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Monday, March 07, 2011

Things to do

I know there are things to do, but I'm hyper-procrastinating here by blogging.

Today I decided not to go lecture, and hopefully I won't miss out anything. *keeping fingers crossed*

I have to summarise 2 books so that I can return them to the poor person waiting for my overdue books on the other end. I truly apologise for letting you wait. And then I have to pay my fines and borrow another 3 books. Hopefully, I'll be able to transcribe and help Rahman out. He seems to be drowning. I also need to sit down and rethink about my thesis focus. It seems a little out of focus - drowning in all the data and literature. As Gana said, researchers need to pull out of all of this to see the conceptual links between random phenomena.

I find it very amusing when people ask me, "you do this got link to geography meh?" Firstly, if there is no link, would I actually put myself through the trouble? Secondly, I also welcome the challenge, it shows that I need to present my data better so that people reading it can see the link. Thirdly, I do not blame them for not seeing the link, Geographies of Music is afterall, a very new field. The subfield I'm working on is even newer.

I still have to write my essay to submit to the for the IARU Fellowship and I've yet to find inspiration to write. Furthermore, there's also like thousand and one readings waiting for me to complete, ok, so maybe I shouldn't wait too long already.

Not to mention the long overdue tutorial reflection about food technology that I have to do and the project literature review to look at. The interviews…the analysis. As well as my life course matters essay. I'm happy that I decided to take the urban soci mid-term instead of doing a term paper…if not there'll just be too much on my hands to handle.

Lucky work and tuition has been treating me kind and of course, the 25th concert have been giving me the drive to do things. I'm already excited about working with them later at 4:30pm.

Sometimes it's not so much as having too much to do…I think I'm a person that works in pace with the amount of things I have to do. For instance, if I don't have much, my work will also lax. However, if I have a lot of do, I tend to squeeze out efficiency in every moment and contradictorily, my work improves. That's why I pile myself…yet enough to still have dinners. There's always a thin margin of working, and over working.

Over the years, I'm still trying to find that balance and this sem seems to be leaning a wee bit on the right side of over-working. Hopefully I'll be able to focus and think through my thesis soon. In any case, I'm glad Prof Skelton gave me more room than necessary to conceptualise my thesis. Don't know if that is a good or bad thing…HAHA! At least we both share the view that social justice as necessary. Whichever, I think it'll be best if I head off to do my work.

So this will be a busy month of March!

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