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There are bugs all over the windows at work. It's a little odd to look out and see them just sitting there.
Psychiatrist is checking if increasing my anti-depressant dose helps the sleep troubles, since it's absolutely true that sleep and depression are quite intertwined. He wonders if the slowly worstening sleep stuff is an early depression warming. Could be, so we'll see.
Keeping in mind the general structure of essays is a thing I need reminding of. Thankfully, a patient![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
metahacker was willing to not only help with that, but with other specific recommendations for my grad school essays. Now I have something to aim for when I work on them, which is good because I was stuck from having spent so much time looking at them. I knew there were problems, but not what they were (most specifically, the fact that I have very little to connect my paragraphs together, or to introduce the essays to the reader).
On the other hand, I clearly do know how to write essays. Just got back my score from the GRE, and the essays score was maxed out. It's easier when it's not a question of something long enough that I lose track, though. And when - as with my longer LJ posts - things are forcing their way out of my head. Longer things, though. I lose track, I forget what my larger goal is, and I have to do it over the course of multiple sessions which only makes the first two worse.
Also, I need to work on shorter sentences. *is entirely too fond of long, run-on sentences* This will probably be helpful at work, as well! Poor readers, getting lost in my long sentences.
My dreams can stop being unsettling, creepy, and/or actively nightmares _any day now_. I suspect that this will only improve when my sleep and headaches do.
Meeting a researcher with interesting research topics tomorrow! I have glee! This will, if it proves as interesting as it seems, mean that I can start the essay for that school. I can, mind you, use the existing in-progress ones as a resource.
It's perplexing writing essays for schools where either I do not know which researchers are interesting enough, or who have either not responded at all or only very briefly. I tailor my essays to specific people a rather lot, it seems. They are much harder when I cannot do this.
(totally working on writing shorter sentences. It's _hard_!)
Sooooo sleepy.
[edit: I did not choose an icon for this post; I _think_ it may have grabbed it from my mood selection?]
Psychiatrist is checking if increasing my anti-depressant dose helps the sleep troubles, since it's absolutely true that sleep and depression are quite intertwined. He wonders if the slowly worstening sleep stuff is an early depression warming. Could be, so we'll see.
Keeping in mind the general structure of essays is a thing I need reminding of. Thankfully, a patient
metahacker was willing to not only help with that, but with other specific recommendations for my grad school essays. Now I have something to aim for when I work on them, which is good because I was stuck from having spent so much time looking at them. I knew there were problems, but not what they were (most specifically, the fact that I have very little to connect my paragraphs together, or to introduce the essays to the reader).On the other hand, I clearly do know how to write essays. Just got back my score from the GRE, and the essays score was maxed out. It's easier when it's not a question of something long enough that I lose track, though. And when - as with my longer LJ posts - things are forcing their way out of my head. Longer things, though. I lose track, I forget what my larger goal is, and I have to do it over the course of multiple sessions which only makes the first two worse.
Also, I need to work on shorter sentences. *is entirely too fond of long, run-on sentences* This will probably be helpful at work, as well! Poor readers, getting lost in my long sentences.
My dreams can stop being unsettling, creepy, and/or actively nightmares _any day now_. I suspect that this will only improve when my sleep and headaches do.
Meeting a researcher with interesting research topics tomorrow! I have glee! This will, if it proves as interesting as it seems, mean that I can start the essay for that school. I can, mind you, use the existing in-progress ones as a resource.
It's perplexing writing essays for schools where either I do not know which researchers are interesting enough, or who have either not responded at all or only very briefly. I tailor my essays to specific people a rather lot, it seems. They are much harder when I cannot do this.
(totally working on writing shorter sentences. It's _hard_!)
Sooooo sleepy.
[edit: I did not choose an icon for this post; I _think_ it may have grabbed it from my mood selection?]