Hi Everyone

Just checking in for the evening. Been to the gym, had some dinner and now ready to start the night shift! Think it is going to be a long night!!!! Swantje: Well done!!! That is fantastic news!! You must be so pleased!! What an acheivement, well done. Make sure you do something nice at the weekend to celebrate and good luck for Thursday. Well done again, really brilliant news. Armendaf: Hope you are ok and that the dentist's went alright. I had a filling fall out a while ago and that was a real pain so understand it must be awkward. Hope everything is ok now. rubyw: DM was a distraction!!! Really good, i think i might have to buy the box set!!!! Hope you had a good day, thanks for your message and yep the headache is gone! Still need to write the contents page etc though so am starting it in a minute! Hope you met all your aims for the day and good luck with the writing tomorrow. Lara: Good luck with the introduction and well done for doing so well today, you are really getting there now, nearly there!!! Hope you are ok though and that the cramps are gone. Don't over do it tonight, i know you want to get loads done but don't worry as there is all weekend too! I know i am fussing but i don't want your cramps to come back because you are doing too much!! Fussing i know but take care. I am also going to try and stay up for a while and have also had my can of coke!!!! Here's to a good couple of hours work. good luck and will check in later!!!
Speak later on
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PS What terrible weather, there is a major storm outside, think it will keep me awake!!!!!

Hi Girls,

Checking in for the night shift as well here.

It turns out that only about 30% of my tooth is still sticking out and it is so thin that rather than a molar it looks more like a front tooth. I knew it was going to be insanely expensive to repair it, and that I could not afford the time nor the money to get it fixed right now. So I went there with the idea to get it provisionally filled or covered in some way so it would be OK for the time being until I finished writing. But the dentist said that he couldn't do anything to it and that I was better of leaving it like that and to come back when finished. I just need to be careful of maintaining the area as clean as possible; There is no decay or tissue damage, and it is not sensitive for the moment. The only thing he did was to reduce the remaining of the tooth so it doesn't have any mechanical interaction with any other tooth to avoid the risk of getting it further fractured. Still I had to pay the visit which wasn't at all cheap. Thanks for asking.

Rubyw - Good for you the pics are sorted and that is out of the way now. Good luck with the writing and editing now. If you are working the night shift post a note.

TG - Welcome to the night shift, and yes, the set box helps a lot. I have hours and hours of Stargate Atlantis, CSI, Private Practice, Ghost Whisperer... you name it, queueing up in the digital recorder, as well as numerous films that I think I want to see, whenever I'll have time. I always do a bit of back log clearing when I break for a meal :p

Lara - You are doing great, keep it up but do not overstretch yourself. Finishing that chapter this weekend is a good aim, and you should have time to start organising for the remaining ones as well. I hope your are feeling better.

Swantje - Congratulations on finishing the thesis. You really need to take tomorrow off and relax before starting your revision for the exam. You have time if you start on Sunday, and you'll make the most of it if you are well rested. So, go on enjoy yourself tomorrow. Although you might be having the same crappy weather we are having over here; You can always indulge in a duvet day though ;-)

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thanks everyone! was walking around today with a big smile on my face after sending it in. was in the uni library for an hour (then i fell asleep so i decided to call it a day), preparing the exam. i haven't actually ever done anything in the topic, so technically, it's not revising, it's new acquisition :p thankfully it's a relatively new field, so not MASSIVE.

hope you all do well tonight, i'm off to bed "early" today, trying to get back into normal sleep pattern again and VERY TIRED. haven't slept more than max 5 hours/night for the last week because of panic situation and computer problems.

