Yellow Dress Challenge Day 3: Colorful Comfort

First of all, I want to say thank you all for your comments and votes on my hair conundrum yesterday!  I'm not going to do anything for a couple more weeks, but the general consensus about going shorter ended any remaining indecision.  I will be getting my hair cut a week or so before my defense.  In the meantime, I'm going to get as much updo action out of my longer hair as possible.

For the third day of my dress challenge, I went with a colorful and comfy combination of dress, wrap sweater, and flats.¹  I had to make a brief trip into campus to run some errands, and I met quickly with one of my advisers while I was there.  I spent most of the day reading and writing at home, though, with the sunlight and fresh air streaming in through the windows.

 

 1. Dress - Signature by Robbie Bee (remixed)

Wrap Sweater - Banana Republic (remixed)

Flats - Steve Madden Girl (DSW)

Earrings - Target (remixed)

Would I be more productive working somewhere else, such as a the library or a coffee shop?  Maybe, but my dog has such horrible separation anxiety (she's on drugs for it, but they only do so much) that it breaks my heart to leave her for more than two or three hours at a time.  Plus, when I work at home, I have constant access to cups of hot tea, which give me the energy to read, write, and take breaks to stretch and jump.

I've been trying to rev myself back into excitement mode about my dissertation because I know enjoying working on my project will make this round of revisions before my defense much less painful.  I've been working to rekindle the excitement that I felt in the earlier stages of researching and writing.  I've been doing some free writing and re-reading some archival documents in an attempt to relight the fire.  It hasn't entirely been successful, but I am infinitely less frustrated with my project now than I was a week or so ago.

How do you rekindle the romance between you and your research or the work you do in your profession after you've passed the "honeymoon" stage?