On the second day of Whinemas, the troll gods sent to me...

2 blistered heels

• I posted a sad farewell to my old docs back in mid-October, but I've actually been wearing them ever since. Today is approximately the fourth time wearing my new ones because it's taken me that long to get around to waterproofing them (hopefully now they'll last longer than one new england winter). Four wearings isn't enough to make me friends with them yet, since they're still all stiff so I'm tempted to go back to my old ones (except for the pouring rain, which would get right into the enormous hole)

and a huge lack of motivation

• it really is the gift that keeps on giving. My alarm first went off at 7.30am this morning so guess what time I left the house. No, later. Later. Yep, 10.30am. How much of that time did I spend lying in bed reading blogs? about 2.5 hours. So, of course when I arrived at lab at 11.30, my advisor was right there to see me sheepishly creep in. Then of course, I proceeded to set up my computer and finish reading my blog roll. I also spent a couple of hours at a reception this afternoon and am considering postponing the remainder of my experiment to go to the movies... I read academic coach's post about increasing productivity with self-monitoring, but I think if I kept track of exactly how little time I'm spending on real work lately I'd become too depressed to do anything.