{"id":5134,"date":"2024-10-31T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","slug":"not-enough-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5134","title":{"rendered":"NOT ENOUGH TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t even cope with November&#8217;s arrival the day after tomorrow. When I get my computer back, I need to get serious about moving forward with my dissertation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I reserved a date for my youth retreat which is supposed to become the cornerstone of my project. And I feel pretty confident that I can get my curriculum together by the time that weekend rolls around at the end of January.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BUT &#8211; I still have not reworked my prospectus and there&#8217;s no guarantee that it will be quickly or automatically accepted when I do.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And at this point, it has been so long since I last worked on the prospectus, I am not even sure I can remember what I need to do to address my professor&#8217;s original criticisms.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The time crunch makes me very anxious &#8211; especially since I leave two weeks from tomorrow for a 10 day trip to Ghana. That means these next two weeks will be extra busy. And then I will return and step right into Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And after Thanksgiving? I am having trouble convincing myself that I will have time and energy to do my academic work during the lead up to Christmas! (And rightly so!)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often, writing things out like this helps to ease my anxiety, but tonight &#8230; not so much.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even cope with November&#8217;s arrival the day after tomorrow. When I get my computer back, I need to get serious about moving forward with my dissertation.\u00a0 I reserved a date for my youth retreat which is supposed to become the cornerstone of my project. And I feel pretty confident that I can get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5135,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}