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28.09.2008 - 21:27
Back to the Front
I started this journal around 5 years ago. i was writing my thesis for my Master's, and was spending excessive amounts of time sitting in front of the computer trying to write something... anything that would get me through the hundred or so pages that needed to get done for me to get through my degree. it was pretty tough at times. One of the things I did to try and make things a little less stressful was that I wrote in this journal. Sure, some days the line between stress relief and procrastination was pretty fine, but in the end I made it through, and online writing had become a pretty standard part of my life.
So here I am. 5 years later. I'm now starting to write my thesis for my PhD. My online writing has fallen off pretty dramatically, especially since i started leaving my computer at work during the week. My boy is not a computer geek, so both of our computers have a tendency to gather dust for a few days at a time. I can't remember the last time I chatted online with someone. I don't spend hours wasting time online. Despite the birth of Facebook and my Livejournal account, I spend less time online than I used to. I don't mind that. Hopefully it means that I'm busy living, but some days it means I'm watching another rerun of CSI or What Not To Wear.
Other things I spend less time doing? Climbing. It seems like scheduling in even on time a week has gotten tough. This whole having a life thing is getting in the way of my training regime, that's for sure. But we're working on that one.
And now, once again, I'm supposed to spend the better part of the next few months sitting in front of a computer extracting The Big Picture from everything I've done in the past 5 years. I'm not pretending its going to be easy... it wouldn't be worth doing if it was easy. But I don't think it will come as close to almost breaking me as the last one did. i've been through this before. I know what it takes. I also have a lot more things written about this one. Heck I've had this work published already thankyouverymuch. So I have a lot to work with.
I don't know how all of this is going to pan out. I have a lot to do and a short time in which to do it. But I think I'm ready. Goodness knows I'm ready to be done with my degree. the whole poor starving student thing is wearing a bit thin, after 10 years (or so). I want to live. I want to grow up. I want to move on. I want a real job.
I don't really know whether you'll see more or less of me as a result of this whole writing thing. I guess you couldn't really see me much less, unless I completely stopped writing. I'm hoping you'll see me a bit more, but I'm not really holding my breath at this point. I need to write, I'm much more used to writing, so it takes me less time to warm up to it. Then again, I'm here now, trying to warm up my fingers to do the work I'm supposed to be doing...
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