Monday, May 15, 2006
A New Week Calls For a New Work Plan
Accountability is important, right? Here's my plan for today:
Oh right, because the PhD is just so rewarding. [/end sarcasm]
- start laundry as soon as I'm done wasting time on the computer
- write Dracula paper from 1pm-4pm. Remember to take reasonable breaks for food, air, etc.
- after writing, clean up the house a bit
- read some Trollope (I'm loving Phin Finn right now -- le sigh)
- eat something and go for a walk/jog
- make myself a decent solo dinner after the walk/jog
- read more Trollope
Oh right, because the PhD is just so rewarding. [/end sarcasm]
doctor T 12:15 p.m.
2 Comments:
You have friends who bought a house here? And could afford it? I fully understand that difficulty, of watching other people be able to afford it. Before we decided that I was going to do my PhD right after my MA, we were going to be living in a small Saskatchewan town, where my husband was teaching. We would have been starting off in a nice house, with little debt. So much for that.
Well, as they said, they really own very little of the house -- their parents own 1/4 of it and gave them the down payment, and that's why they could afford to buy, and the bank owns the rest. Plus, she's a medical resident, so the bank plugs in her anticipated income rather than her current income (although her current income is still more than double what I make).
Victoria is a pretty brutal place to buy -- to be fair, most of our other friends live in other parts of the province or country where the market isn't as stupid.
But hey, it's pretty here, right? Sigh.
Victoria is a pretty brutal place to buy -- to be fair, most of our other friends live in other parts of the province or country where the market isn't as stupid.
But hey, it's pretty here, right? Sigh.