A Case of the Blahs at an inconvenient time!

I had hoped to use the time during my winter break (ideally before Wintersession started) to read, summarize, and research all the literature necessary to putting together a draft senior thesis proposal that I could present to my advisor at the beginning of Spring Semester. Yet here it is, the last week of this so-called break, and I've barely picked up a book that I've checked out from the library (due on the 31st), much less read the PDF's of journal articles that I downloaded over Thanksgiving break......so what gives?

I think part of it comes from a case of the 'blahs'....a condition or state of mind that I enter at the end of every break from school that's longer than a week. During this time...all I want to do is...well....nothing related to being productive, just surfing the net, especially Facebook and Golden Key inCircle, and reading books that I would normally put off during the semester, as well as hanging out with friends, walking the dog, and watching movies.

Another part of it is that I've been thinking long and hard about graduate school, even though I'm a junior and still have about a year left to go and several major classes/projects/hoops to leap through first, like the dreaded WPA! It's a really difficult process (I've discovered) identifying what areas in Geography I'd like to focus my studies in, and then finding schools and professors that match those interests along with other considerations. Of course, this is typically me - looking far ahead into the future, even though there are plenty of things (like that proposal!) that ought to be occupying me in the present.

Finally, I guess I have to admit that putting together a thesis proposal is very brain- and time-intensive...and that maybe I'm putting too much of a time pressure on myself, and need to extend my internal deadline to the beginning of Spring Semester and not the end of this weekend!

In any case, as is obvious from this post, I really don't like being stuck with this case of the "blahs".....but am having a hard time booting it off me (or me away from it) and getting movin' and groovin'. Hopefully I will be able to do so, now that school is about to resume next week.

Hopefully I will post an update in a reasonable timeframe....although give the time between this and the last post....that may be wishful thinking. Ah well....maybe if I get some feedback it will motivate me to post more often.