Okies, my plan for this week is the following:

1) Get the paper finished.
2) Re-write 2 thesis chapters.
3) Read for other chapters.
4) Begin development of idographic scale.
5) Establish cognitive interviewing protocol - in fact learn about cognitive interviewing.
6) What the hell is my thesis going to look like? Better get drawing some pictures.
7) Plan the next paper.
8) Procrastinate on here to get a bit of light relief.
9) Maybe look forward to Chrimbo - just a bit.

I can empathise with you there. Rude customers or PhD and chance of a better paid career? Mmm, PhD!

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not to make you go running off a cliff wally, but another phd student told me yesterday that her supervisor had told her that if she was doing a phd in order to get a better paid job it was the wrong way to go....:-( but then again, who knows?! I was at a presentation today about working on documentaries for the BBC and phd's are helpful there, and it looked like an amazing job!!



mission for the week...meet with supervisor, tail between my legs and accept the inevitable abuse (he cursed at me last week, nice..), get reading and report done for new experiments next year, start cell counts properly, and hopefully get this paper submitted...think that's me!

Now have an image of Malcolm Tucker from the 'The thick of it' as your sup.

I've decided as I am technically signed off work by doctor am going to tell sup that i'm going to get on with some analysis and try and get her the papers after xmas. When I say I'm going to tell her, I'm not, I'm just going to ignore the fact that I haven't communicated to her in weeks and hope she gives up and lets me get on with it.

Wal - your productiveness scares the hell out of me! Maybe you should come over to mine and poke me with a cattle prod when I start to procrastinate

lol just checked out a clip of malcom tucker on you tube there! my sup's maybe not that bad, but then again, ive never seen him really mad! he fairly gets my cursing juices going sometimes though!! :D thanks for that sneaks, that show looks really, good, il have a look for the episodes online, yet more ways to procrastinate! :D

I love The thick of it - and I have just bought my parents 'in the loop' - the film that came out this summer - on the pretence of an xmas present, which I will then 'borrow' once I have forced them to watch it quickly haha. I think I wouldn't mind Malcolm Tucker as my supervisor - at least I would know what he actually thought!

Today not going so well. After a complete stress out yesterday I have decided to make a huge chart of the interviews i need to tick off - like my very own advent calander (of hate and dispair). i want to do all the analysis, all the transcriptions etc. by xmas (dec 24th xmas, NOT end of term xmas) so I then have early jan to try and write up the findings.

Onwards! - I might post a similar chart here so you can all shame me if I haven't done it!

Oh sneaks, what a painfully beautiful summary of christmas as a grad student! Try not to despair, *insert disney vocals* I believe in you!

I need something similar myself, having exhausted myself to the point of necessitating valium over that interview I've now lost interest in actually working. Today is my supervisory meeting and I haven't even written a presentation.....ah-yis.

I'm too lazy to even set goals. This is bad :s

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oooh!! a work advent calendar! i kind of like that idea!! you can open a window each morning and along with ur little piece of chocolate (to numb the impending pain..) you can find out just what exactly you have to do that day! Sounds like a sterling idea sneaks!

I'm already getting behind today myself, shouty-type supervisor hasn't even appeared today when he told me to come up this morning and i said yessir, i'll be there first thing...maybe it's silent revenge for all my stupidness yesterday...so now I'm floundering around his department waiting for him to show up and getting behind in the report I wanted to do today...joy oh joy!

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Advent calander is set up - kind of seems like at the end of it (supposed xmas day) the only santa I'm going to be seeing is the homicidal robot one from futurama.



I would just like to encourage you all to do your admin properly and file things properly. I am currently transcribing the interview of a person I have called 'Geordie Lady' as I have lost any details relating to who she is.

omg I hate word its so evil - why o why has it decided to crash and mess my entire computer up! :-s

aw rubbish - she's from liverpool NOT newcastle, going to have to rename her 'scouse lady' - wish I had kept my records better!

Your point about filing is very valid sneaks, but more importantly, you're coming up with some of the best quotes I've heard in months! I don't have a "geordie lady" in my files, but I do have lots of data that made perfect sense two years ago and is now thinly-veiled garbage for all I can get out of it.

Just had my inter-uni supervisory team meeting which has sufficiently terrorised me that i'm back at my laptop this evening. My own gantt chart has also frightened the crap out of me (that and the bill I just got for my car's MOT needs *sob*). Tonight I'm actually going to start some introduction writing - yup, stupid arse here never did write her lit review, gulp.

What year are you in now Teek? I never did my lit review either. I have a load of disjointed essays that have no flow and no argument linking them. Most of them are rubbish. I haven't even upgraded either - in my 3rd year! oh well. I think I'm going to try and type up a bit more of 'scouse lady' tonight. Good luck with the writing Teek!

I'm in third year Sneaks, supposed to submit by June next year and it suddenly seems precious few months until deadline-day :s
I have a few disjointed papers I've written, but nothing on the general topic in any depth. Curse my shoddy attitude to writing in prior years! My current aim in life is to find a way to tackle the phd while being less stressed...... otherwise I may also be writing up divorce papers as hubby-dearest finds it a tad trying.

Good luck with typing up scouser lady (I feel this is the basis of a phdcomics installment btw, I think you should email Jorge and become a gradschool star!).

Oh, you are probably in a much better situation than me. my first year went quite well, but I think my second year was totally wasted, I haven't even written up my first study yet (scouse lady's one) and have 3 more studies to write up as well as the lit review and everything else like methods and discussion, all by next Oct! Luckily my other half also did a PhD so he knows the pain, but even he is saying I am stressed at the mo.

It doesn't help that i have given up on scouse lady for tonight and have eaten a whole bag of 'fizzy fangs' instead while staring absent mindedly at tv screen while plays ps3.