The thrill of the chase
Sitting on my backside all day trying to read reviews and papers to get an idea of what I’m meant to be writing in my introduction/literature review for the thesis.
One book open to my left about imaging intercellular transport, flicking to and from the references to track down a few cited papers in conjunction with Firefox and databases and the library website. A review in front of me, with other references being chased up on a completely different topic. Another book to my right with yet another topic and more references to look up. Find a reference, give it a quick skim, and find a few more references to look up from that paper.
For each 1 paper I read, I find another 10 to read. It’s fun chasing all these papers but if you never get to the end of the chase, the reading gets a bit tough. Very tough.
Snowballing comes to mind.