i think you're right too keenbean, it's a bit mad what's shes asking you to do especially if you are already pushing yourself to the max. In my first year I refused to do weekends, I did evenings if necessary, but I thought if I start slow then I'll have plenty of time to work my way up to the madness of final year. One of my supervisors gave regular digs at me needing to do more work, but I knew I was doing the required amount and since Feb/March of second year I've been steadily ramping up the pace to the point where now if I'm not doing work I'm not sure what to do with my time! I knew there was no chance of me keeping this pace going the entire time, I started my PhD straight after my undergrad and was already shattered from that!
Maybe you can put the case to your supervisor that if the follow up study is so good and so important that she feels strongly about it being done, it would make a good basis for postdoc funding?! then everyone's happy and you get a bit of job insurance for when you're finished! plus, the final year always throws up more work that could be done so you could end up with plenty of things you would like to continue working on 3 months away from finishing!

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whooo Sue that's fantastic news!! Aww I'm so chuffed for you!! What a great incentive to get stuck in and get your first draft done, at a rate of 23 tomatoes a day you're flying! I wish I was as good as that! I could do a great 23 tomatoes of faffing around I'm sure though! Aww really, I'm so pleased for you!! Just made my night! :-)

And alpacalover, I'm not submitting until September, but I really really really want to get it in for then, it's my mums birthday shortly after so it would be just the best present for her! Plus the sooner I finish the sooner I can get job hunting and hopefully find something where my boyf lives and quit the long distance! Still have tons to do, not even started my final experiments yet which I still have to even learn how to do, have to write a paper and finish collating data for one of my studies, so I'm trying to get as much writing done in the meantime - one of my sups, the evil one, has a tendency to ask for rewrite after rewrite and doesn't tend to be bothered by deadlines so it could be a long drawn out affair if I'm not careful!

But we will get there, onwards and upwards!!

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just think wally, you've already knocked 90 minutes off with the first one done!! and good work sneaks with your interviews, I hope tonights last one is going ok!

I'm slowly getting there with my methods chapter, I keep remembering things that I've done and haven't included so I have added in about another 3 sections and just remembered about another one!! Nearly there though!! I'd love to get it all done before I go away tomorrow but some of the data I need in the office so I don't see me having time to fit it all in! Ah hooo! Just another bit to go tonight!

OOOHHH!!! Happy Birthday Alpacalover!! slightly belated but sure what the hell!

Good work on getting writing today, it's definitely more the thought of writing than the actual doing that's worse so I feel your pain!! And don't worry about your supervisor, when you get his reply sit with a nice drink before you read them and if his comments are still mean then get stuck into those biscuits and chocolate you've got, take a couple of days to let the comments sink in and deal with it when you are ready. You are on the home stretch now, only a few more months of his idiocy and you are free. That's what I tell myself about my evil sup anyway! :-)

Things have been going extremely slowly for me this week too, I hate working from home sometimes, and I can't settle properly this week! Can't wait to get back into the uni on Monday!! If nothing else, as I'm in a big open plan office I can't fanny around on the internet as much as I do at home! :$

get well rid of him girl!! Fair enough if you are staying friends in the hope that when he returns to where you are then you might give the relationship a go, but if that's not likely then no point beating yourself up about it. Take a break from guys, enjoy having time to yourself and who knows, you might just love it!
I remember doing an English project in my first year of school. It was about love (God knows why!!) and I did a short survey of everyone in my class to get their opinions on love. We were all 11/12 years old, so obviously we knew what we were talking about! lol! However, one very wise girl told me 'Love is a universal migrane'...I didn't really get it at the time but I remember it made all the adults laugh heartily, and now, ah now, I understand only too well!

lol sneaks, it's great being a poor student isn't it!

