big girl in a small city: breaking the pain barrier

About Me

Name: j

Location: Perth, WA, Australia

I'm a sporadic organisational psychology phd student, full time day dreamer of alternative careers: cafe/bookshop/day spa lifestyle village empire entrepreneur; artist; travel writer; domestic goddess; property developer; fashion designer; retiree; organic farm/bed n breakkie; wife to billionaire heir; buddhist nun. when i'm not entertaining the above in my head, i'm busy navigating through life battling with myself to find eternal happiness armed with a skinny hazelnut flatwhite in my hand, twinkle of passion in my eyes, love in my heart and a barrage of great friends n family by my side.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

breaking the pain barrier

SIGHHHH.. today has to be one of the longest days of my life..

recently i've made a resolution to finish my thesis before march 2007.. this means from now on.. i'll be head down bum on seat mode.. however, not in a million years when i first started the PhD (not even when i was writing my proposal) did i envision experiencing this much pain.. both psychological and physical.. this is why PhD = Permanent Head Damage..

at least now i know i do have a brain becoz of the pulsating pain i experience behind my eyes as my brain protests the amount of knowledge i'm trying to cram, synthase, and integrate... it's difficult to articulate what's so complicated about writing a thesis that can implicate such pain..

but after a day of hard slog, i have to say, apart from 10 pages of verbal diarrhoea, an elaborate plan to kill myself by bubble wrap (complete with illustration), and an overwhelming desire to stabbing my eye out with a/any utencil (which i imagine would be less painful than writing the thesis).. this is all i've got to show for it..

1 Comments:

Snowie said...: Well at least that picture shows you working haha Although not sure if you messed your desk up on purposee just to take the snap... Tee Hee; 3:40 pm