Writing and not writing

I've been attempting to write my thesis all day. Well not all day since I did do some cleaning up of my old experiments just to have a break. Now I should be writing about powder x-ray diffraction but I just don't feel like it. I did get two new articles on the subject but it's no use if I don't read them. The biggest problem with writing is trying to figure out what to write in the introduction. It's supposed to be about the subject in general. ("Esitetään aihe yleisellä tasolla" is the only instructions I have for that.) I just don't know what to write in the introduction. It might have been wise to actually start writing from the introduction so as not to now fear all the time that I may be writing stuff I may want to write in the introduction elsewhere. Problematic. So today I may have spent an hour just fiddling with the styles and stuff and just looking at the screen and trying to think about what to write or trying to get myself in the mood to write. And this is only the theoretical part I've been writing. The practical is in no shape at all. Last week sometime I actually organized the layout a bit as in I did the table of contents so when I do feel like writing I'll have already organized where I will write things.

I'm not stressed about this thing or anything but I only have like one more full week to write things before going to Finland and there I will have to have some sort of version of the theoretical part for my professors (yes, there is two due to me doing organic stuff and wanting to be an inorganic chemist though most likely only one of them will actually read the thing). I have no idea how in good shape it should be before they read it. I'd kind of like it to be in quite good state so as not to feel embarrashed when handing it over. Though the point is that they will comment on it and then I can make it better and if I think it is too good then I will just get disappointed. So maybe it is good that the thing sucks at this point. Or well it does not suck since "I am a really smart person and thus can not write anything that truly sucks". There is still lots to do on it though and I haven't really read some of the parts that I have actually written after I wrote them. I am waiting for when I have all parts "as good" and then I will make them all better and then try to do the same thing again. The problem is that I was never a big fan of checking test answers or anything like that so I might have to stretch myself a bit to actually care enough to do it properly.

There we go. I had to tell someone.

On a lighter note. I finally got my hair cut last weekend. It looks jsut about the same but only shorter. Before going I of course got the "oh but my hair looks great - I don't have to cut it" -thing I always get before going to have it cut. I do actually think it would be better a bit longer now. I think I will just have to wait it out. The place I went to was funny. I paid like 15.50 for the haircut and them "washing" it and then I styled/dried it myself with their products. It was kind of fun because I am sure the hairdresser would not have got it right and I did arm myself with my own hairspray just in case. Though one of the fun things about going to have one's hair cut is getting it done nicely afterwards. As in with me "oh it can look nice and go in directions I may want it to go in if I spend that much time on it... good to know if I ever have the energy or care enough" My hair just does what it wants sometimes. Many hairdressers have battled with it. I think it looks just fine when the ends point the way they want as long as they don't fly around being all static.

I got this calendar free outside the gates yesterday. It is one of the ones where there is a sheet that you rip off for every day. I was like "thanks". Then I got home and noticed that all the pages don't have like Larson comics on them like would be nice but have quotes from the Bible and such. I should have known. Then I just had to go round my room saying things like "it is the German word of God... from the Holy Book... learn German through God's word... thou shall be saved" with a really American accent. It was fun. I put the calendar up and decided to use it next year. Then every morning I can read God's word as I start the day. What could be better.

A neighbor of mine practices opera singing every day and then again last night at like midnight.