It has been quiet for a while...but that is not because I have not been willing to blog, but because there was simply nothing relevant to blog about. Talking to some friends in the last couple of weeks they couldn't believe me: "You...doing nothing exciting? How can that be possible?" Well, it is the thesis looming. After I finished my internship in july, I have only been working on my thesis, working for borderconcepts a little and learning Arabic (well, that will be exciting one day but until now I can only write my name and read words I don't know the meaning of).
The whole thesis-writing thing turns out to be much more exhausting and slower than I anticipated. Even though I have always heard everybody say that, I thought that for some reason in my case it would all be different, I would work very hard on it, full-time every day. But, even though it took some time for me to realize: Writing your thesis takes time. I am not a fan at all, but I guess it is a necessary evil that every academic has to go through sooner or later. After reading useful articles the whole july and part of august and working quite hard, I entered a slow phase. There were weeks where I had to come up with special reasons to leave the house (apart from going to the gym and the supermarket). Well, it saved me a lot of laundry, I got a good work-out and am quite relaxed now. By now, I don't have these troubles anymore, since I am slowly starting to find a job (which is a whole different story) and have found a number of reasons to leave the house on a regular basis. I have even discovered the library for study purposes, which has highly improved my productivity. Today I moved my desk around in my room, hoping to improve productivity and motivation even further (I am trying to put myself under the Hawthorne-effect). Still, I haven't been on a plane since the end of july (which is a sad record in the past 3 years) and there are just no exciting things happening to me. Having dinner with my dear Coniurata last week, we discovered that we had much more going on at the age of 15 than we do now. How sad is that.
So in order to improve this situation, last week I decided that I need to do something that scares me every day. I enriched the meaning of "something that scares me" with "something that I normally wouldn't do" and "something that I feel slightly uncomfortable doing". So, these are the things I have done since then:
Friday, October 23rd: Call company x and ask about the status of my application
Saturday, October 24th: Wear HighHeels all night at a wedding without bringing backup-shoes
Sunday, October 25th: Go to the Münster fun fair and actually take rides
Monday, October 26th: Call company and ask about the status of my application, but nobody picked up the phone
Tuesday, October 27th: Selection Day at company z
Wednesday, October 28th: Get a call from company z (I didn't do it myself, but I also needed a day of rest since tuesday was double-scary)
Thursday, October 29th: Go to the Utrecht Career Event and talk to recruiters
Unfortunately, I haven't found anything scary to do today yet. It is already 4 pm, so I doubt I will find something. Maybe I can do a scary yoga pose at the gym. Or I could start SPSS-ing the results of my pretest. That is exciting, because without useful results, I am basically screwed. But I am still open to suggestions on what to do today. Even though nothing truly exciting has happened to me yet, I already feel much less bored. And I have a lot of fun things coming up: going to H&M at 7 am to fight for Jimmy Choo pieces on november 14th, going to the Amsterdam Wedding fair with my photographer friend Jenny to find her new customers, going to a job fair in Germany, Halloween, conducting research for my thesis and talk to random people and many more things. I will inform you if something really exciting happens :)
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