Anti-Climacus

STRANGE BUT TRUE: For reasons I don't entirely understand, writing feels less like doing work to me than anything else in the grad student stable of activities--even when, as today, I'm writing down as fast as I'm thinking. Perhaps this is because it's the least physical of all the things a grad student does. Even reading, you at least have the tactile progress of moving through the book, however slowly. Maybe I should start doing drafts by hand (I already do revisions this way, and not coincidentally enjoy them much more than the original writing).