this way, just because that's the way I do things.
It's ok. I can write ten pages by Monday. Really. How hard can this be? I managed to do thirty pages in one night once. Granted, they weren't very good pages, but still. And this is just a first draft, so I shouldn't be stressing over it this much. Guh. High expectations always leads to extremely bad writer's block for me. I should really just pretend that this is a silly paper for a class I'm PDF-ing, and the ten pages will be done in a flash. Yes. Good idea, me.
And now for something completely different... I will keep watching Alias for now, because there's an interesting new dynamic! Vaughn and Sydney's dad met for the first time, and whoo, very sparky. In that antagonistic way. Not slashy. Although...
So as of now, my favorite Alias character is without a doubt Jack Bristow. I have no idea who plays him, but whoever does is doing a pretty good job. He manages to be a cold, emotionless secret agent, a loving father, an uneasy subordinate, and a nervous mole all at the same time. It's quite nifty. I like Sloane a lot too right now... can see a great deal of potential for him. I do like Vaughn, but the writers aren't doing very much interesting with him. He's not all that conflicted, not even about Sydney. Obviously, he likes Sydney and considers her very valuable, and he isn't afraid to express that at all, as opposed to Jack, who seems to switch from Sydney's superior in SD-6 to her father to an old hand at spying in a blink of an eye. *sigh* If Sydney were just a little like Jack, the show would be so kickass.
I think I definitely have a thing for ambiguous characters with a cold streak in them... Jack Bristow, Wesley, Spike, etc. And very cool girl characters. Like Cordy used to be. I miss old Cordy so much.
Well. Too much procrastination for me. More writing shall commence tomorrow, when I move all my thesis stuff into the boy's room. I hate my laptop, which (hopefully) is currently being gutted by Toshiba.
It's ok. I can write ten pages by Monday. Really. How hard can this be? I managed to do thirty pages in one night once. Granted, they weren't very good pages, but still. And this is just a first draft, so I shouldn't be stressing over it this much. Guh. High expectations always leads to extremely bad writer's block for me. I should really just pretend that this is a silly paper for a class I'm PDF-ing, and the ten pages will be done in a flash. Yes. Good idea, me.
And now for something completely different... I will keep watching Alias for now, because there's an interesting new dynamic! Vaughn and Sydney's dad met for the first time, and whoo, very sparky. In that antagonistic way. Not slashy. Although...
So as of now, my favorite Alias character is without a doubt Jack Bristow. I have no idea who plays him, but whoever does is doing a pretty good job. He manages to be a cold, emotionless secret agent, a loving father, an uneasy subordinate, and a nervous mole all at the same time. It's quite nifty. I like Sloane a lot too right now... can see a great deal of potential for him. I do like Vaughn, but the writers aren't doing very much interesting with him. He's not all that conflicted, not even about Sydney. Obviously, he likes Sydney and considers her very valuable, and he isn't afraid to express that at all, as opposed to Jack, who seems to switch from Sydney's superior in SD-6 to her father to an old hand at spying in a blink of an eye. *sigh* If Sydney were just a little like Jack, the show would be so kickass.
I think I definitely have a thing for ambiguous characters with a cold streak in them... Jack Bristow, Wesley, Spike, etc. And very cool girl characters. Like Cordy used to be. I miss old Cordy so much.
Well. Too much procrastination for me. More writing shall commence tomorrow, when I move all my thesis stuff into the boy's room. I hate my laptop, which (hopefully) is currently being gutted by Toshiba.
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