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I'm not entirely certain why I'm bothering to post. I think I'm just having a wee bit of trouble motivating myself to accomplish things. That said, three items on today's list are done, so I'm off to a decent (if slow) start.

Now, the things about which I'm procrastinating are the following:

• Finish preliminary reading for article.
• Take out trash.
• Make outline for article and consider how I'll incorporate the stuff from the original conference paper, figure out what I need to expand or change, etc.
• Write (i.e., draft, type things in, etc.) for four hours (with breaks as necessary, but with a timer so that I'm sure to actually do the four hours, though at this early stage I can do what I need to do in front of the TV if I want).
• Sort laundry.

Now, why am I procrastinating about these things?

• If I finish my reading I'll actually have to begin working. Ewww.
• I'm lazy.
• Thinking about reworking a conference paper into a full-blown article is exhausting and nothing ever seems to work as is, which is kind of demoralizing and frustrating.
• Writing's for losers.
• I'm lazy.

That said, I do feel that inspiration will hit me around 4 PM or so with the article-related stuff, so rather than beat myself up about not working, I think I'm going to just give myself permission not to do anything related to that until later. As for the other stuff, perhaps I'll do some sort of thing where I watch tv or play around on the computer or something but with a timer, and when the timer goes off I have to do the other things on the list. Ah yes, this seems like a solid plan.

(I might be the most boring blogger in the world when I'm in one of these writing phases. That said, it does help to write about what I need to do, and I hope that watching my "process" might be useful to somebody for something, though god only knows what.)