Hi Ruby!! lol at your message, you always make me laugh! true true, there are limits indeed hahahaha.

and well done on the exhibition, that is great news, well done you! :-)
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Armendaf! great that you're going to be working from home tommorow, hurrah ! i will be happy for the company.
and thanks for the advice, i did take a good long break, had dinner and watched my favourite show at the moment "lost in austen" i wish i could be lost in a jane austen novel, prefarably with Mr Darcy but played by Colin Firth teeehheehehe.
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feeling sleepy now though, but i really want to finish off chapter 4, as Ruby said, its nearly done so i can tick it off.
so i'm clocked in for the night shift. i was meant to actually finish off chapter 5 today aswell. but thats not gonna happen, so will leave that for tommorow.
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hope you both have a good night sleep and see you tommorow :p

okay i am calling it a night .. just finished chapter 4. hurrah! :-)
now i have 4 chapters left.
tommorow i am working on chapter 5. which is going to take the whole day as the results are all over the place and written on paper -i've made the figures, but finding the right files will no doubt take time! hoping to get chapter 5 done by the evening.
because i was meant to work on chapter 5 today, i might have to work on the methods chapter tommorow aswell. but doubt i will get time. so i will just focus on chapter 5 tommorow and get it finished and finalised. i am behind schedule, but then aren't i always lol
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okay see you tommorow folks. bye for now.

Hi girls,

I'm back to working on the thesis, but just got some not very good news about my extension. Based on the progress he's seen, my supervisor doesn't believe I can make it, even with the extension. Obviously I'm shocked, and the only thing I can do now is to wrap everything up the best I can to bring to him to show for my progress... and beg him to reconsider. So, I'll be working on that all day hoping that I can meet him tomorrow. :-(

I hope you girls are doing better than I am.

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

Hello!

Lara, hope you're up and about now, with your upside down working hours, and that chapter 5's whizzing along nicely today!

Sheena, good luck with your results section today.

Armendaf, all you can do is prepare as much as you can today, to give a realistic idea of what work's remaining and see what he says. Hope your meeting goes ok tomorrow, and you can decide on a Plan B between you both, if imminent submission isn't an option. Good luck with it today anyway, let us know how you get on.

I'm having a coffee break at work now, so just popped over to see how you're getting on. I've been thwarted by annoying things all day but there you go. That is life. The positive side of work being a bit frustrating sometimes is that it increases my determination to get on with my Phd and finish it ASAP!!! Oooh I could never be a fulltime student, it would drive me mad - half job, half PhD suits me ok for a bit of variety.

Hope you all have a productive rest of day.

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Hi Ruby :-) nice to hear from you. this thread was quiet today! sounds like a really nice working environment, thats so important. so what does your job entail?

see you tommorow :) hope you have a good night. and lol at scary robot woman hahaha
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today i have been very slow and crap! still havent finished the results section of chapter 5. i'm being really rubbish!! i've run out of steam. but i've got plenty of glue so i'm not moving until i get it done grrrrr and then take a break and get the discussion section done and then introduction. i HAVE to get chapter 5 done today!!! (battle face):-s

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Hey Armendaf, hope you managed to wrap everything up and good luck with your meeting tommorow! let us know how it goes. i have faith and confidence in you, that you can get it done!!
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anyone else out there working tonight?

Hi girls,

Thanks Lara, Rubyw and Sheena for your words of support. This morning when I was shocked and scared I sort of made some progress, I even finished another section in chapter 3, so I'm getting closer now. Unfortunately that wore off after lunch and now I'm only somehow depressed. Anyway, I'll just bring everything I've got to show him what I've been up to and discuss my options, if any.

I hope everything goes well in the night shift. I'll post some update when I know more.

Hi Armendaf, that sounds great that you finished another section, way hey! you are getting there!! great stuff. I dont blame you for feeling depressed, that is totally understandable. Yep, just show him everything you have done, and he will realise how seriously hard you have been working. and i am sure together you can sort it out. it's not over till it's over! so good luck! and hope you get a good night sleep. good luck for tommorow!!
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i'm still working on the results section at snail pace, but getting there word by word. i have "sleepy hollow" on in the background, great film! so it's keeping me awake and motivated to stay glued to my chair. i should get it done within the next 30minutes hopefully! then will take a break for food and relax abit.

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Hello, morning everyone.

Lara, hope you got chapter 5 out of the way last night, ooh Sleepy Hollow, great film - what good taste you have! I love Tim Burton's melancholy little illustrations of people too, oyster boy, stain boy etc. My job(s)? I work in research in an art college, where I also teach and am doing my PhD. Hopefully it will be more straightforward next year after completion.

Armendaf, hope you got enough done last night, I'm sure you'll find a way forward after discussing the situation with your supervisor.

Aims for today: edit chapter 4. It's an interesting one - not that the rest are really boring of course! Or are they....? Time will tell!!! It's quite long, but shouldn't be too bad to do, as it's quite a recent one. Plus I can stride up the road to the library if I need more references and a break.

See you later.

Hello, invisible people with a life elsewhere,

I've come back to talk to myself and tell myself publicly what progress I've made today. Will it embarrass me into doing more before the day is finished? Who knows.

So what have I done in this long, long day? Weeeellll, I've been a bit on the slow side really, I've edited 8 pages out of 35, so that's probably about one fifth of this fascinating chapter, if my crappy maths is right. Ok, I suppose.

And I watched Diagnosis Murder for a lunchbreak, very disappointing actually, as the BBC is repeating all the really old episodes and they're not as good. IMO of course. The stories are a bit slow, not enough complex sleuthing going on and I think Dick's moustache is a bit too big, plus Amanda Bentley works with living people instead of corpses, and little Dr Jesse Travis is replaced by a man who used to be Pamela Anderson's boyfriend in real life, before she got famous as a Baywatch Babe. He's a bit dull to watch though. I wonder what the attraction was for old Pammy....?

And I've had a forum fish named after me :-) I hope they look after it, because I don't want to end up being flushed down the toilet if it dies. Well, I wouldn't fit down a toilet but the fish would, that's what people do with them sometimes.

Well, I'll begin the evening shift anyway. I should finish this chapter by the end of tomorrow as I'll be off doing something on Sunday, so tonight I should get another 8 pages done.

So how's it going, Lara? Armendaf?

I'll be back later for another scintillating monologue.