Tuesday

Biked into school today, as per usual on Tuesdays. There were actually four other students in the postgrad room today. It's always fun when that happens (often times it'll be just me and maybe one other person), because it means we'll usually start the morning with a little goss about various injustices we're facing at the hands of the university administration (after all, we are students, raging is practically part of the job). Today, it was about this article that was in the Sydney Morning Herald. Libraries throwing out books! Shameful!

I had a hard time mentally sitting still all day, so I spent some time on a few different tasks througout the day. I know I won't get much sympathy after sharing my typical Friday in my last post, but sometimes it's just soooo hard to sit and focus and (try to) be productive and creative all day long. To that end, I picked up a used copy of Stephen King's On Writing this past weekend. I think it might be helpful in this last stretch of my thesis to learn from successful writers how they manage to do it, day after day. And you can say what you want about King, but he does manage to crank them out, and some have been quite brilliant (c'mon - who doesn't still have nightmares from The Shining?!). I was inspired by Sarah Wilson's post on procrastination, which refers to anti-procrastination strategies used by writers and academics. I may just have to follow her lead and invest in one of those internet blockers...we'll see.

I'm getting increasingly sappy about the thought of leaving Sydney in July. I find myself trying to memorize all of my favourite sights and smells. Here's a pic to save myself from having to memorize this one:

The view from our balcony in January.