I got the contact details of 62 people who are potentially willing to help, so I was happy about that. I just really hope they do help now when I'm further down with the research and need them to participate. :-)

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Thanks to Golfpro, I downloaded a load of academic books using the address he gave me. There's some brill and current ones in there, with good reviews on Amazon, on how to write papers and such like that'll prove really useful. Anyway, I downloaded them, liked them and have uploaded them at the following address for those of you who do not have demonoid but would like them.

Hi lara,
I had a bad presentation yesterday that I was supposed to use to recruit participants. I kept pronouncing my words wrong and I came across as a bit thick - but I had to get up at 4-30 am to get there so was knackered. So in the end I looked like a sweaty wreck on amphetamines. And I'm still struggling with ethics forms and have loads of stuff coming up - so :-(

I can empathise with you. Like Juno, I've been having to work long hours and am having trouble sleeping and trying to get stuff done. I'm not sure you can treat is as 9 to 5 (often I can't at least!) and sometimes have to work for much longer. I therefore think you can't treat it as a 'regular' job. I know this might sound silly, but have you thought about writing drafts of chapters? Maybe doing a literature review paper for submission to a journal (if that's appropriate)? Do you have an interim assessment coming up that you can prepare for that require academic writing?

Prehensile

Cheers for this Golpro! :-)

Hi Pamw. I'm a GTA and I teach 6 hours a week. As a GTA it is recommended that you teach a maximum of 6 hours per week, or a total of 180 hours per semester spread however.

Walminskipeasucker is drunk and laughing hysterically at the impossibility of the work he has to get done! hehe! He's going to look and feel like shit tomorrow, but that's tomorrow so he just doesn't care. He really can't wait until all this crap is over, but has a sneaking feeling that this is what it's actually going to be like if he works as an actual researcher.

From which dark recess did you crawl out of, Aloha? tut tut. She's back and she's means trouble, Aloha has returned, oh how my stomach churns. It's not the Pot Noodle I has for dinner, it's that's she has the gall to call herself a winner.

Please can you call the white molly, Stevo? That's a slight variation on my real name :-)

Phew, thought I was partying alone tonight, Chrisrolinski! What's on your agenda, if you don't mind me asking? I'm doing lecture presentations for lessons I have next semester.

Wow, if I show your dedication and determination to win on this thread to my PhD, I can be certain to pass. The thing is Smrh, if you want to take me on, you need to realise that it'll be the equivalent of opening Pandora's box. It's going to be messy, bloody and a lot of other innocent forumites could be frightened and humiliated. But if that's the price of collateral damage, then so be it. But what about you, personally, smrh? I hear you're a girl? [I'm not really being sexist! This is just like pantomine!] I'm all for equality, but you do have gender-related limitations, such as an overriding compulsion to clean kitchen dirty kitchen utensils and toilets. Now this means you are effectively handicapped, so just walk away.:p