What do you do each day that doesn't contribute to your writing--and can you eliminate it?
When I read this question, I thought, wow, what a difficult question that I have no idea how to answer. To be honest, there aren't many things that I do every single day. In the last year, I have significantly decreased my TV watching, to the point that several days may pass before I actually turn on the TV with the intent to watch something. Before this year, that would have been the answer and a resounding yes that I could eliminate that particular activity. Today though, December 2, 2010, the one thing that I do every day that does not contribute to my writing is procrastination. Does this count? I don't know, but I'm going with it.
The question is, why do I procrastinate? Pretty much the answer to this question is that it's been difficult to make myself work--work as in write my dissertation, work as in grading, work as in submitting job applications. Because these are the things that are the most pressing in my life right now. Believe me when I say that I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out why this is, and perhaps I still haven't come to a conclusion. But I pretty much procrastinate and focus my attention on other chores that are basically meaningless and I tell myself that in doing them I'm spending time "thinking"--thinking about what I'm going to write next or do next. And yet that "thinking" doesn't always translate to doing. That's what I need in my life, more doing.
So the short answer is that yes, I can eliminate procrastination from my life. The question is, how to eliminate? How to stop procrastinating? I can honestly say I just don't have the answers to these questions. That's probably not okay, is it?
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
#reverb10 - day 1 - ONE WORD
Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you're choosing that word. Now, imagine it's one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you?
It's taken me a while to come up with one word to describe 2010. It's been a lot of things, some good and some bad, but i think the one word that encapsulates the year for me is DIFFICULT. Why is this my one word for 2010? Everything about this year has just been so difficult, so hard, such a struggle. I'm a Ph.D. candidate working on my dissertation and that in and of itself is a challenge to say the least. I'm looking for a job, too, which is always difficult. Personally, it's also been a difficult year and there are lots of reasons for this that in truth stem from my professional career as teach and student. Writing a dissertation is an isolating process, and that has been compounded in the last half of the year by the fact that once May arrived, I basically had no reason to be on campus, which means that my chances for actually interacting with people significantly declined. Even though I did try to make a point of participating in department activities and being social, I still spend a lot of my time alone. Which hasn't been good for my overall temperament. I'm used to being alone--at least, I thought I was, but this year has been a whole different level of alone, and that's just been really difficult to adjust to. Actually, I can't really say that I've adjusted all that well. I guess I'm coping, but I'm not doing anything to make it better. As I have been reflecting on this prompt, it has occurred to me that 2010 has probably been the most difficult of years for me in a really long time. Perhaps that's normal for someone who has all the things going on in her life as I do, but still, I can't claim to be living a horrible existence. Many many people have it much worse than I do. While this perspective helps, it still doesn't change how I reflect on 2010.
Here I am, imagining it's December 1, 2011. What one world would I like to capture the year? SURPRISING. I would love to be able to look back at 2011 and be surprised--to be surprised at all that I was able to accomplish in terms of starting a new career, to be surprised by all the new friendships I have made, to be surprised by all of the old friendships I have managed to retain and rekindle, to be surprised by where I call home, to be surprised by all that came into my life as a new chapter began, to be surprised by me and all of the little things about me that have changed and made me into a stronger and happier person, to be surprised that there was one moment, just one moment in the year when I could say that I felt happy and content. SURPRISING. Is that too much to hope for? Guess I'll need a year to find out. Guess I'll need a year to make 2010 surprising.
It's taken me a while to come up with one word to describe 2010. It's been a lot of things, some good and some bad, but i think the one word that encapsulates the year for me is DIFFICULT. Why is this my one word for 2010? Everything about this year has just been so difficult, so hard, such a struggle. I'm a Ph.D. candidate working on my dissertation and that in and of itself is a challenge to say the least. I'm looking for a job, too, which is always difficult. Personally, it's also been a difficult year and there are lots of reasons for this that in truth stem from my professional career as teach and student. Writing a dissertation is an isolating process, and that has been compounded in the last half of the year by the fact that once May arrived, I basically had no reason to be on campus, which means that my chances for actually interacting with people significantly declined. Even though I did try to make a point of participating in department activities and being social, I still spend a lot of my time alone. Which hasn't been good for my overall temperament. I'm used to being alone--at least, I thought I was, but this year has been a whole different level of alone, and that's just been really difficult to adjust to. Actually, I can't really say that I've adjusted all that well. I guess I'm coping, but I'm not doing anything to make it better. As I have been reflecting on this prompt, it has occurred to me that 2010 has probably been the most difficult of years for me in a really long time. Perhaps that's normal for someone who has all the things going on in her life as I do, but still, I can't claim to be living a horrible existence. Many many people have it much worse than I do. While this perspective helps, it still doesn't change how I reflect on 2010.
