Morning everyone.

Today my goals are to address the comments on my case for support and to do any admin that comes up.

I am hoping to finish early today after working until 9 last night. There is still a chunk of work which will need doing before Tuesday but I'm waiting for feedback from my supervisor and can't do it until then.

Last night I finished editing ch 6, clarifying ch 6 'finding' and started editing ch 7. Have now only got to reduce thesis by 300 words to be within the limit! Next goal will be to finish editing ch 7.

Sounds like you two are both making great progress! And will probably need a good lie-down at the weekend, too....

Today, I need to catch up on the work I failed to do yesterday. So many of my days begin like this! I woke up in the night stressing about how much I need to do and how little I'm achieving, and then had bad dreams - I think this is at least partly because of my cold, but it's a warning sign that I'm getting stressed, so I need to take some breaths and plan my work properly.

So, goals for today:

1.) Look at colleague's online web survey to give her feedback and also get idea of software
2.) Prepare for supervision session
3.) Write up notes from supervision session
4.) Draw up a decent workplan for the next few weeks
5.) Make some progress on the journal article I'm supposed to be writing

If I achieve all of that I'll feel a lot happier about things.

Good luck Star-Shaped, might you be finished all your post-doc applications today?

Dunni, you really sound like you're really on the homeward strait...nearly there(up)...300 words hopefully won't be too hard to chop.

Batfink, you sound like you're making really good progress despite the cold. However, none of us seem as productive as LeoDown who was obviously beavering away all night!!

Today's goal is photocopy my observation notes while the place is quiet. I seem to be the only one in my building which is weird. Also started the day by falling down the stairs which shook me up quite a bit so think some choc called for.

I will be *almost* finished today. I am waiting for comments from my supervisor on one bit though which I'm not expecting until over the weekend so I will have some left to do on Monday. One of the applications is due in today and I am just waiting for something from the lady projecting the costs. I'll be so much happier once I've heard from her!

I have now addressed my supervisors comments. My next goal is to cut the length by about 2/3 of a page.

I have cut down the length. I have heard back from the lady sorting out the last bits of my application and I have to wait for her to send something to me so I can make the changes to it. I have been refreshing my inbox all morning and it is a bit like mental torture. I only have a few other bits to do today so I am going to get way from the computer and go to the gym for a while!

Ady - hope you're not feeling too bruised after falling down the stairs! Ouch!

Star-shaped - sounds like you are getting there, even if it must feel like it's dragging out the torture now.

Just had intense supervision session, going through my draft questionnaire and being told that the focus is all wrong and it has three weak sections and needs rethinking. Gah. I kind of knew that but was hoping it wasn't as bad as I feared. Time to get thinking again. Except I'm too full of cold to think about anything, and that makes the criticisms seem even worse (they weren't even really very bad criticisms, my supervisors are lovely, but everything feels rotten today).

Oh well. I'm going to stick to my original goals for today and leave thinking about rewriting the questionnaire for a couple of days - maybe I'll feel better by then. Anyway, goals 1 and 2 are done.

Right, that's me done for today. All goals achieved - if 'make some progress' on my journal article includes just emailing my collaborator and having a very brief chat about it! That'll do me, anyway. I'm calling it the weekend. Though I'm only taking tomorrow off, going to work on Sunday, so maybe I should allow myself this.

Happy weekend everyone!

I'm going to join in on this thread and give myself one goal for today. It's a hard thing to choose...I've got so many things to do.

My goal for today is to finish re-reading this article I have been writing and make comments on all the parts that need improvement or further development. If I actually do anything to it, that would be great. But right now I'll settle for making a plan on what needs to be done.

p.s. I'm new to this forum, and I have to say that it's great what goes on here. It seems like a fairly active community of people trying to bring one another up--which is exactly what I need right now. Thanks for being here.

Hello Ballman, welcome and I hope you find this thread useful!

This morning I've rushed around sorting out various bits of paperwork that I've been ignoring for too long. Now that's done, I can finally start with some work! Only two goals today, but they're both quite big:

1.) Complete draft paper version of questionnaire to discuss with software person (started yesterday)
2.) Complete detailed plan for journal paper (started on Friday)

I also have to go to the bank and do some food shopping, so looks like a long lunch break and probably working a little late tonight.

Morning Batfink and welcome Ballman!

Right, I am on a bit of a mission. I've got a book (it's only 110 pages long) due back to the library (inter-library loan so no extensions allowed) on 27th. And I've not started it yet, and it's incredibly pertinent for me so my goals for today, Wednesday and Thursday are to make sure I've read it and made enough notes on it that I won't need to inter-library loan it again!

Goal 1: get coffee - done
Goal 2: check all social networking sites to clear my mind - done
Goal 3: read the thing!

Following the weekend panic of lit review updating I have one prominent paper to read and some others to add into the refs. So my goals while refereeing the three babies are
Goal 1 = Coffee and homemade shortbread (one advantage of small children is baking :-x)
Goal 2 = Read prominent paper and appropriately cite in discussion
Goal 3 = Add new refs into bibliography
Goal 4 = Start to read other papers on desk!

Hey everyone.

I've had a slow start to the day. I am feeling a bit rubbish and panicky. The deadine for my second application is tomorrow and I have done pretty much all I can do, but am still waiting for my supervisor to email me comments on half of the application. I just want her to send them so I can get it over and done with but I'll be doing them first thing tomorrow at this rate (and I'm ignoring the slight possibility that she might not actually send them to be by then).
Anyway I have done my bibliography and popped into the library. I'm now going to spend a bit of time making sure everything else for the application is ready. I'm then going to finish early and go to the gym on my way home. I'm having a couple of days taking it easy after the last couple of weeks!

I'm on page 53 of 110, so I'm doing quite well on my principal goal. Finish by 5pm?

Listening to Palestrina on Spotify is helping, as the geese and ducks on campus are going crazy today for some unapparent reason!

My goal for today is to get a handle on how I am going to simultaneously edit what I have done and still move forward. Supv told me this morning that he thinks I am good for a Sept submission so am pleased with that. Secretly I am hoping for earlier but September would be good.

á la Dunni, I too have a baking goal having rather rashly promised to make a chocolate cake this afternoon!