I’m feeling really good about my research today. I’m settled into my new workstation (in the room next door to my old workstation – already a much more social atmosphere, though my desk is covered in dust! Great spot, though – I can’t see the door from here so I don’t look up every time someone comes in!), I’ve got my parking permit, and I’m actually doing some thinking/writing. I’m confident that I’ll manage to churn out a few pages to send off to Supervisor M by Friday – which will be the first time I’ve managed to email her something when I’ve promised it. Normally promises of written work result in me suffering from immense writer’s block and doubting my abilities as a researcher.
Why, I ask, why can I not possess the same ability to write in an academic sense as I do to write in a blogging sense? Perhaps this is something I need to explore in my research? I rarely suffer from writer’s block (hah – I just wrote “writer’s blog”. Shit. GET ME OUT OF HERE!) when I’m blogging. Or rather, if I do, I’m not so aware of it. I just go on blogging hiatus for a few days until it passes – and then I generally overcompensate by posting three or four times a day. Maybe that’s my problem – I use up all my good ideas for the week in one day.
Anyway. Back to research. I’ve found a handful of new blogs this morning that I <3 – some of which will be read for the purposes of research exclusively (such as this Walter Ong blog), and others that I will read half for research, half for fun. I definitely need to bulk up my Google Reader-charged blogroll; I get so frustrated when my favourite bloggers don’t have ten thousand new posts for me to read each day (har har – maybe I should post more myself? Maybe I should expect less of my bloggy peers?). More blogs will mean more reading… which will undoubtedly mean more online time wastage… but it will make for a happier Erin.
I’m going bowling tonight (hah! My Wii bowling record is 204… I will not be replicating that in real life, I can tell you now!), but if I wasn’t I would definitely read some Ong, I think. I’ll have to put it on the list for tomorrow night. I need to invest in a bedside table so I can read in bed – because goodness knows that Walter J Ong makes for wonderful bedtime reading.
But now: more writing.
