by thetendingyear | Oct 16, 2018 | Dissertation, Graduate School, Habit formation, Mental Health, Project Management, Slow Living, Time Management, Workaholism, Writing
Do you ever try to start your creative engine and feel like you are met with the mental equivalent of sputters, grinding gears, and high pitched screeching? Do you ever begin a project eagerly, only to find yourself saying “there is no way I’ll ever be able to...
by thetendingyear | Oct 2, 2018 | Chronic Pain, Dissertation, Habit formation, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Writing
The idiom “can’t see the forest for the trees” refers to the anxiety we experience when we get caught up in minutia at the expense of seeing the larger picture. But what about the inverse, when we feel overwhelmed by the vastness of the task at hand, doubting our...
by thetendingyear | Sep 18, 2018 | Dissertation, Graduate School, Project Management, Writing
My theme this month is a fun one: live the life I want to live. In brainstorming for last week’s focus, I asked myself two questions: What do I want? What do I need to do to get that thing? Unsurprisingly, my answers hearkened back to one of my main goals for The...
by thetendingyear | Aug 28, 2018 | Dissertation, Productivity, Writing
Way back when I was an English major in undergrad, I waited until my very last semester to satisfy my math requirement via a freshman-level “Intro to Logic” class. Although I anticipated that learning math (or was it philosophy?) would be a total snorefest, I found...
by thetendingyear | Aug 14, 2018 | Dissertation, Graduate School, Writing
I spent last week in Los Angeles working with the Lisa Ben papers at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. I was one of nine (out of 60!) applicants awarded a 2018 LGBTQ Research Fellowship, courtesy of the ONE Archives Foundation, Inc. Spending five days...
by thetendingyear | Jun 5, 2018 | Addiction & Recovery, Dissertation, Graduate School, Productivity, Workaholism
Most graduate students learn how to condense their dissertation projects into a one sentence “elevator pitch” when someone asks us, “So, what do you study?” We are also just as likely to field the question “Why do you work so much?” with a rehearsed answer. My own...
