Permission to be frustrated?

I’m having a real hard time accepting the fact that the rest of the world doesn’t revolve around my research results! What are they thinking! In my mind I have some extremely small asks. Tiny surveys that won’t take more than 2/3 minutes of people’s time. Getting things on time. Or at all. And above me, around me I have this feeling like there is an enormous clock ticking ticking ticking.

Working 7 days a week doesn’t really help because it means there is no down time. My weeks are too busy with work and the daily everythings so I’m packing all the research into the weekends and occasional evenings.

I have to keep reminding myself that I need to be thankful for the 1/2 of students who did reply not be annoyed with the 1/2 who didn’t. To be happy with the teacher who DID have her students do the survey in class not cross with the other 2 who sent it home for them to do when they had time (duh.. as if any student would ever do it then?)  I’m just mega frustrated as these are the bits that are preventing me from getting to a draft stage because there is just not enough data to make the comparisons and conclusions I want to make. I’m just glad I’m not writing this for a peer review journal because I can poke holes a million miles wide into my research at this point and I’m not satisfied.

Do I take the weekend off? Will that make it worse or better? Maybe it’s time for a list of the gaps, and some editing of what I have.