I *have* to get my stats done and written up today. I have such a hectic week!

Goal 1: Run regressions
Goal 2: Write them up
Goal 3: correlations (yes I know they're supposed to go beforehand, but I want to work out which variables I'm using first :$ )

OMG, my sup wants me to stay over at her house one day this week i.e stay the night! As if next week wasn't stressful enough!

Urgh, OMG indeed! Why on earth is she asking you to do that Sneaks?

well for 3 years now I have managed to get out of going to stay in a summer house with her and her family (for a week or so every summer). I can't get out of staying over one night in her normal house though. I don't think I'll actually mind once I'm there - it will be a good chance to talk about the thesis for more than our 30 min meetings and I will be able to talk to her about jobs etc. I just haven't been in that situation i.e. having to be very polite and staying in someones house for years!

ooh I'm supposed to be an auntie today, my Sister in law is due. I'm really hoping she has it before we go to london tomorrow night, so at least we can drop a card in to her mums. Very excited!

Seriously, why do supervisors have to be so epically shit at times?! 2/3 weeks from submission I email to check it's ok to move something (one bit of a topic) from one section to another to avoid repeating the info, and get a really crappy back about how it's very late in the day to be chopping and changing my thesis and I need to sort the structure myself and should he even bother reading the last section I've sent, then wrapped up nicely with a dig about moving away to write up.
Just really really close to saying feck this and leaving, I'm mentally not right, and it's all cos of the crap support throughout this past year. I 'know' it's not the be all and end all, and there is life outside the phd, but I can't get my head to accept that properly, honestly wish I'd never started the bloody thing.

Anyway, aside from the rant and current hating of my life and everything to do with this ball and chain around my life, I've done nearly all of today's goals, just finishing off the last thing now.

ok done! Good night folks!!

I am working very hard these days. But I think about my PhD all the time, cannot sleep until late hours, it is now 5 am, I am trying to sleep since 3 hours at last I set and open my laptop.

Ah, *hugs* Emaa, it's 4.30am here and I'm only just considering giving up myself. Hope you can switch off and get some sleep soon, I find self hypnosis or meditation CDs very good for letting go of the day's PhD struggle, happy to recommend some if that's your thing.

bleugh I have an interview this afternoon - and am feeling very anxious about it and now at the stage that I just want it to be over, no matter how it goes! Bring on 4.30pm!

My sister in law STILL hasn't had the baby :-(

no phd work for today - will sit around practicing interview responses like a crazy person and walk the dog and then worry about what to wear and how to get there!

Good luck for the interview Sneaks, have faith!! Just be calm and confident and make them think wonder how they ever survived without you on the staff!

Today, my one main goal is to finish this chapter...I have to finished the discussion and write the intro but I *really really* want to get it done today as that's the main thesis totally written, only general discussion chapter to go...whoo!

ok I have NO idea how that interview went. I seemed to get on well with the project lead, but there were 2 other women in ther interview who just sat there pouting. So have no idea. had a tricky question which I bluffed until they asked me another :$ Will wait and see. I can definitely see why people go self-employed - no more interviews!

Well done Sneaks, knowing how negatively I usually interpret these things, it sounds like you did very well! Oh, and at my last interview I had one nice + two utterly stoney interviewers, made me feel like I'd fluffed everything but it turned out fine :-) Hope you can make time for a bit of well-earned R&R tonight with hubby and dog.

As for me.... I sleep, I procrastinate, I set world records for inefficiency. And to top it off back pain has been waking me early, so I get up feeling tired, v.sore and v.v.pathetic. Still, booked in with osteo tmw so hopefully he can ease the grimness and maybe even raise my spirits.

Goal 1: Try not to feel so sorry for myself, this mawkish moping will not do.

Goal 2: Do a tomato, working on the results section I last added to.

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Oh my jeepery jeepers jimminy cricket!!

I have just finished the first draft of my last experimental chapter! I just have to print it tomorrow (will be tomorrow evening as boyf has to print it at work so I won't get it til he arrives home..), proof read, make whatever chages I need and send it off to be properly corrected and annihilated by my sups!

Whoop whoop!! That means I have a rather rudimentary version of my full thesis completed!! Apart from final discussion chapter which I've got loads of ideas for and notes written down, so hoping it won' be too bad!

Yay!

Oh and Sneaks, sounds like the interview went well, I think there is always at least one mean panel member, apparently something to so with seeing how you cope under pressure and with difficult people... but stay positive, you will find a job at the end!!

morning folks! I remembered some stuff I have to include in the chapter last night, so going to do that this morning, and I think I might make a start on my general discussion chapter this afternoon, I'm veering between that and starting the last corrections for my lit review...will see how I feel I think!

Hope everyone has a good day!