Ev how awful of your boyfriend's Dad. I saw that you have started going to the gym- I usually run a lot but can't anymore so joined one yesterday. So far so good!

Right, my first small job is to send a couple of emails. Then to get a chunk of writing done. No excuse as early morning is my peak working time!

your bf's dad = nobba! Although I desperately need to lose weight, I'm starting to feel ill in my clothes, they're that tight! I find it very hard to do it though when working from home.

I'm stuck today, I'm still trying to put together the presentation, but I've found results, that are very clear, but completely confound explanation. I was basically expecting a nice positive effect, but I've got a very strong negative effect and I can't think of ANY reason why! - its no mistake, I've tested it about 30 times now in different ways on different portions of my sample. Very bizarre.

So I'm now stuck - do I include this in my presnetation - my sup won't get back to me to help interpretation, and the slides are due in today. Do I leave it in and say "erm not sure what this was all about" in the conference, or do I leave it out and have a much simpler presentation, but risk questions about why didn't I test something so obvious. CONFUSED

i hope you work your presentation out Sneaks!

Right. I have spent 2 hours working on writing a paper and am making good progress. Even though I've only been at it for 2 hours my concentration is starting to go slightly. I'm useless in this weather! My second goal is to continue writing until 11am.

Hi everyone!

Right, I really need to get this assignment finished today, because I've got a majorly busy week ahead of me where I won't be able to do work!

So gaol 1- edit red bits that are all over my assignment!

Surprisingly goal 1 is done!

Goal 2- put in about combining the methods
Goal 3- double check lit review and discussion are still linked
Goal 4- checkr efs and quotes in discussion

Goal 2 (more or less) done. I am now going to continue focusing on writing for as much longer as I can stand and take it one tomato at a time.

yay! I'm an idiot! - I coded a variable 1 = low 7 = high, because it does make sense, but made the effect negative, but negative actually means getting better. so presentation stress sorted! Now I just have to actually finish the slides before 12!!!!

Heh, I've done that before, Sneaks - drove me crazy until I worked out what was wrong!

Gah, my supervisor just emailed me about my first year upgrade report, which I thought was due in August but he now tells me is due in July, and as he's on holiday for 2 weeks can I submit it by 14 July. Arrrgghhhh! That's more than a month sooner than I was expecting! And - yikes - only three weeks away!

Goal one for today - don't panic about first year report!

Goal two - get ready for this afternoon's supervision meeting - feedback on the two papers I just submitted plus discussion of the upgrade report. Yikes!

Goals 2, 3 and 4 are done woo!

Goal 5- print refs and appendices (which will take my poor little printer all afternoon)

Goal 6- add in about TN

Goal 7- cut down

finished the presentation - that only took me about 3 weeks!

As my hubs is having his only week leave until xmas, I think will take the rest of the day off after practising the presentation a few times. I'm presenting it next week, so have quite a lot of time, don't want to OVER practice!

Goal 5 is done, but goals 6 and 7 I'm going to leave until I can look back at the assignment with fresh eyes, as I've been working on it for the last few days!

So next goal for today is- start overall analysis

Rubbish, rubbish rubbish day. Did absolutely no work and feel awful about it as I have so much to do. Also, was not very kind to myself :-s

Now I have to go put on a brave face and muster up some energy to play my weekly sport - all I want to do is go crawl in a hole.

Sorry for the negative post - well done to everyone who made some progress today!!

Fresh from my supervision meeting. Kindly, they've given me two weeks to write a first draft of my 10,000 word upgrade report. Argh! Luckily a lot of it will be summarising stuff I've already written, but all the same - two weeks! 10,000 words!

Final goal for today - write up notes of my supervision meeting. Any more work can wait until tomorrow!

wow, this is a great thread. I wish I saw it earlier. can I join?
I am about to finish my PhD, yet still a lot to be done. I always feel I haven't done a good research during PhD years. :-( The PhD has been used by me for procrastination.

benyaya - welcome!