Thoughts on an overused simile

[quislibet]

I started to tell a friend of mine last night that I thought that writing my dissertation was like pulling teeth, but then I realized that the only teeth I've ever had pulled were my wisdom teeth, and for that I was put into a chemical stupor, and when I woke up, it was all done. So perhaps the problem is that writing my dissertation isn't like pulling teeth.

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[quislibet.livejournal.com]

I seem to have lost the ability I once had to write 25-page papers of respectable quality in an evening.

Possibly I burnt out those circuits my first semester in grad school, when I wrote four papers, from beginning research to finished printout, in three days.

Whatever the case, now I write a sentence, change it, look something up, and then check my e-mail, and eventually it's time to go to the Y or whatever.