perfectionism reinforcement

It's one of those lovely moments when I could make my life so much easier by just being a little dishonest. Don't try my hardest to find out what's really going on, when I kind of know it's something with ramifications I don't want to deal with. Can I actually be satisfied with that, though? Nope.

Turns out if you have trouble with this sort of thing, it's good to work in science. It's only a matter of time before someone else puts in the effort you didn't, and calls your half-assed work what it was.

(I really don't want to have this argument, though...)