Sunday…ain’t that supposed to be a day of rest?

Here in the Davis household that isn’t the case today.

I shall be continuing to write my paper. I got a good 1000 words completed yesterday followed by a very very bad 2000 words. I have a friend who also completed a PhD (in sociology). She had the most methodical and global brain in the world (well..that might be a slight exaggeration). She could sit down to write a paper, write up a plan and then actually stick to it. I can’t write like that. I start somewhere with a particular end in mind and I can make as many plans as I like but I will never stick with one of them. I shape, and reshape, write and rewrite and by the end of the whole process it looks nothing like I expected. In short, it was mildly ridiculous to think I could write the whole thing in a weekend and I will continue working on it right through this week. Perhaps I will even need to request permission to (shock, horror, gasping!) work at home.

For anyone who is reading this who works at a normal university, let’s not even go there with the “asking permission to work at home”.

I also need to do washing, a minor amount of cleaning and tidying, buy food (given that shops were shut yesterday) and buy wizard themed prizes for my Monday student competition in the morning.

Out of all these things, I think the last will be the most enjoyable.