Thursday, May 27, 2010
Conference... s ?
The Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities is a huge multi conferences being hosted this year at Concordia University. 9000+ delegates from across Canada in the related fields. 78+ umbrella conferences. Book Publishers. And cultural films and performances and discussions. It is all very exciting. I speak about my RA research on SOTL on Monday morning. In the meantime, I am volunteering for the CSSE.
My feet are sore from today's volunteering. But I loved it.
Tonight I do some catch up and that includes catching up on sleep.
- finish laundry
- call car rental places
- finish tweaking my presentation
- dishes? ugh...
- and dinner
Hmmm... I have not had a normal meal in days from the franticness then the heat. Yesterday I was too nauseous to eat from the heat. Today is nice... I will make something nice for dinner to treat the husband.
My feet are sore from today's volunteering. But I loved it.
Tonight I do some catch up and that includes catching up on sleep.
- finish laundry
- call car rental places
- finish tweaking my presentation
- dishes? ugh...
- and dinner
Hmmm... I have not had a normal meal in days from the franticness then the heat. Yesterday I was too nauseous to eat from the heat. Today is nice... I will make something nice for dinner to treat the husband.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Leonine
How do you get a Leo do do more and do better? stroke their ego a little so that they develop a total craving for more praise and desperately do everything they can to get it.
I had my ego stroked Monday. People like my fanfic.
Almost done the preliminary report for the conference. I have to be done by 2pm.
*frantically writes more*
A/C is installed thank the gods and all that is holy... especially the god Freon.
I had my ego stroked Monday. People like my fanfic.
Almost done the preliminary report for the conference. I have to be done by 2pm.
*frantically writes more*
A/C is installed thank the gods and all that is holy... especially the god Freon.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
*reboot*
That is what today was all about. Why? because yesterday was a *fail* day and last night a ... *seeks politically correct terminology and fail... many apologies* Jerry's kid escapee went screaming and yelling and kicking cars from 3:30-6:00am with what looked like his brother desperately trying to coax him back home. Then cats wanted food at 7:00am. I got no sleep.
Thankfully the husband let me sleep undisturbed from 8:00-11:30am.
So I started this morning with breakfast and a total re-evaluation of the paper and presentation. A few hours later, I did some gardening planning, revived by struggling seedlings and decided to take a LONG walk. I walked to the video store and grocery store and picked up a few things, including energy drinks and earth for gardening tomorrow. I set aside the whole paper thing and everything else and just watched a movie with the husband. It was refreshing to give my brain a total break. Like pushing reboot.
Now I have tea, uploaded some fanfic, and am looking at the RA stuff with fresh eyes (slightly wired on energy drinks).
Thankfully the husband let me sleep undisturbed from 8:00-11:30am.
So I started this morning with breakfast and a total re-evaluation of the paper and presentation. A few hours later, I did some gardening planning, revived by struggling seedlings and decided to take a LONG walk. I walked to the video store and grocery store and picked up a few things, including energy drinks and earth for gardening tomorrow. I set aside the whole paper thing and everything else and just watched a movie with the husband. It was refreshing to give my brain a total break. Like pushing reboot.
Now I have tea, uploaded some fanfic, and am looking at the RA stuff with fresh eyes (slightly wired on energy drinks).
Friday, May 21, 2010
Look at that! Direction!
I just received directions...
Guess what?! I now have to REWRITE my RA paper. **HEADDESK**
At least now I know what I am doing.
Back to work........
Guess what?! I now have to REWRITE my RA paper. **HEADDESK**
At least now I know what I am doing.
Back to work........
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Slogging
I am slogging through deep mud. That is how I feel. It is kind of how I have felt all month. Like my brain has not gotten a recovery moment before force to work on more stuff. The anxiety of the Congress thing at the end of this month and the mini conference I have to speak in for my RA section of my project has been weighing me down. (among other things not being discussed here)
The paper is slow... slower than slow. I ceased to be connected to it at Beltain. I don't feel like I know what I am doing and do feel like what I am doing is going to be total crap.
The paper is slow... slower than slow. I ceased to be connected to it at Beltain. I don't feel like I know what I am doing and do feel like what I am doing is going to be total crap.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Monday?
Slipped by awfully fast!
