Dissertation Procrastination Naps and Stuff

I'm not procrastinating, but I remember, now, why I had such a hard time with it when I was struggling to make headway on this dissertation.

I get sleepy nappy at about 11:00. That's about when I start really writing my dissertation. Writing apparently makes me sleepy. I just had two double-shot lattes, but I still need a nap. If I were doing anything else (playing with babies, writing a blog entry, reading other blog entries) I'd be perfectly alert. But writing and editing the dissertation makes me sooooo sleeeeeepy. I'm sure it's an avoidance thing. At this point, I hate the document so much (not really, but hate writing it) that I just have brain shutdown. Maybe it's just that I don't like the chapter I'm working on... I dunno. The Buffy chapter was the easiest, and it's currently out for comments, so I can't work on it.

So that's why I have taken so long, and used to make so much progress on this blog writing thing. Instead of going ahead and surrendering to the nap, because that feels too slacker-y, I blog or something. And the logic is that if I'm writing, it looks like and feels like work. It is sort of in a writing teacher way, but it isn't really productive writing.

So now I want to go into the living room, instead of working on this four or five pages of editing I have to do, and take a nap. Is that so wrong?

On the twin front: the babies are still adorable. Last week I bought them black onesies. Sean's is a Johnny Cash one, and Maia has a The Cure t-shirt. I will post pictures soonish. They look adorable. But for some reason, them wearing the black onesies makes people think Maia is a boy. They usually don't do that, but they kept saying "look at the cute little boys" yesterday. Weird. People. Girls are allowed (no, required sometimes) to wear black too. How else will she be mommy's little goth if she doesn't have black outfits? And they're getting tons of teeth. They are superteethers, apparently. Maia is getting, like, four at once. But maybe this means they'll get all that teething out of the way and we'll have months of uninterrupted sleep.

Last night, they slept from about 7:30 till this morning (with breaks for eating, but it counts as sleep since they are adept at "sleep eating.") They missed bathtime and everything! I think it's the dreaded allergens that are clogging up my sinuses too-- they just don't feel great and want to sleep. But lordy, it was weird to have them go to sleep that early. I actually didn't like it; it messed up all my normal routine and I just didn't know what to do with myself.!

Now, back to work.