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Some of you may recall that I have, off an on over the years, had a goal to "read at least 1000 words from the Geologic Literature a day". This goal has helped me keep on top of the piles of reading a research scientist needs to do, and the discipline of doing it daily, even on weekends and holidays, also helps. However, it happens occasionally that I miss a day, for whatever reason. Before starting my current job my record was remembering 321 days in a row. That one ended when I was in the process of packing up and getting ready to leave Italy to move to Sweden, and, indeed, I decided to just plain take a break from the daily reading, and made no attempt to read any science papers for the year I was not working. However, once I got the job offer to start doing research here I started doing the daily reading again.

I needed to--I was moving into a new field within geology, and had no where near enough background knowledge to do the job without lots and lots of reading. I am pleased to report that this time I managed a much longer stretch without forgetting--from the day I got the job offer I made time to read things from the geologic literature for 410 days in a row! Until this weekend. This weekend I was so focused on making progress on the house and getting everything where it belongs that I simply didn't think of reading at all. On Friday I had made the effort to put a few files into dropbox in hopes that I would spend an hour or two working from home, and a couple of times over the weekend [livejournal.com profile] lord_kjar asked me if I was going to do that work, and each time I decided that it was far more important to do things for the house. Clearly I meant that, because on none of those occasions did it occur to me that in addition to uni work that needs doing I also had reading I should be doing, and so I didn't do it. Oops.

It is a good thing I also want to do good things for my exercise log, or I may not have come into the office at all today, but I like the walk in (42 minutes this morning), and that provides me motivation to come in in the first place. Now that I am hear I should conclude this confession to the world and actually do the things with the data in those files that I didn't look at this weekend...
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