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Qurbani
By Feroz Khan, Zeenat Aman Vinod Khanna, Music: Kalyanji Anandji
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Late nite productivityIt's 1 in the morning and I am working. I have several ideas on how to lay out the information I want to convey in my poster. However, my productivity is abysmal. I have been here an hour or two and I have a single slide to show for my results (and that is incomplete too). It doesn't help that I found a bunch of old hindi songs on YouTube. It's finally on auto play so I can concentrate on work. Hopefully. | | |
| More procrastination....So that didn't work. Apparently, writing journal entries is only like stretching if you work out afterwards. Anyway, It's 2:11 on Tuesday and I really should get some research done, but I feel sleepy and extremely unmotivated, probably because I don't know where to start. I hate that. I have a couple of things I can do and both of them require the mental equivalent of stumbling around blindly in the dark... for a bit, before I get my bearings and then I can start coasting. It's the stumbling part I don't like. In times like this, I like to make lists...
- Write 2 page abstract for paper (deadline extended to June 30)
- Actually do the work required for the paper (involves developing software, probably a month's work). The deadline is in September.
- Do the work for my research which involves some implementation. Last time I started it (maybe 6 months back), it turned into a mess and I ran into some irritating problems - problems that are implementation oriented, not researchy.
3 seems to be the best bet, so I think I'll start working on that now. Go! | | |
| It's 1:18 on Monday and I have been in the lab for around an hour and half. Time well wasted because I was cathing up on a weekend's worth of news, posts and journal entries, but now, I have no excuses. I have to start working, but I don't have the motivation. Bah! Must....Work..... Hopefully making this post will get me moving. Hah, that's it. This post is the equivalent of stetching. Now for the real workout... | | |
| The meeting today went well. My advisor was pleased with my proposals and we talked a little more and decided we should write it up and send it to the Army Science Conference in Orlando in Nov. Now I need to write it up and send it over to him. The deadline was June 3 but the bozos moved it to June 9 which means I have more time than I need. Ideally this should mean a better paper, but usually it just means I'll waste the days till the deadline is nearer.
I still have my PhD research to do as well as research for a related paper that I hope to send to the conference in India (though the deadline for that is fast approaching.)
I'm in a good mood.  | | |
| Easily distractedSo, let's see what I have done since May 22. Went to a conference/workshop. That was the end of that week. Been back for 2 days and did a little bit of work. Spent most of yesterday jumping through hoops to get everything on track for my trip to Vancouver for the Cog Sci conference. Spent a little bit of time on research. I think I need to stop going off on unsolvable tangents and stick to solving a smaller problem especially since the particular question is more about satisfying grant requirements than about research. But a part of me rebels at the thought. I keep thinking there is something deep there that I can uncover. I'll give it one more day and if I don't see anything worthwhile I'll go back to implementing stuff.
I also seriously need to think about working at the library or somewhere where I am not distracted every 2 minutes. | | |
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