A really great quiz on academic writing practices with my responses:
In the three-day period before your last major research deadline, did you:
- Spend more than five hours a day at work on this research project? Absolutely not. I’d be dead of exhaustion if I did something like that.
- Spend more than one hour a day worried or panicked about said project? God, who has the time to worry for a whole hour?
- Complete more than 10 percent of that project within those three days? I’m not intellectually capable of doing this. Honestly. I know my limitations. I just get foggy-brained and tired.
2. Has a (non-laboratory-based) research or writing deadline ever:
- Caused one or more of your children to be sad that you were unable to spend time with them? I gave birth at almost 40. So obviously not.
- Caused a partner to be sad that you were unable to spend time together? I’m not married to a passive-agressive fellow, so no.
- Caused you to cancel a social plan in which you actually wanted to participate? OK, I’m stumped because the phrase “a social plan in which I actually wanted to participate” is not comprehensible to me.
3. Have you:
- Taken a full weekend off in the past month? Every single one. I have a 2,5-year-old, so it’s not optional.
- Gotten through an entire vacation, intercession, or family/medical leave without feeling that you had to use that “free” time to “catch up”? Vacation yes. Post-surgery, not so much because I hate to be an invalid.
The linked piece has great suggestions, too.
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