I need to figure out how to get past my habit of morning procrastination

[kareina]

because I'm not leaving myself enough working hours in the day once I finally get to work.

Yesterday during the late afternoon I got a ride into town with clovis_t, picked up my rollerblades from my office at uni (we live on a dirt road--no reason to keep them here!) and had him drop me off at the start of the bike path (Hobart has one dedicated bike path, which run next to the train tracks, starting just north of the city centre and continuing through a number of the northern suburbs. It does not, alas, cross the city centre and connect to the university, which it would do if I had the planing of it). From there it was a very pleasant 21 minute skate to the home of our current Baroness, who was hosting a party for those of us who couldn't make it to Rowany Festival this year. It felt so good to be back on my skates--it has been much too long, and I was pleased at how natural it still feels, after all this time.

I enjoyed a very pleasant evening visiting with people and hemming one of my new pairs of jeans and modifying the truly weird neckline on one of my new shirts to something I was happy with. I'd tucked my phone in my back-pack when I arrived, and hadn't seen a clock since, so when clovis_t said he was tired and ready to head home and did I need a ride back out to the house, I opted to go with him, rather than ask anyone else if they could take me later--besides I was getting kind of tired myself. It felt like it must be pushing midnight from the way I felt. Much to my surprise, it wasn't even 9pm yet!

Heading home early last night meant that I had time to get my yoga done for the evening and get to sleep at a reasonable hour, which meant waking up early this morning. Therefore I should have gotten lots and lots of uni work done during the day, right? That was the plan, and I even managed to limit my e-mail/LJ/Facebook reading to only 42 minutes over breakfast, which, in theory, should have meant an early start to uni work. However, I got distracted with "useful tasks", and while I did my 1000 words of reading from the geologic literature (this makes 107 days in a row this time--my record before forgetting so far is 112 days) during what might be considered "day", I didn't actually start working on Uni work proper till nearly 7pm, after having had a nap a walk, more reading e-mail etc. visiting with a few folk on line (and one friend stopped by and joined me for a walk). Sigh. If only I'd have managed to do uni work both during the day, and this evening, how much more progress would I have managed?

Today's uni progress was completing a few more figures for chapter five (still replacing the "chart objects" I'd pasted into Corel from Excel with "pictures" copied from Excel by virtue of clicking upon the graph and then holding down the shift key before using the edit drop-down menu) and added the new figures for the new monazite data. I have also commenced the process of changing the "field numbers" to "catalogue numbers--something I will have to do eventually, and today seemed like a good time to get to it. I'm doing them one sample at a time, as I create and/or fix the figures for that sample I change their numbers in the thesis itself, in the figures in Corel draw, and in the spreadsheet listing all of the figures, what page they are first mentioned, what page they will be facing in the final document, the name of the file in which I can find the original, and the name of the file where I can find the pdf of that whole page of figures. I so wanted to have chapter five *done* by now, but, alas, it is not...