I bet you think I have not been procrastinating ... have I got news for you
So the weekends almost over and you haven't really heard from me. You've been thinking Oh that Ludo he must be polishing off the final version of his article - that's why he hasn't posted any reports on cleaning the kitchen.
Well, have I got news for you. I have and I haven't been working on the article. I ran into a serious issue on my analysis that will mean finding some more data. This can't be done in time for the deadline as I have to wait for a colleague to get back from her fieldwork and ask for her permission to use some of her data to work on. There now, I got some work done and then found an elaborate reason to slack off a bit. Though truth be known I kinda like the struggle of writing up research specially since I cannot truly think through an analysis until I am writing it. I mean we are expected in my discipline to work with data and test and analyse and come up with a result and then write it all up. But I actually have to start writing as if it is 'article ready' to come up with the ideas in the first place. I know this is not efficient especially when I have to start off with the introduction, and you cannot guess how many introductions I have to write to get to the final one. But to mangle Morrissey and don't you wish someone would there's more to life than efficiency but not much more...
In sad news, one of our nations great leftist prime ministers ... well as leftist as you can get in late modernity ... appears to be shuffling off this mortal coil. It was under his leadership that we declared our nation nuclear free and said good-bye to the Americans. Even more crucially our optingout of the formal ANZUS alliance sent us on a quite divergent path from our richer brasher cousins across the Tasman, whose government against the wishes of the large majority of sane Australians more and more have been seeking to lick Bush's butt, tried harder to persecute migrants and refugees and doubled their efforts to insult, malign, and degrade the few remaining aborginal cultures. It will be sad to see Lange go. Even those that don't agree with him and in many ways he was as contraversial as the hard right government of the seventies and early eighties he freed us from, would agree that he was a great and witty orator.
Well, have I got news for you. I have and I haven't been working on the article. I ran into a serious issue on my analysis that will mean finding some more data. This can't be done in time for the deadline as I have to wait for a colleague to get back from her fieldwork and ask for her permission to use some of her data to work on. There now, I got some work done and then found an elaborate reason to slack off a bit. Though truth be known I kinda like the struggle of writing up research specially since I cannot truly think through an analysis until I am writing it. I mean we are expected in my discipline to work with data and test and analyse and come up with a result and then write it all up. But I actually have to start writing as if it is 'article ready' to come up with the ideas in the first place. I know this is not efficient especially when I have to start off with the introduction, and you cannot guess how many introductions I have to write to get to the final one. But to mangle Morrissey and don't you wish someone would there's more to life than efficiency but not much more...
In sad news, one of our nations great leftist prime ministers ... well as leftist as you can get in late modernity ... appears to be shuffling off this mortal coil. It was under his leadership that we declared our nation nuclear free and said good-bye to the Americans. Even more crucially our optingout of the formal ANZUS alliance sent us on a quite divergent path from our richer brasher cousins across the Tasman, whose government against the wishes of the large majority of sane Australians more and more have been seeking to lick Bush's butt, tried harder to persecute migrants and refugees and doubled their efforts to insult, malign, and degrade the few remaining aborginal cultures. It will be sad to see Lange go. Even those that don't agree with him and in many ways he was as contraversial as the hard right government of the seventies and early eighties he freed us from, would agree that he was a great and witty orator.
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