hey jojo, that's great !

i managed almost 3,000 words. i just realised its all about confidence. it's not that i don't know. am just not confident enough and that triggers my writer's block. now i just have to support my argunment with literature after the Apprentice .

thanks Shani.

wow 3000 words!! thats brilliant!! very impressive!

you're so right, it is really alot to do with confidence. :)

you've just inspired me :)

Wow, 3000 words is brilliant, well done!
BTW, over how many hours did you write all that?

3000 is excellent for a days work! very impressive Jojo!! you deserve a star! *hands Jojo a gold star*

thanks everyone. i've decided to have a more inspiring start to my day. i'll be going to the gym or to the pool first thing in the morning before i start working on my thesis. that should lift up my spirit and i won't sleep til noon because i don't want to face my thesis and then wake up and be so low that i end up doing nothing that day.

am hoping i can get all that literature done today - at least most of it because i have done the reading.

about three and a half hours botanybod. i just wrote it like a novel. i didn't waste time thinking about how good a sentence sounded or looking up literature. i just got it out of my head and let my thoughts flow - like i was explaining it to someone. today i'll look through it and make it sound more academic.

jojo that's fantastic! that you wrote like that!! thats exactly what is recommended. brilliant stuff, 3000 words in 3 and half hours. well done you!

sounds like a good idea about the swimming thing. i too work late at night and then wake up late.. but that's me, i'm a night owl. there was this study that showed that it's genetics about whether you're in an early riser or a night owl.

thanks for the consolation Lara. i wonder how correct that study was because everyone in my family generally gets up by 5am. my granddad was always up by 3am. :-$ everyone from my mum's side is generally up by 7am. me..... am a gone case. the irony is that am the greatest achiever academically. others tend to do better in more practical things where am just crap.

i seem to be doing well today. over 1,500 words of lit so far. worked for 3 hours 11am to 2pm.

wow well done you! you are doing so well. so proud of you

i am not being so productive today or yesterday. will pull my socks up in abit though. and catch up with ya

maybe you got the recessive or dominant gene or whatever it is, that differs you from the rest of your family

my brother is an early riser, but i am a night owl.

or maybe it's habit. i just read about this guy who conditioned himself to change from a night owl to an early bird riser. i might try it too

http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2008/01/the-early-bird-challenge-5-months-later.html

i managed to do a lot more words, but the polishing is the hardest bit. we'll see how it goes. fingers crossed. i have to hand in next week. am off for the day. pretty tired.

Well done . Thats quite a lot of words in a short time.
I've had a reasonably good day. I sorted out the figures that messed up yesterday, I did some analysis on data chapter 3, and I handed in my examination entry form to my supervisor. I'm a bit worried about the exam form, as my uni have changed the regulations on internal examiners without telling anyone! My supervisor needs to sort this out. Basically, the guy who I had assumed all along would be my internal now cannot be as he assessed my transfer report! It used to be the case that whoever assesses your transfer report was ALWAYS your internal examiner. I was just checking whether I should take the form for him to sign or whether the graduate school would sort it, and only then did they tell me! Everyone else is in the same boat, so what are they going to do about all the others who have already sorted out viva dates etc? Typical!

am feeling overwhelmed by the writing up. i feel that am incapable of coming up with a decent thesis and all i've done is crap. i feel like giving up. maybe this thing is beyond my ability. i've been really low all day. am on the verge of bursting into tears right now, but i have to keep it together to meet Wednesday's deadline. i feel like all i've done over the last couple of weeks is crap and can't bear another supervisor meeting where my work will be trashed.