I’m such a slacker. That doesn’t quite describe it. I have zero motivation for the material I have due next week. I finished off one report on Thursday, and did a good chunk of the group one (I’m fairly certain it hasn’t been touched by my group members since e-mailing it to them Tuesday night) … so I’m not as concerned about those, although revisions will need to be done before Tuesday.
The major thing right now is the second data analysis for Stat 938, also due Tuesday. My less-than-stellar attention span is at an all-time low for this task. I’ve tried working on this for the past two days, but can’t build up any momentum. I just have no interest whatsoever in the analysis (and I’m constantly looking through my 830 text & notes, as I seem to have lost all intuitive feel for the material) and less so in the client report that’s supposed to go along with it.
I did a bit of work yesterday morning. Lin came over early in the afternoon and we killed a couple of hours chatting in the backyard. Then I read for a while, had a nap, ate supper & watched some more Alias, watched Jeopardy (some dude has won 21 times and collected over $750 000!), which lead to Who’s Line Is It Anyway? for an hour (why do I keep forgetting that this might be the funniest show on TV?), and afterwards was Kingdom Hospital — the only TV I had actually planned on watching. I finished off the evening by watching the final episode of season 1 for Alias, then got right into season 1 of Gilmore Girls by playing the pilot episode.
What did I do today? Some schoolwork in small spurts … another episode of GG … more reading … at least I avoided napping. I finished the book I was reading, which set the stage for cracking open Stephen King’s Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah. I’ve made pretty good progress in the book after only a couple of hours. Why can’t my homework be as engrossing? If only I could summon a fraction of the enthusiasm I have for reading right now in order to get other work done.
In fact, any enthusiasm for school right now would be nice. It’s a combination of two not-particularly-interesting-to-me classes (I can see their merit, but really, it’s just not what grabs my attention) and not having any idea where I want this degree to lead me to. Knowing this is as far as I’ll go academically and cynically low expectations of finding a career I can be passionate about have me loathing a transition to the monotonous 9-5 enslavement that awaits me this time next year.
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