Getting in the groove...

Today wasn't as productive as I'd hoped, but it was definitely more
productive than yesterday. It started with an early morning coffee
from Tim Horton's with Hasnain, and I got right down to my research work in the office.

After much consideration of how to organize my research, I came up with the following technique:

• Go through readings in reverse chronology
• Take notes on specified subtopics for each reading (since the kind of research I'm doing has sort of a specified template to follow in the related journal articles) on separate index cards [I did this using software instead since it makes it much easier to transfer the info to a typed document]
• Maintain a mindmap for each article read guiding how it references it other articles
• Once you've gone through each paper, you can arrange the topic by subtopic and study the different trends in current research from different sources
• Use the mindmaps of references to guide further reading in different branches

This worked out great, but the going was slow - barely got through one paper when my energy started waning. So after that I wasted some time surfing for different desktop clients for twittering and blogging (posts coming up on that soon). When I realized I wasn't going to get much more work done for the day, I decided to give up and went out for an hour's walk.

Once I got back home, took a shower and ate some food. Then, got to rearranging the room some more - made more space for myself, and even made my lazy boy usable again (currently writing on my Blackberry from there)!

Finally, met up with Shawn - bought a white shirt to work for Sodexho for a formal event tomorrow, and headed to his place to play some Halo 3 on the Xbox 360. And now I'm back here updating the blog from the Berry.

What's up for tomorrow? Continue work on the literature review for research and then working for Sodexho serving people @ a dinner. Not much planned for tomorrow, so don't expect much of an update - and my "Grocery Analysis" will have to be put off for just a bit.

TODAY'S DIET: 1 tomato + egg sandwich, glass of milk, bowl of cereal, 2 cups of black coffee (no sugar, no milk)

(NOTE: this post will be updated with links and better formatting once I'm back in the office in the morning and have access to a proper computer)