I don't know what goes wrong. I came home early today to work a little bit more efficiently than I would at school. However, I ended up recipe hunting, cooking, cleaning up, and watching TV. It's the pattern with me. I have tones of work to do. Here is the story. I'm an international PhD student who worked so hard to get here and do the things that I have opportunity to do now. I chose to come to Seattle, because my boyfriend (at the time) was a navy officer stationed out here. I started to work as a research assistant at the University of Washington. I liked my academic advisor so much. He convinced me to apply to UW for my PhD. I was a little bit hesitant, because I always wanted to go to the east coast for graduate school. After getting a signal from my boyfriend that he would stay here with me after he was done with the navy (he had two more years to go), I applied to UW and got in. I accepted their offer (obviously). Through the end of my first year at the school, my fiance (at the time) applied to graduate school on the east coast. He got into Harvard and decided to go there for three years leaving me here. Last summer we got married. Of course this long distance didn't work especially because I moved to Seattle for him. So, he's taking the next year off to come here to live with me in Seattle. After that, I'll take a year off and move to Cambridge and finish my degree there. Since I have such a limited time, I have to be more productive. Instead, I'm being the laziest person in the world. The things I have to do in the next year are very overwhelming, but with a strict schedule, I can manage it. I've also been upset about my productivity. Before I came to the US I was socially 'super active'. For example, I was singing in a choir and I was a director of an audio recording  of children's fairy-tale project in addition to organizing some concerts and other music related projects. My social life ended after I started to the graduate school. 

Anyway, I guess I need to be more determined and realize the importance of the time that's passing fast. Nudge nudge Serap!