So the plan to write every day kinda got lost in the abyss that is the work I have to do. I think it will be have to be a weekly type thing. Oh well. (lol I thought of that exact line while coming home on the Tube! And here I am writing it.)
So how goes the Project? Well I did a bit more work on it since my last post. I went back over a troublesome chapter/section and I think I understand it better now. I carried on for a bit exclusively with the Project work, to the detriment of my other work… well not detriment, but just ignoring my other work. Then I realised my official “main” work of this year required another, different project to be due very very soon indeed. About a month from now. And this is huge! So I set about getting to grips with it, which of course meant that my time for the Project is reduced.
I did realise that the small project draft was due in by around mid-February some time ago, but I didn’t quite grasp that it had to be almost complete by then!
Aside from that minor hiccup, I have also become worried because while working on the Project (i.e. before starting the small work) I realised that I spend very little time of my day actually working on the Project! Maybe 2 hours on one day (well perhaps closer to 3) and generally around 4-5 hours. I really need to get 8 hours done. What do I do in the other periods? Well it seems that I’m either relaxing/taking a “break” (more like a hiatus it now seems!) or eating. Oh god how crap!
That’s why today, and especially after having spoken to someone I work with and learning how he works for a long period from end of work to around 8/9pm, even foregoing food, before relaxing and going to bed, I was determined to actually do work before coming on here to write a journal entry and sleep. It took me longer than I hoped to get started, but these delays were essential (toilet (lol) and sending an important email). So I don’t feel too bad about it.
Also, I feel as if I’m onto a good start and on a role now with the Small project, so that’s good 
Hopefully I will be able to interlace some Project work too as I continue tomorrow. I think if I work at a steady pace on this Small project, then I will be able to finish it, and do it well, by the draft deadline of mid-February, and then I can finish it off before the final deadline of late March. This means that after late-February I will be have this (new) huge weight lifted off my shoulders/head, and be able to get on with the Project work.
Anyway really sleepy, will get up tomorrow early (somehow! unlike in the past) and get down to business!
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