Break work I have trouble doing into bite-sized pieces

I`m just trying to reduce the number of goals on my list to make them a bit less overwhelming. And this goal is quite similar to my “stop thinking in an all or nothing way”-goal.

at doing this. i think it can be subsumed to the other work-related goals now. yay.

• intro
• method
• results
• discussion
• rest

[first read-through complete!]

with all the packing and moving work. Sigh. Moving is really stressful for most people, and for my ADD mind it`s just chaos and overload. And the problem is, since I don`t have a job at the moment, I`m at home most of the time. Which means I`m constantly working on it, even when I try to relax and watch tv or something, I keep getting up to put something in a box before I forget it, planning what to pack where, thinking about how to fit everything into the new place, it`s a constant thing and it`s driving me completely nuts.
I really have to try to break this into smaller pieces, pack a few boxes every day and then leave it. But that`s easier said than done.

i’m stalling on this—doubtless because i’m worried i’ve forgotten something hideously important that will have to be changed in every chapter. well, even if i have, it’s hardly likely i’m going to remember it now. so let’s go.

chap 1&figs

chap 2&figs

chap 3&figs

chap 4&figs

chap 5&figs

chap 6&figs

chap 7&figs

chap 8&figs

chap 9&figs

chap 10, no figs

chap 11&figs

chap 12&figs

chap 13&figs

chap 14&figs

chap 15&figs

preface

biosketches

bibliography

especially for snowleopard. the problem is that there are millions of subsections under each of these. argh. must stop moaning and do something.

• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.3
• 15.4
• 15.4.1
• 15.4.2
• 15.4.3
• 15.5
• 15.6
• 15.6.1
• 15.6.2
• 15.6.3
• 15.6.4

• 15.7
• 15.7.1
• 15.7.2
• 15.7.3
• 15.7.4
• 15.7.5
• 15.7.5.1
• 15.7.5.2
• 15.7.5.3
• 15.7.5.4

SENT!!!!!!!!

• 15.8
• 15.8.1
• 15.8.2
• 15.8.2.1
• 15.8.2.2
• 15.8.2.3
• 15.8.2.4
• 15.8.2.5
• 15.8.3
• 15.8.4
• review questions
• tabs & abbs

DONE AND SENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is becoming a little bit overwhelming now. There are lots of things I would like to read through, and I need to prepare for different questions they might ask me. So I`m trying the bite-sized piece thing. First bite:
- Download three issues of the paper in pdf and read. (Not meaning reading every word of it, but reading some articles and getting and overview.)

• cover letter (16 pages!) DONE!
• intro
• methods
• results
• discussion
• refs
• tabs & abbs

[Edit: Doing well, but had a long, productive! meeting, and have only just finished following up on all my jobs from that. wow, that’s good in fact. yeah. must now find myself sth to eat and continue with text.]

am editing another paper from hell. my brain has closed down. it was ok for an hour or two this morning, but now it is absolutely refusing to countenance any more of the stuff.

sample sentence:
“Which instructional features make a letter differs from the others?”

the only thing that was keeping me going was seeing how much i could cut. but now that’s not working either. shite.

that the tasks that I find boring/odious/tedious/scary would stop plaguing me if I just freakin got them done!! then I wouldn’t have to worry about them any more. especially the boring ones.