pretty please? :$

Does anyone know how to get rid off this: I have a big list of references atthe end of the thesis, but the author's name in one of them insists of appearing in bold. How can I stop that from happening? Changing the format in Word or re-formatting bibliography doesn't seemto help. Every time the document is re-opened, the problem comes back.So I assume, I need to sort that out in Endnote, but how?

thanks Walminski. Ear plugs seem to make it worse but I'll search for noise cancelling headphones on Amazon now. The in-ear ones I use at the gym aren't blocking much noise.
I hope you are having a good evening...

Exactly. Life is too short for that anyway. Besides I really like your attitude about asking him for a direct answer. Why not... I probably wouldn't be able to do that but I still think it is the right attitude. If everyone acted that direct, there wouldn't be this much bull$h1t around.

lol Stressed! Maybe it only happens in the last few weeks of submission. My nails were fine and growing madly until last week.
But then again, I managed to add 3000 more words to the thesis today. Maybe I should test by erasing some words permanently from it, and I might be able to watch my nails grow :p

maybe there is only certain amount of nail that can be available to humanity at one time. I'll wait 'til you decide to have shorter nails in that case :-)

Lol :-). hang in there Walminski. Hopefully it will all be done before you start listening to some original Hanson.

Thanks Sneaks. Good idea but this is the only place I can work due to a long-list of reasons. I guess I'll have to extend my gym hours to get rid of the anger. Or I could get someone to kidnap the kid until the end of June. He can then suddenly re-appear in a moses-basket after my submission date.

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lol DanB. aww H, I can share my post-its with you. And, that was not how we got the post-its ;-)

Thank you for the answers, I really appreciate both views.

I am not really looking for total silence, honestly. I can ignore the other noises they produce, and believe me they are a busy and noisy household. Being used to living in a city I am good at blocking unavoidable noises usually. There is a train station at the end of my garden for example and noises like that don't bother me.This is different. No matter how much you try to block via headphones or ear plugs, it does hit you right in the brain. And I try to block with high tempo techno and bass music, even that doesn't block that particular noise for some reason, only makes it more uncomfortable to bear.

If I had a kid, I would try and avoid renting a flat above another. These are not purpose-built blocks and it doesn't require a rocket-science degree to work out how much nuisance a kid can cause to neighbors in a Victorian converted house.

I'm so broke and short of time to try other options. I'll hope I won't go crazy. Sorry to use this as a crying-stone. Even writing down helped me calm down a little.

Chrisrolinski, I'm following your other threads. Good luck with the submission. Let's have a forum-party at the end of it, messing it up big time :-)

Well, I haven't got much experience with kids, and I am really really trying to act sensible here but I am about to lose my mind about something. So it would be great to get opinion from anyone, especially those with kids or have experience with kids:

A seventeen-month old darling moved to upstairs flat almost two months ago, and killed my happiness and peace since the day one. He constantly runs and jumps during the day above my room where I write my thesis, and from 6 in the morning right above my bedroom. It is an old house with wooden floors (although most areas carpeted), so you can imagine how the noise echoes in my brain and turns into the noises of war-zone. The mother's argument is: "it is a baby, you can't possibly expect me to stop him, he is excited and lively". My argument is: "yes but you need to try and teach him so at least in time he learns not to do this in the house." I don't know what to do, can't move out, and have only 2 weeks to my submission and I need every minute to concentrate. I kindly reminded this to them, but nothing changed.

Am I being unreasonable? Besides I've never had a single problem with the previous neighbors for five years.