It has not been easy to try and keep the various elements in my life from functioning together. In an effort to get the draft of my thesis' introduction done therefore, I cut back on the other things such as blogging which is a shame considering I see it as a welcome distraction to these other elements. I shall however, now attempt to keep it a regular feature of my schedule, and I realise that my problem was that I lacked the organisational skills in order to keep everything going. Thus in order to keep on blogging I needed to do a slight rearrangement of my life.
I realised that the PhD -although clearly needing to play the largest role- should not take over my life and that it was simply not feasible to keep on working on it constantly. So I have decided to only work on it four days a week, as long as I work for eight/nine hours on these days. This leaves me with the rest of the week and the evenings in order to organise the other things.
The second thing for me is that I need to excercise regularly otherwise I cannot keep the concentration up to keep this schedule. I have managed to join a local swimming club and I am now paying for a gym that happens to be very close to both the archives and the library, so going there after the days work is very practical.
This is not a schedule that is new to me per se, but I have as yet not had the ability to implement it, so I am hoping that it will work out this time. Having a clear cut schedule seems to be the way for me to get the feeling that my life is working again.
