Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Time awry

One of the biggest lessons to learn about grad school is time management. This seems obvious, but grad school is particularly good at totally destroying your best efforts at it. With plays you forgot need to be read (do you panic and read, or realise it isn't gonna happen?), spur-of-the-moment meetings, or random outings (this is much less of a complaint.) However, I have discovered 2 new ones in as many days, both thanks for Spring Awakening.
  1. Staying up till 2AM researching image references in a script. This is sanctioned and useful surfing until you realise that it is 2AM and you are elbow deep in some awesome art-chive, and you need to go to bed.
  2. When collating said images takes 2 hours instead of 20 minutes, effectively killing your AM agenda.
These are both delightful and destructive, since I am trying SO hard to keep myself on a regular schedule, including a pre-arranged menu (to limit the junk intake). And because then I have nap-guilt later. How weird is it to feel guilty/irresponsible taking a nap, because you feel like you should be using your time more productively, doing things like reading, or the damn dishes. Must not feel guilty about sleep, since it vastly improves the quality of work, if not quantity.

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