this is the look of a dissertation writer who has had a lovely non-dissertating weekend but now it's monday and has to get back to it. i never take whole weekends off from work. this weekend, though, made me think about something a once-friend told me about grad school, about approaching it like a regular old job...taking whole days off so that when you are working, you're really working. might this mean that i'm finally ready for some balance in my life? if my suspicions are correct, then one's dissertation is really always ultimately about the writer. so it's not a stretch, i guess, to think that i'd figure some key things out about how i want to live and work in the process.