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Working working working.....for now.

Haven't heard from me in awhile, have you? That's because I've been working! Yep, I am now on day three of my productive week. Although I still find that staring at all the little ants marching outside my window is facinating (Dave, you were right all along!), I find that if I work during the day, I can still procrastinate by night, with much less guilt. Hmmm...if I get all my laundry done, I wonder if I can come to work tomorrow and feel good about taking useless quizzes all day???

There...that wasn't so bad, now, was it?

I worked all day today. Well, except for a 45-minute interlude for a half-pint with my friends, but it was official school-type business. WISP - Women in Science and Pubs. Very important meeting. Anyway, I'm still feeling guilt-ridden, but I think I'm on the right track. I've decided to exercise early in the morning, and work at least a 12-hour day, and avoid the internet brain-pit that I fall into all the time. Sooner or later, I should have some productive results. Then I can actually stop avoiding my advisor, heh heh...

The horrible melodrama that is SSHRC

Sigh....the school doesn't want to send my application to SSHRC, so that means no scholarship for me next year. Okay, okay, I know this blog is about my lazy-ass slacking at school, which begs the question, "what makes you think you deserve SSHRC?"

Well, I'll tell you, I may be slacking now, but I sure as hell wasn't last year, and my CV is looking pretty sweet for a second year doctoral student, if you ask me. Too bad, however, as the Faculty of Graduate Studies won't be asking me. The wonderful people at SSHRC who gave me a scholarship for my Masters won't even see the application. So, I suppose this is the wake-up call I needed...if I don't keep producing, I can kiss any real funding goodbye.

So, I now cross my fingers and hope that the nice people at OGS want to further research on emergency preparedness is disadvantaged communities. Why do I get the sinking feeling that bureaucrats may not have this on the front page their agenda???

It's time to start acting like a student...tomorrow

I'm in my second year of my Ph.D, and I've accepted the fact that I'm the queen of procrastination and avoidance. It's time to change this...starting tomorrow. Really. I know it doesn't sound like I'm actually going to change, but I am.

So, I figure one way to beat the lazies is to post my pathetic wastes of time on here. I know, I know, it's just another way to waste time. However, if I start making people I know read this stuff, they'll find out what a lazy-ass I truly am, which will hopefully embarrass me enough to motivate the change. So, I start today by saying that I didn't do a damn thing today, except play on the internet. Way to go, Ph.D candidate Stace.