Right, I'm going to join this thread today - you did say it was cool to do so Sneaks! Spent the morning buying some plasters and tea tree oil from Boots but now I'm ready to do work. Objective: Finish the first draft of the paper and send it through my optical fibre broad band cable to my supervisor's e-mail address. Ready...steady...go!

Wait...

Just going to make a cup of tea

welcome Wal, of course you can join. I'm just making some pasta for lunch but will be super productive (or sleepy) once its eaten.

finished my reports! on to transcribing!

I've just realised this chapter is going to be HUGE!!! I've been aiming for 10,000 words per chapter... except my methodology which was 15,000. I've been writing this chapter (1st of 4 discussion chapters), and just noticed I'm over the 5000 word mark and only about a third of the way through. I may well be writing this chapter forever. Argh!!!

On the plus side...I'm actially writing. This is good.

Hope everyone elses productivity is good today as well. Maybe I needed that liein this morning.

Tables for the results of the paper done. Now needs cutting down, abstract needs doing and a couple of extra details need adding.

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No I like to learn French, but really it is very hard. However, I need to do that because it is important now to speck more than two language especially that I am studying international law

ooh, I did A level french but it has all disappeared out of my brain as the PhD has gone in.

Having a rubbish afternoon :-( doing work, just feeling crap about it all.

I spend all the day in cleaning the house, I hate that. I want to sleep one hour then study

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B******s. My paper is finished but at 9,000 words exceeds that maximum word count of the journal I wish to submit to by...5,500 words. I just called them up as they haven't put this on the submission instructions. Crap!

really not happening for me today. Very sleepy!

Pffff!! today's plan was to sort out crappy admin stuff for the uni, get all my new results put into excel and begin to do stuff with it....Got admin stuff done but spent quite a while hunting through my computer for old data to add the new data to, after freaking out that I think I may have lost some....Regained composure, began inputting new data, supervisor emailed about a paper i sent him (8th draft, it's not even funny anymore...) and realised in my sleepyness last night while I was doing it I made loads of silly mistakes, which he tends to get extremely p***ed off about...boooo....so now I'm replying to his emails, trying to fix the mistakes, and making more in the process....and i was doing so well!

I'm actually now in a complete panic over my work. I promised sup I would have a paper written by xmas, but the term finishes next week and I have NOTHING (well a methods bit), and still haven't done analysis. I also have to do another analysis AND get on with some stats and write up all those = 3 papers in total ASAP. I have no real idea what to do first and now its just scaring me. I also have lectures to plan for the new term and loads of non-PhD project people breathnig down my neck. aaaargh!

Ok calm sneaks! first things first, 'christmas' is a broad term, as far as im concerned u have until christmas eve with a christmas deadline, do you think the extra few days will help at all? Do the paper you told ur sup you'd have in first, or at least get a basic first draft to him by then, and you have after christmas to do your lecture plans for the new term, it doesnt usually start until near the end of jan anyway, with exams etc, at least that's how it is in my uni...
But I totally feel your pain! I was hoping to have cell counts for all my samples done by christmas and I'll be lucky if i get even half way through them, not to mention work on another set of exeriments I have to set up asap after christmas....good god....

problem is sup goes on holiday and wanted to read it while she was away. If I sent it on xmas eve, it just wouldn't be read until the new term. Problem is with the lectures are that there is a conference in early jan - that I'm organising d'oh. Luckily they are the same as last year, so have to revise them a little but should be reasonably ok.

I'm thinking of just going underground, ignoring sup and then providing three lovely papers after xmas to appease. (although I know I will end up not doing this either!)

oh i totally know that feeling!! SOmetimes I think I'd like to run away and do a non-thinking, minor responsibility type of job forever...like in a coffee shop or something...but then i remember I've done every sort of public service/customer service/food service/cleaning/office type job imaginable since i was 13 and I know I wouldn't be happy unless I was causing myself academic agony...ah hooo!!!