Thesis

Today I was supposed to start writing my thesis. Actually I was supposed to start writing on the 14th April when my lecturer gave me the go-ahead, but I decided to take a little ‘break’ until it was officially approved by the Board. My little break followed pretty much the same pattern as a normal day of work, i.e. get in late, scourge the internet for cool stuff and head out to lunch early. Sadly, my little holiday is up, and today is the day.

However, when I came into work this morning, I had an annoying beaurocratic surprise waiting for me in the form of a whole invigilation timetable. Bleugh. This gave me about 15 minutes of working out exactly when and what, and then about 45 minutes of bitching and complaining to my colleague about the total unfairness of it all. This brings us to 10h00, a mere 15 minutes before I had to leave for my hair appointment. I managed to write one, very badly constructed, sentence. It uses little punctuation and pretty much doesn’t have a subject. Where the hell do you start to write a 180-page thesis? I am completely stumped.

After my (hair-raising) haircut (I am being a cheap little Jew about luxuries this month and paid a minimal amount for a haircut from a trainee hairdresser), the colleague and I had missed our daily coffee break and so HAD to walk all the way to the local to buy some. (This is a classic example of the ‘procrastination cup’ as in my last blog post). All of these critically important activities managed to fill the day and bring us to now (12h30). Since it’s only half an hour until lunch, I see little point in writing my thesis since I don’t really have any focus/motivation/pressure/will to do anything with brainpower. In any case, my farm needs harvesting and I have 13 games in FB scrabble in which to make a move.

Did I mention that I do all of this while at work? Since I have no work, this is what my department pays me to do. It’s a tough life.

In other news, my hair looks great! Check out Head Boys salon for appointments…