Sorry to hear about your situation and totally understands the feeling low mindset. I'm at the last leg of PhD and its probably now that I finally got over it although not completely. First, I would agree with the other posts as you seem to have a fairly understanding supervisor and even if you don't see her few days at a time thats not at all bad. I sometimes dont see my super for months, but its just that would they be there when you really want to see them. You will need to slowly explain all this to the supervisor sooner than later. Believe me its better to ask for help from the suitable people (supervisor, student services, graduate school) than bottle it. Life goes on as well as the PhD, so things can happen that muddle each other's status. If you think your supervisor would understand just ask her for some time off and talk this situation through and also about the MRC money problem. Get help when you need it as some wounds needs the appropriate medicine to heal rather than time. :-)

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Have this kind of days more often than not. The thing that I would say coming to the last leg of my PhD is that keep these feeling aside as you never kind of get over them, stop thinking about the actual outcome (will be good/bad) and just write! anything for that matter. You are on the upper level when it comes to qualifications, so just use it to your advantage. Just don't let the quality of the outcome worry you too much before you have actually put it on paper on computer for that matter. Good luck keep dancing...oops keep writing! 8-)

Thanks for your input guys. Found a way round it by not using inset citations option and going to endnote, selecting the citation and then using insert. Anyway hope that will work and that CWYW iinsert citation is corrupted or something.

I really getting no where with a problem I've been having in inserting citations using CWYW. I'm using vista and endnote X2 version. A solution please?
-When I insert some citations (Smith & Jones, 1990), it comes up in the document as (A.B.Smith & Jones, 1990). Tried changing commas, full stops etc but its still the same and more annoying thing :-s is that it's only for some references not all inserts.
Has anyone come across this ?

Thanks guys!:-x I'm kind of over the panic mode I was on yesterday and keep hitting the keyboard with utmost power and hope that it will gather words from wind and air etc ;-). Just out of curiosity, what is the word limit for MPhil in social sciences as someone mentioned it in this thread?

:-) Thanks Bilbobaggins! I think I just went to a panic mode and alarm bells started ringing in my ear. After few hours hammering on with the writing I think I'm much more calmer. It seemed that I could not write even 4-5 pages a day which was the aim when I started. So I better get a good night sleep and start over tomorrow as it will probably help to clear my worries and anxieties.

I'm finally back to writing which I was supposed to be doing from Sep but had so many things happening in my life that it became impossible to sit down and begin the writing. Now I'm back to it, (although not so much time is going into that as I hoped) the no of word keep me bit anxious. I'm planning a 6-7 chapter thesis in social sciences and the word limit is 80,000 max. Currently, I have abt 11,000 in a lit review and the second chapter which I'm writing now looks like its going to be around the same amount. So, acc. to my maths I will end up with a 60,000 thesis,:-( which worries me, or maybe I shouldn't. Please share your thoughts and experience on this-anyone who known how others have written or if you at the end stages of writing?:$

I'm starting on my fourth year which in my uni is the write-up year where you pay a lesser fee. It's only one year so, it took me 3 years to do all my work and now I'm in full write-up with some analysis left to do. By the end of 2 year, I knew I had to go on the write-up year as things were progressing slowly with data collection. I'm yet to publish either, but hoping tag that along when I do some write-up this year.

I'm starting on my fourth year which in my uni is the write-up year where you pay a lesser fee. It's only one year so, it took me 3 years to do all my work and now I'm in full write-up with some analysis left to do. By the end of 2 year, I knew I had to go on the write-up year as things were progressing slowly with data collection. I'm yet to publish either, but hoping tag that along when I do some write-up this year.

Hello everyone!
Amandaf- we'll keep our fingers crossed for the extension to be reconsidered
Lara- Great job abt finishing ch-4!
I'm still pushing the first results section to be finished.
back to work

TUNE

Hi to Fiona, hope u r keeping it up. I'm fairly new to this writing madness as well.
Tractor girl-congrats on your job, you will get more confident as you go on. But be happy that you got it and you like to do it which most people don't find just after writing.
My progress has been clouded by family issues for the past few days and uni stuff which is the annoying admin things that goes wrong. But I'm back on writing today and need to finish off my first results section at least by tomorrow. Then hopefully get a start on introduction before next week.
Good luck to all -keep sitting on that chair and go on & on & typing!

Use a chapter for each case and within that have an intro, method, results, discussion section each and do a large discussion section in the end which could include critical analysis of the why you chose method 1 for case 1 etc. so you will have 'chapter-2: case 1'

I've also read 'never let me go' on a plane journey that took about 14 hours so it did make me a bit miserable, but a good story. These days I'm reading 'Half of a yellow sun' and very gripping story where the author has not wasted any words which I saw a lot in Salmon Rushdie's shalimar the clown', which again was a goo story. (shouldn't be reading these I'm supposed to stick to my writing tasks;-)

LANE