Here I am, imagining it's December 1, 2011. What one world would I like to capture the year? SURPRISING. I would love to be able to look back at 2011 and be surprised--to be surprised at all that I was able to accomplish in terms of starting a new career, to be surprised by all the new friendships I have made, to be surprised by all of the old friendships I have managed to retain and rekindle, to be surprised by where I call home, to be surprised by all that came into my life as a new chapter began, to be surprised by me and all of the little things about me that have changed and made me into a stronger and happier person, to be surprised that there was one moment, just one moment in the year when I could say that I felt happy and content. SURPRISING. Is that too much to hope for? Guess I'll need a year to find out. Guess I'll need a year to make 2010 surprising.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
dissertation digest #8
ummm....i think i am currently stuck in terms of what comes next in this chapter of the dissertation. i've been sitting here for an hour trying to write something, but the only thing i've written down is the time that the game starts tonight. 4.57. those aren't even words. so i have been staring at a blank page, twirling my pen in my hand, unable to figure out how to begin. is this because i made the attempt to write first thing in the morning rather than in the evening? could this be the reason that i'm so blocked? here's the thing: i know i'm not going to work tonight. it's game one of the world series and texas is playing and cliff lee is pitching against tim lincecum. yeah. i'm so not working tonight. so i thought i would try to be good and do my dissertation writing in the morning, then try to grade some papers later, and then it would be okay if i didn't work tonight because i would have already gotten my 500 words written for the day. but nothing. i'm dressed and sitting at the coffee shop. i'm drinking the day's first cup of coffee. i even have makeup on. seriously. in terms of personal appearance, this morning has been a home run. in terms of productivity on the dissertation, though, nada. here's another thing: i realize that i know absolutely nothing about child narrators. this is what i think the next section of the chapter should be about--how the author has given us a child narrator and what that means in terms of how we "see" the story. the 'title' for this section is 'seeing through the eyes of a child'. this title won't really appear in the dissertation, i'm just using it right now to help keep me focused on what the topic of this particular section is supposed to be. and yet, i keep thinking to myself that i don't know enough about narrative theory to talk about this child narrator. ugh. honestly. i could fill ten thousand libraries with stuff i don't know. but still, i feel like i need to know something in order to get started writing. i haven't been blocked like this in a while. i was actually expecting it to not be difficult to sit down and write today. i wrote yesterday, and usually when i try to write on consecutive days, it gets easier and easier because i'm immersed. but i didn't even have any ideas about what to write pop into my mind this morning when i was walking downtown, and that's pretty unusual. usually before a writing session my mind is thinking about what i'm going to write. but not this morning. more evidence of my blocked status. hmmm...so what to do now? when i started working on the chapter on ASCH, i made a list of quotes from the text that i might use, and that seemed to get me started in terms of how to do the close-reading and analysis, so maybe i should try that? i also ordered a book on narrative theory from summit yesterday so hopefully that will be here soon. i am already using the first chapter of that book but hopefully the author has also written a chapter on child narrators. guess we'll see. okay, so a list of direct quotes from the novel. let's try that and see where that gets me.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
dissertation digest #7
wow, it's been a long time since i blogged about my dissertation. the good news is that a first draft is with my advisor. i managed to send that off on october 6th. the bad news, since then i feel like i have only been "pretending" to work on the next chapter of the diss. i have re-read the book that is the focus of the chapter (good) and i also have a set of questions i want to answer in his chapter (also good). i've even done some writing--my draft currently has 1700+ words (also good). the bad news is that i really really wanted to have a full draft of chapter 4 by the end of october (which you'll note is only 5 days away) but i have to admit that that is just not going to happen. so, i'm going to set a new goal to have a full draft of this chapter by november 15th. i don't really know if that is a reasonable or even an achievable goal. completing job applications has really slowed down my progress on my dissertation and in some ways it's killed any momentum i may have had at the beginning of october.
