Crunch Time

And no, I don't mean situps, unfortunately (sigh!). In fact, lately my workouts have been sparse and I'm starting to feel it...

Crunch time refers to where I'm at in writing up my dissertation for school. I have two studies and the first one is written up and ready to go, and now I have the second one to do which I'll be working at all week. My advisor is going away for all of the month of July and she informed us that we have until June 25 to hand in anything to her that we would like her to read before she goes. I have to make that deadline because I want to be incorporating her feedback while she is off in July. Then, by mid-August, I have to be ready to submit my copies to my examining committee so I can defend in mid-September and submit FINAL copies by September 21 if I want to graduate in the Fall, which I desperately do. So my life will be crazy this week trying to make the first of many deadlines to come.

Back to the workout dilemma. I'm having a really hard time getting in the number of workouts per week I should be. I'm averaging 1-2 a week this past month which really, really sucks! And being busy is no excuse as we all know. I know getting up super early in the mornings is not an option for me right now because I'm getting to bed so late from working on the computer. So, I just have to get better at getting in a lunch time workout even if I can only spare 20 minutes. Then once I get my dissertation draft in, things can get back to normal. Anybody got any cool suggestions about what works for you workout-wise when you're crazy busy?