I can really understand that shelleyanne. Same situation with my bf's family. I found a trick to call my funding as "salary" and my work as "doctoral" research when talking to them But working from home doesn't help. Their usual question is "when will you start working again".

piglet & shelleyanne, I think this is one of the most annoying things about doing a PhD research. People insist on referring to it as a taught course. My bf's cousin was trying to understand and relate to my work the other day. After I finished explaining she said that a friend of hers was doing exactly the same thing, and told me about her 1-year access course to higher education in nursing. Now that was the most stupid comment I've ever received from anyone about my research. grrrr

Thanks rick. I know Athens, and been using it for the last 3 years. Now I'm trying to justify my methodologies on my thesis. But I still find it hard to name or define some of these methodologies . I have been using creative and experimental methods for my research, and sometimes I discover that some of the methods already exist and described by others.
(not at Bath, but seen a couple of threads about studying at Bath on this forum before. Sounds like a nice place to undertake a PhD research).

Hi. How about sharing some links to research and writing-up related glossaries? This one has not been updated recently but useful: http://www.bath.ac.uk/e-learning/gold/glossary.html

Are there other glossaries you find useful?

And the fact that the last bowl of your favourite breakfast cereal is actually cereal-dust, not whole pieces of cereal.

get well soon chrisrolinski. Weather will get better too, don't worry

lol juno.

(where did that "might" come from? Ignore the "might" in that sentence )

this thread might discusses a similar topic: http://www.postgraduateforum.com/showmessage.asp?thread=6817&cat=4&keyword=title&newview=1&stype=TM&category=0

I must add one more to the list:

- The labels inside the clothing garments. Grrrrrrrrr

I totally agree with you coastman

1) People who reply to the questions on this forum with "ask your supervisor".

2) Neighbours who listen to things like "Now 2001" loudly at 7 am in the morning

3) People drawing or writing on library books (as discussed before)

4) Russell Brand

5) People who call themselves nerds (not the real nerds)

where are you Piglet?

Happy birthday (why would you cry anyway? I hope nothing bad)

lol Ann, how did I manage to miss that one