however, i must also admit that one of the reasons why i haven't made much progress on the dissertation is that i have not been keeping to my daily work schedule. adherence to that schedule has been sporadic at best. i'm just having trouble motivating myself to get things done. i'm going to have to find a way to solve whatever problem is at the heart of this lack of motivation but before i can do that i'm going to have to identify what that problem is. i'd like to blame it on any number of distractions i have recently allowed to take my attention away from what i should be and need to be doing--baseball playoffs are currently going on, i have recently become addicted to "castle" and PBS is finally airing "sherlock". hmmm...all of these seem to revolve around my desire to watch TV, which seems like bam that's the reason, but it's not. in actuality, i have spent very little time sitting in front of the TV watching baseball and not doing anything else. and while it is true that i have blown through all of season 1 and 2 of castle and just watched all five episodes from season three last night, i just have a hard time blaming my lack of productivity on this new obsession because most of that TV watching was concentrated into a handful of days. so really, i have no idea how to account for the last two and a half weeks of october. i know i have spent a lot of time on my online class--it seems like just when i settle in to do my own work (today is a great example) something comes up and i feel like i have to deal with it right then, and then i lose momentum once more.
and, as i was saying to a friend the other day, i haven't been as good at compartmentalizing all of my tasks as i was in september and the first week of october. i was much more focused and driven in those five or six weeks. but since i've started working on job applications and after sending chapter 3 to my advisor, i've been a lot less focused.
at least today i have made some progress, and i need to be happy with that progress while at the same time look ahead to tomorrow and demand more progress from myself. i managed to get 4 papers graded this morning (though i'm going to need to speed up. i need to be reading and commenting and grading one paper every 30 minutes, but it took me about 2 hrs and 20 minutes to read and grade those 4 papers this morning). i also managed to complete my duties as colloquium chair this morning and "advertised" this friday's colloquium. and i have also managed to write 555 words and write a loose outline in terms of what the next three sections of chapter 4 should be focused on. and hey, it's not even 4pm. but i haven't had lunch, so my body probably still thinks i'm going to starve it. *sigh*
however, i must also admit that one of the reasons why i haven't made much progress on the dissertation is that i have not been keeping to my daily work schedule. adherence to that schedule has been sporadic at best. i'm just having trouble motivating myself to get things done. i'm going to have to find a way to solve whatever problem is at the heart of this lack of motivation but before i can do that i'm going to have to identify what that problem is. i'd like to blame it on any number of distractions i have recently allowed to take my attention away from what i should be and need to be doing--baseball playoffs are currently going on, i have recently become addicted to "castle" and PBS is finally airing "sherlock". hmmm...all of these seem to revolve around my desire to watch TV, which seems like bam that's the reason, but it's not. in actuality, i have spent very little time sitting in front of the TV watching baseball and not doing anything else. and while it is true that i have blown through all of season 1 and 2 of castle and just watched all five episodes from season three last night, i just have a hard time blaming my lack of productivity on this new obsession because most of that TV watching was concentrated into a handful of days. so really, i have no idea how to account for the last two and a half weeks of october. i know i have spent a lot of time on my online class--it seems like just when i settle in to do my own work (today is a great example) something comes up and i feel like i have to deal with it right then, and then i lose momentum once more.
and, as i was saying to a friend the other day, i haven't been as good at compartmentalizing all of my tasks as i was in september and the first week of october. i was much more focused and driven in those five or six weeks. but since i've started working on job applications and after sending chapter 3 to my advisor, i've been a lot less focused.
at least today i have made some progress, and i need to be happy with that progress while at the same time look ahead to tomorrow and demand more progress from myself. i managed to get 4 papers graded this morning (though i'm going to need to speed up. i need to be reading and commenting and grading one paper every 30 minutes, but it took me about 2 hrs and 20 minutes to read and grade those 4 papers this morning). i also managed to complete my duties as colloquium chair this morning and "advertised" this friday's colloquium. and i have also managed to write 555 words and write a loose outline in terms of what the next three sections of chapter 4 should be focused on. and hey, it's not even 4pm. but i haven't had lunch, so my body probably still thinks i'm going to starve it. *sigh*
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
dissertation digest #6
528.
