Monday, September 28, 2009

Is this a bad sign?

Whenever I start thinking about any one of the following:
  1. ManuBeast*
  2. Dissertation**
  3. Status report***
one of the little voices in my head**** pipes up with "HATE!HATE!HATE!STAB!STAB!STAB!"***** before I even get a chance to congeal my thoughts into something productive. It doesn't ever say anything more helpful than that. I wouldn't mind so much if it could offer something constructive. The interjection without any followup though is a little disconcerting.

*which is lingering in draft form on GrAdvisor's desk
**which I will request permission to begin writing very very soon
*** and other bullshit that I need to submit to grad school in order to schedule a defense date
****Yes, there is more than one. This particular voice sounds like a deranged Fraggle.
*****I am so not making this up.

5 comments:

Samia said...

<333

chall said...

deep breaths, some exercise and then one day it will all be over and done with.

Good luck!

(i need some of that too, since my head is saying the same thing.... sort of... as soon as I think about those papers...)

JaneB said...

MY loudest little voice is chanting 'go home, go home, go home'... sigh. Stupid voice. And then there's the one going 'chocolatechocolatechocolate'...

lin said...

Hang in there! Can't you think of something to derail the voices, a really really really difficult math question, grocery list or something? Thinking (shortly, max. 15 minutes) of other not difficult things always stops my fretting fraggles :-)

Prof-like Substance said...

I'm pretty sure that means you are close to being done.