Some days I am *such* a loser.
Mar. 18th, 2003 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyWe have just proved that Truepenny would rather do ANYTHING than work on her dissertation.
I caught myself literally two clicks and a piece of software away from starting the Learn Greek Online! course brought to us by the island of Cyprus, also the providers of the Greek-English/English-Greek dictionary with handy Ancient Greek attachment which saves SO much wear and tear on my poor brain.
Now, to understand the full implications of this moment of insanity, you must know that despite the years and years and years of language classes, the Classics major, and all the rest of it, I hate doing language work. Hate it with a fiery Armageddon-like passion. And yet, there I was, absolutely on the brink of starting to learn Modern Greek via the Internet, because it seemed a more appealling intellectual pursuit than reading secondary sources on Hamlet. And that's arrant nonsense.
I caught myself, took a good long look at all those submerged thought processes, and went off to read a chapter and a half of Hamlet and Revenge by Eleanor Prosser. It would be more, except that she's insisting on leading me by the hand through the play, scene by scene, and I don't need her guidance, thank you VERY much. Or, as Spike would say, "I got bored."
If, when I've finished the dis., the Learn Greek Online thingy still looks like a good idea, I'll do it. But it is not a legitimate avoidance technique against getting the goddamned dis. finished in the first place.
Argh.
I caught myself literally two clicks and a piece of software away from starting the Learn Greek Online! course brought to us by the island of Cyprus, also the providers of the Greek-English/English-Greek dictionary with handy Ancient Greek attachment which saves SO much wear and tear on my poor brain.
Now, to understand the full implications of this moment of insanity, you must know that despite the years and years and years of language classes, the Classics major, and all the rest of it, I hate doing language work. Hate it with a fiery Armageddon-like passion. And yet, there I was, absolutely on the brink of starting to learn Modern Greek via the Internet, because it seemed a more appealling intellectual pursuit than reading secondary sources on Hamlet. And that's arrant nonsense.
I caught myself, took a good long look at all those submerged thought processes, and went off to read a chapter and a half of Hamlet and Revenge by Eleanor Prosser. It would be more, except that she's insisting on leading me by the hand through the play, scene by scene, and I don't need her guidance, thank you VERY much. Or, as Spike would say, "I got bored."
If, when I've finished the dis., the Learn Greek Online thingy still looks like a good idea, I'll do it. But it is not a legitimate avoidance technique against getting the goddamned dis. finished in the first place.
Argh.
