kareina

Today I managed over seven hours of uni work, despite doing another two loads of laundry, and running three different dishwasher loads over the course of the day. This is a *much* better total than I've managed recently, and I am encouraged. First I finished incorporating my advisor's suggested edits, which decreased chapter two by another 423 words, then I applied for the job I mentioned in my last (friend's locked) post, then returned to chapter five, which is now longer by 218 words and two figures. My 1000 words have been read, and I've done some exercise, so there is nothing left between me and sleep save our daily yoga ritual. It is amazing how much the daily yoga helps--it makes me feel better physically, emotionally, and mentally. It is such a small time commitment. Even with the annual one minute increase we are only up to 23 minutes of yoga a day, but I love the fact that we've never missed a day (though we have, on many an occasion, done it as late as 25:00 or even 26:00 on our way to bed).

Tomorrow it would be nice to finish chapter five. Wish me luck!

We were up much too late last night, so slept in this morning. I was still sleepy, so spent a fair bit of time over breakfast reading the e-mail I'd downloaded before bed last night. By the time I'd finished that and done some cleaning in the kitchen clovis_t announced that he'd finally got the router to work, so that I can access the internet from the comfort of my recliner in my own room, without moving the computer. Needless to say, I had to celebrate this feat by checking for new mail and LJ posts. Once I'd caught up on that and was ready to start uni work, we had a power failure! My computer may be a laptop, but this really just means that I've got time to safely shut it down when we lose electricity, it doesn't really let me *work* on battery power (nor has any laptop computer I've ever used, personally, I think the possibility of computer batteries lasting more than 30 minutes is just a myth). So I spent some time playing with my hammer dulcimer and then went for a walk with clovis_t, and the power was restored to normal around the time we arrived home. But by then it was already after 5pm (days have this way of slipping past so quickly!), so I settled into uni work. Since then I've managed three full hours of work (and a couple of interruptions) which has lengthened the thesis by 243 words and 13 figures, and brought chapter five *much* closer to done. I so want to give this chapter to my advisor for comments before Christmas...