Working in Open Office Draw slows down my computer dramatically. While waiting for the program to make the changes I ordered, browsing the internet is a nice distraction from the highly stressful event that’s called ‘the first draft’. In the past two weeks I have been working almost every day to get as much done before the first draft is due next monday.The last blog entry was two weeks ago and in these weeks I didn’t really feel like touching my computer when I decide that it has been enough at the end of the day. So while Open Office was doing its work I surfed through some websites I read to keep updated on all the action around old and new media. ‘Broadcasters consider iPad for print’, ‘Twitter and TomTom make GPS-pact’, ‘Time magazine launches new iPad app’ are all things that should interest me. But instead of reading these articles with interest, I keep thinking ‘Oh god, still have to do the references in chapter 2′ or ‘Why hasn’t that publisher mailed me back? I need her answers!’.
Oh, how I now wish that I didn’t spend so much time just being lazy in march and april. With less than a week to go, I still have to finish about 5 pages of content analysis and write my whole conclusion & discussion. I know I can manage this in 6 days, but reading on facebook how other people have finished already is not encouraging. But I know I am a person who prefers final sprints and I know (or I hope?) that I will pass the finish line on time, like I did so many other times before.
The motivation is there; a day to the Efteling, a weekend in Germany, Thijs returning from Nepal, a possible trip to Paris, a fantastic internship awaiting me in september and possibly a large trip to Asia in january after the internship… Better get back to work.