The hubby is ill which means I get zero sleep till he leaves for work. I am a light sleeper. I slept for a few hours after he left Monday morning... so my day started real late.
Still no new if I am allowed to continue my studies.
RA paper did get some progress done on it!
And regarding my "trigger thumb" problem... the med cost $70 and are not covered by Quebec Health Plan. I call in the morning to see about subjecting myself to the cortisone injection they suggested.
My sleep pattern is totally messed up.
The hubby is ill which means I get zero sleep till he leaves for work. I am a light sleeper. I slept for a few hours after he left Monday morning... so my day started real late.
Still no new if I am allowed to continue my studies.
RA paper did get some progress done on it!
And regarding my "trigger thumb" problem... the med cost $70 and are not covered by Quebec Health Plan. I call in the morning to see about subjecting myself to the cortisone injection they suggested.
My sleep pattern is totally messed up.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Fail Week
Whatever I had planned this week... didn't happen. Not sure why I am slogging through mental mud and slowed so badly. I missed wishing my mom a Happy Mother's Day. I pay for it in guilt. I could not face my RA paper all week. Now I have to try to crunch it out this week. Nothing I wanted to get done got done.
I feel ... undermined... weighed down...
I feel ... undermined... weighed down...
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there that I know.
My hubby went to his family's for Mother's Day on Saturday and came home with my favorite flowers, lilacs. That is love.
My hubby went to his family's for Mother's Day on Saturday and came home with my favorite flowers, lilacs. That is love.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Totem - Cirque de Soleil
I really... REALLY... REALLY want to go see this.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Last Airbender
Monday? oh... Tuesday?
Ya... my week is messed up. So... today is Tuesday apparently. I thought yesterday was Tuesday and then thought today was Saturday and yet know it is just Tuesday.
Doing some adjusting after a few ... crises... getting sorted out and settling into a new cycle now that Beltain has passed. I have time on my hands... and yet not.
Today and all this week, I am focusing on the RA paper and presentation I have to have ready for the end of the month. The paper needs to go off for editing. The presentation gets a run through in a couple weeks.
Somewhere in all this, I have my thesis to work on. I need to revamp the intro and methodology as well as update the pagan history section by June 4th.
All my stuff is gone from the basement. A new tenant is signed in. A young guy. It will be weird having someone else now in the building. A new and strange energy. More adjusting that will have to happen.
I have no news on the hand/thumb problem... other than it is still a problem. Appointment on May 11th and a second opinion on June 4th.
What am I doing in the meantime? Cleaning house, reviewing data for the RA paper, planning CMS, playing Assassin's Creed, writing fanfiction, editing fanfiction. Hmmm... I should go eat something. Later folks.
Doing some adjusting after a few ... crises... getting sorted out and settling into a new cycle now that Beltain has passed. I have time on my hands... and yet not.
Today and all this week, I am focusing on the RA paper and presentation I have to have ready for the end of the month. The paper needs to go off for editing. The presentation gets a run through in a couple weeks.
Somewhere in all this, I have my thesis to work on. I need to revamp the intro and methodology as well as update the pagan history section by June 4th.
All my stuff is gone from the basement. A new tenant is signed in. A young guy. It will be weird having someone else now in the building. A new and strange energy. More adjusting that will have to happen.
I have no news on the hand/thumb problem... other than it is still a problem. Appointment on May 11th and a second opinion on June 4th.
What am I doing in the meantime? Cleaning house, reviewing data for the RA paper, planning CMS, playing Assassin's Creed, writing fanfiction, editing fanfiction. Hmmm... I should go eat something. Later folks.
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Beltain and Introspection
Happy Beltane everyone! Celebrate the union of the divine and the arrival of spring!
Please do not mind my quietness as I work some things out.
Relax and enjoy the sun, find the sacred and spiritual in all things around you, appreciate what you have before it is gone.
Natures first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's aflower
But only so an hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
And Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down today
Nothing gold can stay
~~Robert Frost~~
Please do not mind my quietness as I work some things out.
Relax and enjoy the sun, find the sacred and spiritual in all things around you, appreciate what you have before it is gone.
Natures first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's aflower
But only so an hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
And Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down today
Nothing gold can stay
~~Robert Frost~~
