LangeMemo2

Habits Neuroses Talents
 * I begin writing papers in the middle after which I continue to the conclusion, and only then do I write the introduction and literature review.
 * I’m in the habit of listening to either //Le Cid// or //Die Kindertotenlieder// while analyzing and coding data.
 * I generally begin working (reading, writing, etc.) on the hour, work for 50 minutes straight, then take a ten minute break.
 * I schedule my work down to the minute, e.g. read Nisa for 110 minutes (with two ten minute breaks) then work on this memo for 20 minutes.
 * I must begin writing on the hour, viz. if it is 12:02, then I have to wait 58 minutes to begin.
 * I am incapable of evaluating my own work.
 * I intensely dislike reading my own writing; this makes proofreading especially difficult.
 * I write and rewrite sections of papers in my head several times before I can begin typing them.
 * My system of revision tends to be like Montaigne’s; I’m always adding new text and never deleting anything.
 * I constantly pace, which tends to annoy people I live or work with.
 * I tend (over)use Latin abbreviations as a crutch.
 * I’m worryingly close to being a chain smoker (oral fixation?).
 * I read German well and speak it passably; I read Spanish passably and speak it terribly (perhaps the last of these is not really a talent).
 * I am dogmatic about citations.
 * I’m a quick study.
 * I have an extremely good memory for things I have read.
 * I genuinely enjoy reading social scientific literature more than I do reading fiction.