Oh I love Ikea, can I come?! My friends are taking me there next week as a special treat, originally intended for my post hand-in treat (see 6mths thread, ugh) but now it's my cheer me up so I don't actually kill myself treat.

Ikea catalogue is online now, and there are some super nice bedrooms, and the wardrobe storage...ahhh amazing.

Well, in the midst of what is possibly the worst day ever, I have just one goal...finish the thesis. Handing in tomorrow. And my uni online journal access site has just gone down today, as I'm doing references. Wonderful.

ugh, I promise next week I'll be in better form...

Chin chin!!

I can only aspire to such greatness! But truly good advice given, every corner of those 5 stars was well earned!
(gift)


- mods, we need a champagne icon!!

It will end Wally, don't worry. Have you tried the tomatoes during the day? Sometimes if I have lots of distractions and end up working in short bursts I get more done, cos I'm actually working when I'm at my laptop...and then sometimes no matter what I do it doesn't come. But, it will end.

I'm signing in myself tonight, final proofing and corrections to be done before bed, and if I'm not too shattered another crack at references....ugh.

Oh Gosh sorry Emaa, it was Emmaki!! Sorry, I'm submitting in 2 days and a bit brain dead at the moment :$

Glad you are feeling better after your fitness class though, sometimes exercise is just the trick.

I'm just adding changes to my final chapter, then I shall sit down and go through all of them to make sure I have included everything I need to, figures etc match up and my discussion chapter matches the conclusions of the other chapters! Knowing me I'll have concluded on something totally different...

ok, appendices done, going over my discussion chapter next and making changes....coffee is brewing as i type...

Aw jeez Eska, (((((massive HUGS)))))

today is totally a day you should take off if you are feeling a bit out of sorts. It's not just that it's a health scare, things like this make you question everything, bring back often painful memories and even though things are ok, you find yourself questioning things. I've never had a scare like this personally, but in the past 3/4 years I've buried my aunt due to bone cancer, 2 friends mothers due to breast cancer and one of those girls brothers has also just got the all clear for brain cancer. Not to mention the various scares my own mother has had with heart and kidney problems, and her sister almost died a few weeks ago due to kidney problems.

I cannot even say how relieved I am for you that it's ok, but you definitely deserve a day off, to do whatever you want. I'd suggest not spending the whole day on your own, but whatever suits you best. And definitely big up on the malteasers!!

Whoo!!

Fantastic news Pjlu!! Aww I'm so pleased for you! Enjoy that moment when you hand the thesis over, I'm submitting on Friday and trying to convince myself it's a good thing!!

And have a bloody good break, take some time off work if possible and enjoy having your life back for a while!! (up)

Omg!!!

Best news all week!! :-) Congratulations guys, I feel so lucky to have ever communicated with you both!

From what I remember Emaa you've just broken up with your boyf? So try not to be too hard on yourself, your head will be a bit all over the place for a while yet, then you'll settle and will be back to work like normal. But it can take time, so be kind to yourself!

Sneaks, good luck with the stats. This morning I'm finishing off my appendices, trying to make sure it all matches the text ok and then proofreading my final chapter to see what I need to change. Today is the penultimate writing day. Golly gosh.


(* in case anyone wonders, Golly gosh and the like are phrases I had to say when I was working in Clarks shoe shop and had to find a way of saying 'F*** me, get this bloody child out of my road' without actually saying that. Cue phrases like golly gosh, jeepers, oh dear, good golly...it's sad, yet true. or maybe it's sad because it's true...)

ok I can;t actually see the screen anymore and my head is spinning , so i think that's bedtime! night all! Good luck Teek and Wally :)

Aww Teek, what's going on? I remember you saying you were staying with your friend for a while, are things sorted with your husband yet? It's always a crappy time for things like this to happen. I was about to book myself onto a flight home two weeks ago after having a big row with my boyf, we didn't speak for 4 days, longest ever. Eventually got sorted though but it's just such a strange period of life.

Are you trying to work tomatoes? Sometimes it doesn't work for me though and just need to waste time enough to get it out of my system, have you tried that at all?

whoo, chapter done. first draft of my final final final ever chapter. and I can't even enjoy it cos I'm off to do appendices now...

Totally fine Wally. My boyf submitted around the 50 000 word mark and it was fine. I think I'll be around 70 000 and am actually worried I'll be too long, I was hoping to keep it as short as possible for my examiners. I think if you've written concisely then you'll be a winner if they don't have to wage through pages of text just so it looks bigger. Plus, at this stage, I think the writing will always look crap, I know I feel my thesis is a big pile of turd ('scuse the terminology) but I'm just telling myself if it was that bad then I wouldn't be allowed to submit. Although I'm also preparing myself to tell my family and friends that I'm downgrading to MPhil, if I'm told at the viva that it's not PhD standard I think I may just say ok, that's fine, I'll take my MPhil and get on with my life.

'Eh up folks, signing in again! tonight's motivation is if I can get myself through the next three nights/four days, I can then sleep myself silly as I'll have handed in. God. So, first up, finishing my discussion chapter...on we go!