tonight's writing session was not much of a writing session, even though i did manage to make my goal of writing 500 words tonight. my initial thought is that 500 words isn't a hard enough goal to reach. i know. i know. i always expect way too much of myself. but to be honest, once i got to 500 words, i felt like it was okay to stop working. and i did stop working. i did nothing for the hour that followed me reaching that 500 word goal. the good thing is that i added 500 words. the better thing is that the 500 words i did add will go a long way to focusing the next section of this chapter. the negative is that i would have written more if i had set my word count goal higher. this wasn't one of those nights where i came to the office not wanting to work but did some work and some work is better than no work at all. on the other hand, when i came to the office i wasn't really sure what i was going to write. so maybe even though i felt like tonight's goal was too easy, the positive that i should take away is that at least when i write tomorrow, i'll have some idea of what i need to accomplish.
one additional positive outcome of tonight's work session is that i got an essay graded. that is an unexpected check mark on the to-do list. i don't yet feel overwhelmed by my teaching responsibilities and that is definitely a plus.
so tomorrow hopefully i will write another 500 words and be that much closer to having a full first draft for this chapter.
tonight's writing session was not much of a writing session, even though i did manage to make my goal of writing 500 words tonight. my initial thought is that 500 words isn't a hard enough goal to reach. i know. i know. i always expect way too much of myself. but to be honest, once i got to 500 words, i felt like it was okay to stop working. and i did stop working. i did nothing for the hour that followed me reaching that 500 word goal. the good thing is that i added 500 words. the better thing is that the 500 words i did add will go a long way to focusing the next section of this chapter. the negative is that i would have written more if i had set my word count goal higher. this wasn't one of those nights where i came to the office not wanting to work but did some work and some work is better than no work at all. on the other hand, when i came to the office i wasn't really sure what i was going to write. so maybe even though i felt like tonight's goal was too easy, the positive that i should take away is that at least when i write tomorrow, i'll have some idea of what i need to accomplish.
one additional positive outcome of tonight's work session is that i got an essay graded. that is an unexpected check mark on the to-do list. i don't yet feel overwhelmed by my teaching responsibilities and that is definitely a plus.
so tomorrow hopefully i will write another 500 words and be that much closer to having a full first draft for this chapter.
Monday, September 6, 2010
dissertation digest #5
2815.
let's call this day 2 of "so...how much progress could i make if...". i was thinking this morning (don't be so surprised!) about what kind of progress could i make on my dissertation if i made a commitment to write at least 500 words per day through september 30th. this question was inspired by a post on the time-management ninja blog that i read a while back where the writer asks what could you do in a year if you really set your mind to it. one of the ideas was get in the best shape of your life. while that would be fantastic, right now, i have two goals: finish my dissertation and find some kind of job in academia for the 2011-2012 school year. so i asked myself: what kind of progress could i make on my dissertation if i made the commitment to add at least 500 words to my dissertation over the next 25 days? i'm here to say that i have taken up this challenge whole-heartedly, though i do already foresee some challenges.
the first and most difficult to surmount is the fact that i'm taking a mini-vacation starting on september 16th, and i won't return home until september 20th. so i'm going to lose those 5 days because i highly doubt that i'm going to be able to write while i'm away. if i were going on my own, that might be one thing, but i'm meeting my aunt so i don't anticipate having enough alone time to get any amount of writing done. though i have already made the promise to myself to try to do some revision if at all possible. i also need to plan ahead for this lack of writing by trying to exceed my writing goal whenever possible for the remaining days that i will be writing.
the second challenge that i've already been faced with--what about those days when i need to revise or read? so what? i can still add at least 500 words b/c if nothing else, i can add relevant quotes to my document as well as start forming an outline and the most important questions that i want the chapter i'm working on to answer.
those are the biggest challenges that i foresee, but i'll just have to wait and see what happens and how committed i am to dedicating the majority of my time and focus to getting this dissertation written.
as for today--i had an awesome day as far as writing goes. i got up and the first thing i did was write. now here's the thing--i do believe in the power of the advice "write first". i used that idea when i was nano'ing two summers ago and i met the 50,000 word goal in 30 days because of it. the reason i made writing first a priority this morning was because i wasn't able to get as much done last night as i wanted. so i set freedom to run for an hour and fifteen minutes and i'm not kidding when i say that in 1 hr and 15 minutes i wrote 1372 words. for real! it was such a fabulous way to start the day. i went to the office tonight for my regularly scheduled writing session and managed to write another 1443 words. but don't be fooled. this chapter draft is still very much a mess and is going to need lots and lots of revision. but i am grateful for the steady progress i am making in terms of getting the ideas out of my head and onto paper where i can actually work them into something coherent and organized. although today was a holiday, i feel like i've had double potions and managed to avoid snape's wrath. double potions-double dissertation writing sessions.
