Mission Impossible

The trick to get work done is to get started. No task is as difficult as the brain makes it.

On Monday, my doctor told me I am fine, but I ll have to undergo a major surgery in Leiden to end the oozing saga. I had no excuse to stay home . Time to pick up the thesis work from where I left it a month back. But the unfinished delayed work on thesis seemed like peak of mount-everest.
On Tuesday, I somehow overcame the fear and went to my work-station at Aerodynamics Lab. No one noticed the band-aid on my left ear. Even if they did no one showed on their face. So far so good.
As I assessed my work load its enormity of work sent a cold chill down my spine. How the hell am I going to finish my work on time.

Fight or flight ?
I decided to stay and fight.

And all of a sudden a miracle happened. I found the stupid bug in my code.
I ran my simulations, produced some nice graphs and wrote a one page report.
Suddenly, the work did not look so much of a burden after all.

Next three days, I have been working like a dog: I read a lot of literature, produced few more graphs and plots, made appointments with Phd students and played Table Tennis with colleagues at lab (yes, we have TT table in our lab !!).

Its amazing what all you can accomplish by just getting started.