Hi Everyone,

Although i am planning to work until 2 am (won't have everything done but at lease most of it!!!) i am posting now because my computer seems to be playing up and if it crashes later on i might be too tired to send a decent post!!!! Swantje: Hope you get back into the normal sleep pattern quickly and once again a massive congratulations for today, brilliant!! Armendaf: sorry to hear about the tooth, i know what you mean about the expense! The dentist is so pricey it's unbeleivable! I heard somewhere that if you are in prison though you get free dental treatment!!!!!!! It doesn't seem fair!!!!!! Hope your work is going well. Lara: Hope you are ok and that the can of coke is working!! I have been trying to cut down on caffine over the last few months so am now buzzing after my can earlier on!!!!!!!!! Hope your evening is going well. rubyw : Hope you had a great day and if working late that is all going well. Well i had better get back to the work! I have the best of james bond playing in the background, it's now on Duran Duran's "A view to a kill" What an absolute classic!! I would turn it right up if it wasn't for the neighbours below!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy working everyone and see you tomorrow!!!!

love reading everyones updates and posts during the night shift especially, dont feel so alone!

just thought i would post a quick note. i'm going to get something to eat, as feeling hungry. just finished the introduction section, finally. but noticed i am repeating the same thing in several different ways near the end, where i'm talking about my aims! lol so i'm going to let it marinate and look at it with fresh eyes to cut out the repeats and just pick one!!

but am now moving onto the discussion section, finally !!! but before that, just gotta do one more result analysis that i figured out during writing the introduction section, wont take long.

total words i have written since my last login which was at 9pm, is 1549 words.
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am watching "just friends" on bbc1, a cute romantic comedy.

Armendaf, so sorry to hear about your tooth, sounds painful! what terrible timing for you.
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swatje, get some sleep!! and rest up tommorow and chill , you deserve it. and like armendaf said, once your rested, you will be able to hit the books and revise more effectively!

TG nice to have you up and that's great that the caffeine is working. i dont drink coke, probably just a can once or twice a month, so when i do drink it,, i am also buzzing! i've been saving the can of coke for later on though, havent touched the stuff yet, will bring it in when i start to feel sleepy. the nap i had during the evening worked in keeping me alert right now. thanks so much for caring and telling me not to push myself so much, you are so sweet! i really appreciate it.

thanks Armendaf also for your encouragement and support!

yep you guys are right, will use this weekend to get the chapter finished and then work on the other chapters. thanks :-)

yep i wont stay up all night, as that tends to make me feel sick and crappy the next day, will try to get as much done tonight until i feel sleepy.

okay, going to get some food, be back around 1ish

I think that's it for me. I can't concentrate any more. I'm going to bed. Sorry I can not keep you company any longer. Don't work too hard yourselves and get some rest.

Talk tomorrow,

Hi Everyone!

Hope everybody has had a good night and that noone is under water!! I live quite near to one of the areas that was flooded last year and was thinking a repeat performance may happen last night! I have never heard rain quite so bad!! Lucky though that the roads are all fine today. Last year i drove my car through what i thought was shallow water only for it to die on me half way through the puddle. THe next thing i knew was that the water started rising and was up to the car door!!!!!!! I had to abandon the car, stay at a friends over night as i coudn't get back home as all the roads were shut and then the AA collected the car a few days later!!! Mind you least i was lucky not to have the house flood and i really felt for all those people, i think it is only now that some of them have been able to go back home.
Anyway, just checking in for the day. I am planning to get loads more tidying up stuff to do today as i will have chapter 7 to do next week. My sup is getting it back to me Monday and i think it will require a lot more work!!! Apart from that i still feel i have loads to do and am doing my panic of not thinking i will make the deadline. I must try to stay calm, we can only do our best, but it is so hard. Anyway well done to everyone for getting so much done this week, we should be really proud and we are all getting there. Armendaf: Hope the tooth is ok today and hope you have a great day. Lara: You have finished the introduction!! That is fantastic!!!!! Well done, that is a really big achivement, you should be really proud and you are nearly there! I think it is brilliant, and you really inspire me to get some more done today. Hope you have a great day. Rubyw: Hope you are well and that you have a lovely day today. Well done again on the pics, i understand that it can take ages to sort stuff like that out but you have done so much this week and are really getting there.
Anyway, hope everyone has a great day, i am working till 5 pm tonight as then i want to get a place in the pub for the football tonight! Have a great day x

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Hi everyone,

I'm working today too. You've all done loads since I last checked in, very impressive!

Lara, you are whizzing ahead now! You must be so pleased to get a decent chunk of writing out of the way, you can actually feel like you're making progress and nearly done! As the others said, don't overdo it with late nights until you know you're properly ok though, not sure coca cola is down as a remedy for cramps! Loved the idea of letting your intro marinate overnight lol, but so very necessary!

