I have learned something very valuable about myself in the last week. I eat when I'm writing. I eat a lot. Well, I snack. A lot. Like the addition of 5 pounds of eating a lot. and carrots and fruit just don't cut it. Cookies, however, do.
Ugh. This dissertation has already taxed me, my immediate family, and now my poor mother who is a superhuman babysitter.
How many pounds am i going to gain finishing this up?? This is a bummer dude. Too many pounds that the burning of calories during breastfeeding is not going to burn back off. I guess I escaped the freshman 15... so is this my penance? the doctoral doubling?
See... in my writer's block this morning I can't even come up with a witty phrase.
ugh. Looks like it's going to be a long week.
2 comments:
It's not you, it's the Girl Scouts. No human can resist their evil cookie ploy. xoxo, Sum
So my department is now running a regular dissertation boot camp for advanced grad students who are trying to get the damn thing done, more supportive than the name implies. One the Lessons Learned that the last group came up with in debriefing is that it's okay to eat constantly while writing if that's what will get you through. In other words, if you're actually getting the Really Hard Thing done, you can and should see the food as a critical component in that and let yourself off the hook. It's too much baggage to be beating yourself up about writing and beating yourself up about diet at the same time.
The other way to look at it: Sometimes actors temporarily have to put on weight for the sake of a role. Sometimes writers do, too. :)
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