Some people have been complaining about the lack of posts on this blog. This blog is called Thesis Procrastination, and the simple reason is that I’m not procrastinating at the moment, I’m trying to get the damn thing finished.

Until I do, sorry, you’ll have to make do with old YouTube videos and the (hopefully) steadily increasing word count in the sidebar.

When I return (hopefully very soon) I promise new cocktails, new stories of student stupidity and lots of posts about my new hobby.

Of enrolling in a PhD that is.  

I accept your congratulations on my 5 solid years of thesis procrastination.   On the bright side, I only have 3 more years to go.

I think I’ll go home early and drown my sorrows. 

Encounter 1:

I was walking back to my office and heard this deep voice behind me say ‘thesis thesis’, and when I turned around, there was nobody there.   My supervisor had evidently ducked into an office./p>

Encounter 2:

I was standing in the corridor talking to a couple of colleagues when my supervisor walked past in a rush and asked ‘Sarah, what are the three magic letters?’ /p>

My colleagues looked at me bemused as I called to his now disappearing back, ‘P H D?’.    ‘Exactly’, came the faint reply from down the stairs./p>

[And isn't it telling that I don't actually have a category related to my PhD on this site?]

Back in 2001, there were several procrastinating students working on our BCom Honours dissertations. To relieve some of our tension, we began to send each other emails with snippets of poetry about the dissertation writing process. Between myself, Geoff and Smrithi (aka Smooch), we ended up with 38 separate poems, mostly single-verse limericks, but some longer and other formats.

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