Tractorgirl, hope you get your bits and bobs done, sounds a good plan for the weekend to get it out of the way before the next feedback comes in, especially if you've got a football break planned too! Interesting to hear about your music to work to, it's one of the things I really like about this forum, that everyone is doing completely different topics and has such varied musical tastes, but we're all having the same Phd experiences. I am quite intrigued by some people's usernames too, including your's!

Armendaf, annoying about the tooth, but good that you don't need loads of extra work done on it. Dentists must be glad we don't all live on mushy food or they'd have a lot less work! Yep, CSI is great, though I'm not mad about the Miami and NY spinoffs, don't think they have the same depth of character as in the original Las Vegas cast.

Swantje, well done on finishing your thesis!

I fell asleep yesterday after dinner and decided against working in the evening, thought it was best to get an early night and start afresh today.
Plan for today: I'm starting on chapter 1, and will read it through and edit it on paper, seems the best way to begin. Ooh it's quite exciting when you realise all your research is done now and you're at the next stage of rewriting! I'm sure it will be just as stressful in different ways, but the end's in sight, at last!

Hope you have a productive day if you're working too, will pop back later.

Hello everyone! :-)

Thanks so much for your message Tractorgirl :-) And also Ruby thanks a bunch for your message, you both so sweet!

well Ruby, i fell asleep after dinner too! didnt even get a chance to bring out the coke to keep me alert, but your right coke probably not the best thing for cramps! i was planning on using it for when i was sleepy, but when i had dinner at 12.30am at night, i had a cold drink from the fridge and then i got cramps (sorry Armendaf avert your eyes! female cramps, if you know what i mean!) so alas, i was unable to stay up and work on the discussion like i had planned, and just took some medicine and went to bed. woke up at 11am. feeling much better today, rested and relaxed.

and you all are so right, no need to work late night, because i gotta keep going for the long haul, better i work during the day and early evening and get a decent night sleep.

i love this forum too and hearing about everyones work progress, thanks Tractorigirl for saying you felt inspired by me, i feel inspired by the progress you've done! you are so very nearly there. and i too feel the panic whether i will get it done in time, but like you said, lets just do as much as we can, and worst case few days before submission just tie up the loose ends and hand it in , in whatever shape or form!

Armendaf, i am so impressed you worked till so late, well done you!

Good luck Ruby with chapter 1,
and enjoy the footie today Tractorgirl

well its going to be a long day for me ! i want to get the discussion section done today and then write up the results section.

my aims:
1. do one more result analysis
2. write up the discussion section
3. write up the results section.

i was thinking of doing some extra analysis, not really necessary , so i will leave it till the end, besides the freebie demo just ran out so it might be abit of a phaff to get it again. so might do it if i get time at the end. need to start finishing off chapters instead of doing more extra stuff.

okay will check back in and report my progress. going to work for maximum of 2 hours before i take a break.

I''ve finished reading through my chapter and am having a break now - a snack plus a bit of music to hopefully perk me up. Ricecakes and peanut butter with dash of marmite, in case you're vaguely interested, because I think they're mostly full of air so you can eat more without getting full up, and have more breaks. It's not easy typing and eating at the same time though, I just dropped my last ricecake and it got stuck in my hair... ugh!!! Musical choice of the moment is a bit of rockabilly, Vince Ray and the Boneshakers - Boneshaker Baby, though I prefer his Vern Vain and the Blue Veins tracks today.

Oh well, I suppose I'd better scrape the peanut butter off the floor and get back to work... the fascinating life of a PhD student!

How are you getting on...?

Hi girls,

Not much work done today; got up quite late actually. And now I'm hungry, so I think I'll have some lunch and then do some serious non-stop working for the rest of the day. Hopefully I'll make good progress and be able to go to bed early (-ish) tonight.

I'm so glad to hear that you are all getting on with the work and that things are coming around. Lara, I hope you are feeling better; no need to apologise for a cramp, I'm familiar with the symptomatology, and very sympathetic to the sufferer ;-)

So, lunch and then work... talk later,

Hi!

