Thesis blues
Saturday, December 1st, 2007It’ Sunday today, and as I have been doing for the past two weeks after breakfast, I turned on the computer to work on the data that will make up the bulk of my thesis. Rows and rows of numbers representing coordinates, each corresponding to a particular parrotfish species and its feeding area and what it did while it was there were now in front of me.
Last night, when I turned off the computer, I know exactly what I wanted to do next, the next step in the analysis so to say. But now, my mind is blank. I stare at the screen for three minutes, and cannot seem to make sense of what is front of me, and so I end up writing this blog.
And then I know that I have been doing too much for the past week. Too much numbers, too much thinking. I cannot even sleep properly because my mind is busy figuring out how to make the best of the data that I have gathered. ARRRGHHH!!
So today, even though I said I will only work for half a day, I think I will not work at all. I have been so busy for the past weeks, I haven’t even had time to give Orrin his baths and feed him. Arne has been doing the mothering, and I thank God he gave me such a wonderful husband. I’m grateful for once that he doesn’t have any dives lately, because I could work on the data from morning till evening literally.
Anyway, I figure out I am about halfway done with the dataset. The maps are almost finished also. Five more weeks, and I should be ready for my pre-orals. GAD!!!!!! Five more weeks! Sige lang ah, kaya ko ni. I have been preparing for this for 6 years now, and if it takes a bit of superwoman effort just to finish this, then so be it. Ma graduate guid ko ya sa March!
Ok, ranting over. I will take a break today though. Its Sunday for crying out loud! We are going to the park this afternoon and stroll along the boulevard, and maybe browse around in the ukay-ukay for books. The thesis will have to wait for tomorrow.
