{"id":943,"date":"2012-07-12T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=943"},"modified":"2012-07-12T19:14:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:14:28","slug":"channeling-your-inner-writer-through-bribery-beer-and-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Channeling Your Inner Writer through Bribery, Beer, and Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_945\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?attachment_id=945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-945\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-945\" class=\"size-full wp-image-945\" title=\"pedicure\" src=\"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pedicure1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Procrastination Pedicure<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having written up much of my data, it is now time to return to the other chapters I\u2019ve already written. I need to examine them and complete the bits that I had decided to leave until I had had a solid look at my data. Today was to be a major writing day. But, that was not to be. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I started the day rising at a reasonable hour after an horrendous, overnight thunderstorm that left many people in the neighboring city flooded out and shoveling hail off their lawns. Sleeping through the thunder and lightning was nearly impossible. Nonetheless, I completed my daily ablutions and set out to a favourite coffee house to peruse another students\u2019 completed doctoral thesis. I was starting to visualize how the rest of my chapters would come together\u2014yet I felt this wave of overwhelmedness (I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s an actual word, but it describes how I felt) wash over me.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing this feeling, I went for a pedicure. Whilst waiting for the pedicure, I noticed this new shop with jeans from Brazil and Columbia. They\u2019re supposed to be very curvy and \u201cbum-lifting.\u201d I had to try them on just to see what the hub-bub was all about. Yup. Nice products. So, I purchased what is probably the most expensive pair of jeans I\u2019ve ever purchased. (I don\u2019t regret it because I\u2019m usually pretty thrifty.)<\/p>\n<p>So, then, I decided to go for lunch and read. But, I noticed the local paper. Needless to say, I read that instead of my chapters. Then, I came home and took a nap\u2014after all, procrastination is tough business.<\/p>\n<p>And, now, here I am. I just wrote one sentence in my methodology chapter, and I switched to blogging. Next, I will turn on some music and have a sip of beer to see if that will loosen up my inner muse. I\u2019ve just got to write something.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_944\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Procrastination Pedicure<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having written up much of my data, it is now time to return to the other chapters I\u2019ve already written. I need to examine them and complete the bits that I had decided to leave until I had had a solid look at my data. Today was to be a major writing day. 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