I went to a how-to-do-a-PhD course at Uni last week. They said to do GANTT charts. I came home and did one on graph paper when I could have been spending time reading about Spanish or reading Spencer 1991. I discovered graph paper is no use because you have to keep rubbing out bits and redoing it as time passes. I thought I’d download some software to do it, but it has to be free, of course. Annoyingly, but perfectly understandably, the free stuff isn’t as good as the unfree stuff. Not to worry. I found and downloaded some software and set about putting my pencil-on-graph-paper chart into software. This has taken me all morning, when I could have been spending time reading about Italian or reading Jackendoff 1975. This has been good.

The downside is that now I know exactly what I’m supposed to be doing and when, which is really bad for a procrastinator. I look at the chart, which I’ve printed out and stuck up on the wall. It’s horrible. It’s telling me to do some work, but worse than that, what work to do. I’m avoiding the work by telling you all about it.

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