Well, I return with success this time, I have done goal 1, yay! Hopefully I can get goal 2 done tonight, which is to add in the second batch of data to the chapter, but I've got a lovely word file printed out that has exactly what I want to say, but I cannot find the actual computer file anywhere. Not on my memory stick, hard drive, work computer or laptop. I must have deleted it in my infinite wisdom and now I basically have to copy in the printed version. Ah hoo, better than starting from scratch!

keep trucking on everyone!

i wish i could help with the questionaire thing but I've not got a clue about that stuff...yet again I've still done no work, due to having to go into town and get stuff for tomorrow, and then i took myself off to the gym for a circuits class...I now can hardly move, my shoulders are throbbing and I'm afraid to stand up from my chair in case I fall right over...maybe that might be just what I need to keep me at the desk and doing work! :-) and 12 tomatoes are good wally, I'm aiming for a target of 16/18 in a day though, maybe I'll work my way up slowly so I'll get there in about 2 months....

lol, that sounds like great fun! :-)

Just thought I'd share this, it's a novel by Sebastian Faulks called Human Traces, and there is a lot of psychiatry stuff in it and quite a bit on the theory that evolution has indirectly led to mental illness. It's not the most scientifically sound book or course being a fictional novel, but I thought it was an interesting introduction to the idea. The only work I've done on Freud and Jung was in 6th year in school and I really enjoyed it, but haven't actually studied it in any great detail. Could be something in it though!
I hope you're starting to feel better about things Teek :-)

lol, I missed all that new stuff on the garryck thread, I didn't see it was removed! Aww, he made me laugh and I got to exercise my debating brain! Not very difficult of course as all he talked was complete chuff, but it was funny!

and forgive my stupidity, but what's a sock?! In relation to PGF of course, not the kind you put on your feet! :-)

morning folks! Slept in again today, need to get that sorted sharpish!
I kind of didn't quite meet yesterdays target due to cleaning ovens and all that, so todays first target is to finish what I was meant to do yesterday. I got a good bit done in the end but I'm starting small today in an effort to trick myself into doing more! I'm away for a uni club trip tomorrow so I really really want to get this done today or I'll be taking it with me tomorrow, booo!
Good luck everyone, papers and analyses, it's all going on here! (up)

lol Sue I think I should have just waited a week to see my normal doctor, she's usually nicer! I've also been told by several people to 'just don't stress as much'....wow, I should have thought of that myself! Although it has given me a valid excuse to go and get a full body massage tomorrow, oh yes! :-)
So today I need to get this chapter done, or as much of it as possible, slightly freaking out that I still haven't started my last set of experiments yet, if it all goes this slow I'll never submit on time. I really wish Easter holidays weren't happening, the uni is closed so the heat is off so I have to work at home cos it's freezing in the office and I'm wasting so much time. And the person I'm doing experiments with isn't in again until next week. aaarrgh!

Good luck with your rewrite MaltildaL, I'm sure you'll get it sorted in no time :-)

lol, sometimes i wish i could do this but when working it just goes straight to my head! :D I can hold my own on a night out though, maybe it only goes to my head when I'm writing cos I know I'm not going out dancing and I don;t have to pace myself for the next 4/5 hours drinking! that sounds so bad! :)
anywhoo, I'd say if it helps the writing then go for it, but maybe don't keep on going after the writing is finished unless you fancy a few more drinks! :) A guy in my office finished 6 months early and had a couple of tins (ie 8!!) every evening and was out most weekends!

oooh id go for the tagliatelle! I'll be having pasta myself tonight, with tomato sauce and bacon bits :) although I do have a bit of a craving for scrambled eggs and toast, perhaps tomorrows lunch then?! :D

hmmm...I don't know if it's a combination of being in the final few months or discovering that there are little or no jobs out there these days, but I would say if you have a job that you are happy with now and you really aren't sure about doing a PhD, perhaps it's best to hold off for a while. If you really enjoy writing about your subject that won't go away if you don't do a PhD now, and to do one for the sake of it might leave you lacking in motivation at a later date. It might be too easy to say you've tried and it didn't work, if it gets too difficult for you and then you might not have a job to go back to. However if you feel that having the PhD will help you in your career in the future and it's really something you decide you want to go for then definitely do it, but I would say if you have a job that you are happy with now, don't give that up too easily. But good luck! (up)