Hey! I hope it's a lucky week!
Anyway, I got a deadline coming up on August 8 for an NIH proposal. It's not a hard deadline, and realistically, it's probably better to push it back til December to avoid rushing something important, but I would still like to push myself - that's the point of this whole thing. After all, I think my demise came from being deadline-driven. I LOVE my Mom's industrious attitude. She always does things as early as possible, regardless of whether she has to. (OK My Dad's DNA dictated that I hated it, but now I wish I had my Mom's on that part anyway).
So naturally, goal for this week is to draft my proposal for my adviser to look at. And he also asked me to keep up with experiment methods and design. I think that should be a plateful this week!
For today, I'm going to finish reading AT LEAST one paper, then start a very zoomed-out draft of the proposal. I am running a fever, but it's not so bad, but I do need to go foraging for food at some point soon. Mmmmmm....foooooooood.... Oh and NO entertainment outside of feeding time!!!
Damnit, I watched future weapons and some bridezilla show. Off to a slow start... :P
ReplyDeleteOK first suggestion is to change the title.
ReplyDeleteI am possibly the world's biggest procrastinator. I love to read. Rather than reading the gazillions of articles I've printed and neatly arranged in a 3-ring binder, I spend my weekends reading what turns out to be at least 2-3 fiction books. Which will never come up in quals or a presentation or anything. must. read. papers.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, uKnCm, for this blog. It's helping me get off my butt as well. or it will once I stop watching this Avatar episode.
p.s. I too am a fan of your creative titles.
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