oh, and i almost forgot. the final verdict about last night--i do believe that i was having a mild anxiety attack. when i got home i got straight into bed and just concentrated on breathing and trying to relax my muscles and slow my heartbeat down, which was racing. after about forty-five minutes the queasy feeling went away and i was able to eventually fall asleep. it was just such an oddly timed anxiety attack because i was actually getting some writing done. i dunno. the human body is still a mystery. but the good news is that it didn't happen again today, and hopefully i can stop having to schedule meetings and such during my work out time so the exercise should help to alleviate some of my tension.
let's call this day 2 of "so...how much progress could i make if...". i was thinking this morning (don't be so surprised!) about what kind of progress could i make on my dissertation if i made a commitment to write at least 500 words per day through september 30th. this question was inspired by a post on the time-management ninja blog that i read a while back where the writer asks what could you do in a year if you really set your mind to it. one of the ideas was get in the best shape of your life. while that would be fantastic, right now, i have two goals: finish my dissertation and find some kind of job in academia for the 2011-2012 school year. so i asked myself: what kind of progress could i make on my dissertation if i made the commitment to add at least 500 words to my dissertation over the next 25 days? i'm here to say that i have taken up this challenge whole-heartedly, though i do already foresee some challenges.
the first and most difficult to surmount is the fact that i'm taking a mini-vacation starting on september 16th, and i won't return home until september 20th. so i'm going to lose those 5 days because i highly doubt that i'm going to be able to write while i'm away. if i were going on my own, that might be one thing, but i'm meeting my aunt so i don't anticipate having enough alone time to get any amount of writing done. though i have already made the promise to myself to try to do some revision if at all possible. i also need to plan ahead for this lack of writing by trying to exceed my writing goal whenever possible for the remaining days that i will be writing.
the second challenge that i've already been faced with--what about those days when i need to revise or read? so what? i can still add at least 500 words b/c if nothing else, i can add relevant quotes to my document as well as start forming an outline and the most important questions that i want the chapter i'm working on to answer.
those are the biggest challenges that i foresee, but i'll just have to wait and see what happens and how committed i am to dedicating the majority of my time and focus to getting this dissertation written.
as for today--i had an awesome day as far as writing goes. i got up and the first thing i did was write. now here's the thing--i do believe in the power of the advice "write first". i used that idea when i was nano'ing two summers ago and i met the 50,000 word goal in 30 days because of it. the reason i made writing first a priority this morning was because i wasn't able to get as much done last night as i wanted. so i set freedom to run for an hour and fifteen minutes and i'm not kidding when i say that in 1 hr and 15 minutes i wrote 1372 words. for real! it was such a fabulous way to start the day. i went to the office tonight for my regularly scheduled writing session and managed to write another 1443 words. but don't be fooled. this chapter draft is still very much a mess and is going to need lots and lots of revision. but i am grateful for the steady progress i am making in terms of getting the ideas out of my head and onto paper where i can actually work them into something coherent and organized. although today was a holiday, i feel like i've had double potions and managed to avoid snape's wrath. double potions-double dissertation writing sessions.
oh, and i almost forgot. the final verdict about last night--i do believe that i was having a mild anxiety attack. when i got home i got straight into bed and just concentrated on breathing and trying to relax my muscles and slow my heartbeat down, which was racing. after about forty-five minutes the queasy feeling went away and i was able to eventually fall asleep. it was just such an oddly timed anxiety attack because i was actually getting some writing done. i dunno. the human body is still a mystery. but the good news is that it didn't happen again today, and hopefully i can stop having to schedule meetings and such during my work out time so the exercise should help to alleviate some of my tension.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
dissertation digest #4
857.