Hope everybody is having a good day. rubyw: Rice cakes and peanut butter yum!!! You are making me feel hungry and after writing this i am going to have something to eat!!! Lara and armendaf: hope everything is going well.
I have decided to have a break, grab some food and then get ready for the pub!!! Afterwards i will need to do some more work but i am going to try and go to bed around midnight today as tomorrow i am spending the morning in town (contact lens check up) and i don't want to be too knackered with red eyes for that!! It's horrid, they put this yellow iodide stuff in your eyes to check that everything is healthy, then you have to take out the contacts at the end as they are nicely stained yellow!!! Tmorrow afternoon i will be back although not sure of the time yet so will see you then! Will need to crack on with lots more work tomorrow to meet my aims for the weekend so fingers crossed!
Anyway, hope everyone is ok and good luck with all the aims for the rest of the day!

PS rubyw: Where i grew up we have a small local football team (my little 9 yr old nephew plays for them at the minute) and their nickname is the tractorboys! Because i always follow the results and sometimes watch my nephew play if i am in my home town at the odd weekend i have become their number one supporter!! Hence i am tractorgirl!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know what you mean about everyone's nickname, i am really curious about some of them too!!!

See you later!!

Armendaf definately good call about getting something to eat, as i find it hard to concentrate if i am hungy. what did you have for lunch. and how is your tooth ?
glad didnt scare you off with the female issues lol.

Tractogirl, that is so cute about the story behind your nickname, i always wondered about your nick , thought it had something to do with you being on a farm or something hehe. i hope you have fun at the pub! and hope your eye examination goes okay. i sometimes wear contact lenses, (cinema and stuff) and hate that yellow stain testing too, afterwards you have to walk around with yellow stained eyes, lol but eventually wears off. hate the puff in the air test, i find it so hard not to jump back! lol and i always feel i am going to fail my eye test, and get the wrong prescription haha.
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Ruby how is your work coming along? and lol at the rice cake getting in your hair. i like peanut butter, yum yum with strawberry jam on toast.
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i just had lunch. 2 granary toasts, with cheese, lettuce and cucumber and lots of salad cream (love salad cream). and cup of coffee. feeling sleepy now! i want to take a nap, but i thought i should do some work and then if i am still feeling sleepy take a quick nap. so i am going to write up the mad scribblings i wrote regarding my discussion section. and then maybe i will be able to spot the bits where i am repeating the same thing.
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Hello everyone,

Tractorgirl, what a great story behind your nickname, it's really sweet!! Hope you have a good time in the pub, and the opticians goes ok tomorrow. Yep, the yellow stuff is horrible, you look a bit gruesome afterwards while it disperses, don't you! If you get any work done tonight, it will be a bonus.

Lara, sounds all ok, a nice lunch, mad scribblings (!) and why not have a nap before you write up the rest? It will make more sense after a rest! Well that's what I tell myself anyway.

Armendaf, hope you're getting something done after your food break, I can't work when I'm hungry either.

I'm going to have a break now too, dinner, X Factor, then work again later, it will have percolated a bit in my head by then. Oh god what a weird life, but my plan is to work over the weekend then have a day off on Monday. It doesn't really matter what days I have off as long as there are some, a weekend only makes sense if you work Mon-Friday really, and that doesn't fit this PhD thing for me right now.

See you later!

Well, since I seem to be unable to make much progress this weekend, please allow me to be the first one to check in for the night shift. Lunch was good, had a decent fry and kept me going for the whole day. Although I hate to clean the kitchen after cooking a fry, anyway has to be done ;-)

For some reason I'm stuck trying to finish this first half of the chapter, and it's keeping me from moving on. I think I have to go to the original "plan" because I can't find the argument to link the bits and pieces I've written. I have this mind map I made for discussion with my supervisor, where all the theories in the literature review are shown and linked with one another and with the theoretical framework of my thesis. I have also been told that I could use it as my model and contribution. So I think I'll pull it out and try to work out why I'm stuck here. I'm not going to kill myself tonight, but I do need to get things in a state in which I can easily pick them up again and clarify the direction.

How are you girls getting on?