Right - back to work for me, I feel like I've been away from my desk far too long with computer troubles, horrible opressive humid weather and general laziness.

I'm sooo busy this week, I have weds and fri completely wiped out cos I'm helping to run some all-day training (sup is not amused), thus I am helping students and doing my lab demonstrator job, and this pattern continues next week, with the training and student help etc (again, sup not amused). Sup wants to see some work by late this week early next so I really only have today and tomorrow AM to do it! ARRRGH!

Goal 1: plan out intro

I feel like I've been away from work for too long too. Time to get serious. I have a deadline of next Thursday for two pieces of writing, and I'm at a seminar tomorrow and Wednesday and meeting Masters students whose dissertations I'm supervising on Thursday, so that knocks out a lot of time. And I'm wearing my last clean clothes so have to find time for the trek to the launderette some time today!

Goal one: bit of a mind-mapping session on both of the papers I have to write.

heading into the department today to discuss future employment with the h of dept. So I won't be leaving the office until late because I need to sit their until vast sections of my thesis introduction are done.

Morning all.

First goal this morning is to make the final changes to the stuff I have to send my supervisors today, and to email it off. This shouldn't take more than an hour or two.

morning! Well I have to get this chapter (the one I don't know anything about) up to first draft by next tuesday, so that's what I will be working on this week. I'm starting get some 'feel' for the subject area now, although frustrated by not being able to get hold of papers that I KNOW my library used to have before the library decided to skip all the books & papers. Their justification is that we can use the e-journals but they only go back so far :(

Gah - stuck on opening lines, I always have this! And it can take me hours to think of something appropriate. I just can't seem to move on past it either

Morning all!

Well, I finally managed to get another mini-section of my literatrue complete - just one more to go then I think that's the first chapter drafted...need to send it off to sups by Thursday so got to crack on...

Goal 1: Draft outline of final mini-section and organise journals accordingly!

:-)

Goal 1 complete! I have been really focusing on the one thing (well, that and a load of marking) over the last couple of weeks so it is good to have it out of the way at last.

My next goal is to input a load of references and notes into Zotero.

well I've written 300 words - which isn't great. Feeling really sleepy now. going to have lunch and try and make a go of getting on with writing at elast another 700 words today.

Weekend's goal completed: new pony happily settled into field. :-)

Today's first (and possibly only) goal: keeping sane. (As much as I love my parents, they are driving me bonkers.)

Might even get some PhD work done later on...

had lunch and now back to work. I think if I work till 6pm and get 6 papers summarised, that'd be good going for me (I'm a very slow reader and writer).

Goal 2 done.

Next up, I have 2 papers to read.

Goal one (mindmapping) done, and am now part way through goal 2 - some reading. It's hard going though - more theoretical than really suits me. Ah well.

I've utterly failed at my afternoon task, got to the stage of just not being able to face writing any more!

off to the garden centre to cheer myself up... (why didn't I do a PhD in gardening??)

ooh come and do my garden! We mowed it for the first time in 14 months a few weeks ago - and that was only because my mum told me that the reason we had a spider infestation (seemingly) in the garden was because of the tall grass. I'd left a bit of cardboard out on the grass, I'm not joking it had about 32 little spiders on it at one point - bleugh! They were about 2cm across, so not that small - I still don't like going out there much! but it is better.

We also have a nice arrangement of old polystyrene, two old soggy wet carpets and a few recycling bags in our back garden - I might hire a burnt out car to finish off the look.

I've written 700 words. I would really like to get this section done today - that would be fantastic! So must go on.