Even my displacement techniques feel like too much effort.

[truepenny]

O the work I am not accomplishing today! It is legion.


Kathmandu, after some really quite extraordinary olfactory gyrations, settled down into souvenir de lemon bars: sour-sweet and rich. I am still completely unable to decide whether I like it or not.

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[boji.livejournal.com]

You don't know me (in that I'm basically a lurker) but God this sounds familiar! In regards to displacement techniques do I hear you.

I am struggling through a final draft of my MA dissertation that has to be handed in on Friday. It's at the polish and pray stage, otherwise known as the please-god-let-me-not-smash-this-into-smithereens stage. And I can't look at it, unless I look at it sideways, approaching it like I would a bee with a rolled up paper.

So... displacement. I hear you.

Good luck with the broken novel and the redraft.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhh yes.

None of the current sturm und drang is as fraught and awful as the last throes of my dissertation work--and it's good to be reminded of that. No matter how horrible this is, that was worse.

But I sympathize greatly with your situation. Good luck!