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I raise the blinds and open the window beside my bed. This is the first thing I do every morning so that I can people-gaze for a few minutes before starting my day. It is remarkably bright and lovely out. It's a shame that I need to prepare for my class because I can lie in bed, drink coffee and read.

I have been, what, blogging once a week? I had a breakdown last week during midterms: I obsessed about my paper which basically ate such a large chunk of time that I couldn't think outside of it. I don't recall going through too many rough patches as an undergraduate; in fact, I used to be able to pull an all-nighter. Alas, it has been 3 years since I graduated -- I no longer have the energy to stay up and write. So I am trying to be mindful of my constructive (and destructive) writing habits and see if I can forge new ones as I continue to learn more about this academic self, whatever that really means.

I am reading Writing Your dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day; of course, I am not in a Ph.D program, but it helps to develop personal stategies that work best for me -- e.g., writing during the day, which I think is better for me. Though I've always believed that I'm a night person -- so I have quite a bit to discover. The first step is, well, sitting down to write for 15 min abou anything really -- questions and speculations about research materials or just life in general. So we'll see if I can write at least every other day if not every day.