Just came back from a jog around the neighborhood. Have been having a mental block for the past two days. I seem to be getting this quite often recently. I have papers due every other Thursday and the mental block happens the moment I hand in the paper. The weekend before the paper is due, I’ll be very organized and plan for the week, feel really psyched with all the experiments and work that I get done early of the week, pia1 really hard on Wednesday to get the paper to be as best as I could, hand it in on Thursday and what happen to my plans for the rest of the week? Simply a scribble in my organizer. Have not managed to read a single paper since Thursday and the huge pile of papers on my desk is not looking any appealing at all. But at least, I still have the heart to keep my experiments going.
Thankfully, now that I just had a boost of energy from the jog, I actually do feel better and more motivated to start reading again. If everything goes right, I might actually be able to finish 3 papers tonight and finish meaning not merely reading but critically review the paper too. But I still can’t suppress the feeling that I need to do something fun, something crazy, something risky or just something besides reviewing people’s articles. It’s been such a long time since I do something unplanned and completely out of my schedule. Furthermore, the weather is warming up and all the better reason to get some fun out of it.
pia = I don't really know what it means but it's a Hokkien word that is commonly used to describe "hardworking at the last moment". There might be a proper meaning for this but at least that's how I use it. :P
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