Up kite, up!

Working on my thesis is like playing a never-ending game of red light green light. Only usually I'm stuck at the red. Especially on Mondays. By Friday I manage to work up some momentum and I know where to start in the morning. After a weekend of roller coasters and bike rides and Harry Potter movies and wine tasting and barbeques and swimming in the Russian River, I've lost all momentum. And now it is Monday and I've forgotten what my project is about and what I need to accomplish and why I'm still in school and what degree I'm working towards.

When I get stuck I start by making myself lists: goals for the end of summer, goals for the end of the week, goals for the end of the day. But for some reason, getting past the list seems impossible and the urge to work on my portfolio instead of my project is overwhelming. I really wish there was a GO button I could just push that would jump-start this process.

I imagine this process is a lot like frog (from Frog and Toad Stories) trying to will his kite into the sky saying over and over again 'up kite, up' while pulling on the kite string and grunting. The scary part is that I'm pretty sure frog's method didn't work.