okay, first of all, i have no idea what's wrong with me. physically, i feel absolutely wretched. this is sort of how i feel when i'm about to have an anxiety attack, but i'm not 100% sure that that's what this is. i was sitting in my office, and at about 9.30 i started feeling kind of nauseous and my head started to kind of hurt. it might be because my blood sugar is falling too low, but honestly, eating something, anything, right now does not sound very appealing at all. and my head is getting that heavy, kind of groggy feeling again, which seems to have started happening early this week. it's not lack of sleep. for someone who's writing a dissertation i get plenty of sleep. and funny that all day today, while i wasn't trying to work on my dissertation, i felt fine. so i feel like this feeling is somehow connected to trying to work on my dissertation this evening. i ended up writing 857 words. i had hoped for 1000 words tonight, but i'll take what i can get right now and i also have an idea of what needs to come next. while i was working in the office i was adding things to my to-do list. it now has 16 items on it, where it read 8 when i started working at 6.00 this evening. ugh. even now i still have that nauseous, queasy feeling. the only thing that seems to be missing that is typical of one of my anxiety attacks is the trembling. i can usually feel myself trembling a lot (more than the usual caffeine-induced trembling i'm used to) as well as the sense of being really hot. honestly, i have to find a way to make these feelings stop.
well, in other news, i'm still working on drafting chapter 3 of the dissertation. i am going to have to really work everyday, diligently, for the rest of the month (save the four days when i am on vacation in mid-september) to get to where i want to be on september 30th--a draft of chapter 3 and a draft of chapter 5. these people who say they wrote their dissertation in 3 weeks or 8 weeks, i really can't imagine how they did that. tonight was a so-so writing session. i had a lot of trouble focusing on what i was trying to write. i'm teaching online this semester, and my students have been blogging and submitting response papers since thursday. i was lax about reading posts on friday when i should have been reading and responding. i got a lot of reading of posts done today at home before going to the office to work on my own work, but when i got to the office i spent an hour (and really, i do not know how i spent an hour on these tasks) doing additional work for my class, and every time my freedom session expired i found myself going back to the course space. just going there--not doing any real work. so, it was really hard to focus on my writing tonight. i'm grateful for the 857 words and will hope for and try to write 1000 words tomorrow.
okay, first of all, i have no idea what's wrong with me. physically, i feel absolutely wretched. this is sort of how i feel when i'm about to have an anxiety attack, but i'm not 100% sure that that's what this is. i was sitting in my office, and at about 9.30 i started feeling kind of nauseous and my head started to kind of hurt. it might be because my blood sugar is falling too low, but honestly, eating something, anything, right now does not sound very appealing at all. and my head is getting that heavy, kind of groggy feeling again, which seems to have started happening early this week. it's not lack of sleep. for someone who's writing a dissertation i get plenty of sleep. and funny that all day today, while i wasn't trying to work on my dissertation, i felt fine. so i feel like this feeling is somehow connected to trying to work on my dissertation this evening. i ended up writing 857 words. i had hoped for 1000 words tonight, but i'll take what i can get right now and i also have an idea of what needs to come next. while i was working in the office i was adding things to my to-do list. it now has 16 items on it, where it read 8 when i started working at 6.00 this evening. ugh. even now i still have that nauseous, queasy feeling. the only thing that seems to be missing that is typical of one of my anxiety attacks is the trembling. i can usually feel myself trembling a lot (more than the usual caffeine-induced trembling i'm used to) as well as the sense of being really hot. honestly, i have to find a way to make these feelings stop.
well, in other news, i'm still working on drafting chapter 3 of the dissertation. i am going to have to really work everyday, diligently, for the rest of the month (save the four days when i am on vacation in mid-september) to get to where i want to be on september 30th--a draft of chapter 3 and a draft of chapter 5. these people who say they wrote their dissertation in 3 weeks or 8 weeks, i really can't imagine how they did that. tonight was a so-so writing session. i had a lot of trouble focusing on what i was trying to write. i'm teaching online this semester, and my students have been blogging and submitting response papers since thursday. i was lax about reading posts on friday when i should have been reading and responding. i got a lot of reading of posts done today at home before going to the office to work on my own work, but when i got to the office i spent an hour (and really, i do not know how i spent an hour on these tasks) doing additional work for my class, and every time my freedom session expired i found myself going back to the course space. just going there--not doing any real work. so, it was really hard to focus on my writing tonight. i'm grateful for the 857 words and will hope for and try to write 1000 words tomorrow.
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