[thesis swamp, counselling log] little a celebration. as a Treat.

[kaberett]

Partway through today's therapy session I finally managed to articulate an important contributing factor to my current state of "stalled", namely: the total lack of tangible concentrated in-person celebration/reward/whatever for getting the paper accepted (you all were LOVELY, thank you) was turning "finishing the thesis" into "complete this joyless thankless slog that will just involve MORE PEOPLE YELLING AT YOU and nothing nice, ever" and when I put it like that it's... not really any wonder I'm being avoidant. Is it.

And, as I was in the process of articulating this and grudgingly conceding that probably Some Kind Of Celebration would be Wise even though it wasn't! totally finished! quite yet! ... the e-mail notification about proofs being ready for me to look over came in.

SO. Post-lunch (post-therapy) I dug into that, got most of the way through, stormed off to bed to take an Angry Nap about typography (e.g. places they had put linebreaks in the PDF version include between the ° and the C--), engaged in Mutual Gromping with A re typography, recompiled the supplementary figures doc, sent it all off, and then ordered curry.

And then! We played Myst for a bit, and we ate food, and engaged in some Further Cultural Activities, and Adam made a cocktail featuring a lump of dry ice from the packaging from today's Ruby Violet ice cream delivery (and blackberry Pimms and quince liqueur and ginger liqueur and... raspberry bits?), and I spent a bunch of time browsing stationery on the internet and Bought A Notebook and planned a subsequent stationery order for elsewhere for once I've got chapter 5 back to my supervisors--

-- and one way or another I even did most of my physio and now, more or less, with minimal further ado, I am going to have a go at sleep.

Better.

Comments

[brainwane]

Yay! Rites!

[alexseanchai]

places they had put linebreaks in the PDF version include between the ° and the C

—but

also: well done you, and yay celebration!

[davidgillon]

(e.g. places they had put linebreaks in the PDF version include between the ° and the C--

*facepalm*

[vass]

I am very glad you Did a Celebrate.

[rmc28]

Yay you for creating reward!

[azurelunatic]

Lovely little celebration!

(I insisted upon coming back With Food after getting jabs done, for similar reason. It Is An Occasion, Let Us Fucking Celebrate.)

[horselizard]

oh dear, of course lack-of-reward wouldn't be helping! <3 well articulated, and go you for making a celebrate :)

many congrat on P A P E R and i would love to do a big celebrate with you at whatever point in time post-thesis such a thing is possible <3

[simont]

I sympathise with the line break aargh. I once encountered a piece of professionally-tech-pub'ed software documentation that had managed to insert a line break between "C+" and "+".

[kaberett]

... thank you for this light relief -- I am sure you can imagine the face we are collectively pulling!

[silveradept]

Big congratulations again on paper and on continuing to slog through the necessary proofs and thesis material. I hope the curry was delicious.