How to not do something....

Its 7am and like most Wednesdays I'm up, showered and getting ready to leave for university. This is the joy I get for the 1.5hr commute. I'm not complaining but when your lecture doesn't start until 9.30 its a real kick in the teeth to be up.

I'm looking around the bedroom, Victoria is still in bed and I'm longing to be laying next to her just as sound asleep. Suddenly a thought strikes me...

... the lecture today is only an hour long. Is it really worth the effort of travelling all that way for Research Methods and listen to someone talk about questionnaires when you are using an interview for you assignment? I don't think so. In fact I wasn't even going to listen. My plan was to go and continue with the assignment on my netbook while he spoke.
Something one could do from their own bed.
oh this isn't a good idea. so I wake V up who groggily tells me to just get back in bed.

I don't like to disobey so I jumped back into bed, just about as fast as the guilt set in. I'd better actually do some work I thought. So out came Vivian (my netbook) and I commenced doing my research for a literature review. I was settled crawling through dozens of journals and ebooks looking for something, anything relevant to my question.

It was this sudden burst of concentration that led to V leaning over and hugging me. A little irritated by the disturbance I carried on. Eventually after a bit of convincing from my wife all concentration was gone. vanished. There was no way of working now.

A new problem had appeared. The realisation of all the work I had to do before the end of the semester. I still have to develop a phone app, get it working and advance enough so that I can actually get a decent mark from the computing school for a change.

I need to complete this Research Methods assignment I have hardly started AND I have an exam tomorrow. Wo is me!

I'm not saying this to make you feel bad for me, oh look how much work he has. But more of a warning! Don't be fooled by the image that students get an easy ride. Don't think a degree is easy. But more importantly... Don't do work in bed. If you share the bed with someone it annoys the heck out of them and they will stop you. that is why from now on all work will be done in the study. We got it for a reason. lol. but seriously. This is my second blog and I'm using it as a public declaration to get my butt in gear! I need to focus and produce. a first class degree isn't going to just present itself to me.

This is Counting Rocks signing off. my your work be more productive then mine!