Thanks to both of you, I'm glad I'm not the only one that has experienced this!

After my two months of NO exercise, I'm now off to Frankie and Benny's tonight :$

Hi guys, so I've been doing a few interviews recently as part of my MA, and at the moment I'm transcribing one.

What's bugging me though, and what has frustrated me in the past when transcribing, is the fact that I walk past obvious opportunities for the participant to discuss something in more detail. Instead of, for example, asking them to go into more detail and why they say/think something, I just move onto the next question and it's driving me mad!

Does anyone else ever get this? For the more experienced interviewers, will I get better at probing a bit deeper for responses? I hope so!

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Hi Ian,

Just to reiterate what everyone else has said, it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get funding solely for an MA. I'm doing a funded MA in the social sciences at the moment, but I'm doing an ESRC 1 + 3, meaning I have to start my PhD in September/October. Lucky for me I want to do a PhD though!

Maybe consider other options, but keep looking!

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I keep hearing about this twilight malarky and I'm not sure whether I should fall into its traps and see what all the fuss is about! I actually bought the first dvd for Christmas but haven't got round to watching it...anyone know how the books compare to the films?

I do need a new book to get my teeth in to- there's only so many times that you can read the Harry Potter series!

My guilty pleasure is watching The Hills. If you haven't heard of it, it's a (supposedly) real-life programme usually on MTV/Channel 4 which is about a group of young people who live in LA, have loads of money, and do absolutely nothing. It's the crappiest programme ever, but it is so unbelievably addictive. I have all of the series on dvd, and I never get bored of watching them over and over. My boyfriend also recently realised that the latest series is on TV, he made the mistake of telling me, and now I watch it even more! I always google it to find out the latest gossip, I feel like I actually know the people in it.

My second guilty pleasure is anything to do with Harry Potter...although I'm not embarrassed about this, he is incredibly cool. I think I've watched each of the films at least fifty times, I watch one every week and I am yet again in the process of reading all of the books (on number four at the moment!) But it does get worse- I have made my boyfriend promise that when we get married we can go on our honeymoon to Florida so I can visit the Harry Potter themepark :$ at 21 I'm a little worried that this is rather odd.

So there you go, the reason why I never get any work done is my fascination with The Hills and Harry Potter!

I swear by weightwatchers...means you can still eat what you want but you just have to limit it to the amount of points you're allowed...always works for me! When I was dieting I also exercised 3 times a week, and I lost 2 stone!

You don't even need to got to weightwatchers meetings, I never, just buy all the books and stuff on ebay!

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Wal, my mum insists on buying me those bic bumper packs everytime she sees me...I have a major surplus of them, although they all either have chewed lids or no lids at all due to said lids being already chewed to pieces...a very bad habit of mine.

I got some paper clips for christmas...although I was quite disappointed as I was looking forward to getting those stripy coloured paper clips, but I only got plain ones :( sigh.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one! Having a really bad day today- I've managed to do all of my MA assignments that were for modules in term one, and now I've just started a few more modules but we've not got info about those assignments yet...so really what I should be doing is getting on with my dissertation. From 9am-1pm I sat and looked at my computer at home, finding all sorts of reasons why I needed to go on facebook and PGF. Then I decided to nip into town and go to my uni library with the hope of getting more work done...I then sat looking at a computer there for three hours!

I don't know why I can't get motivated today, the doom and gloom weather doesn't help either! I think I'm going to give up and hopefully tomorrow will be a better day :(

Whatever you do Wal, don't get rid of your curls...I watched my friend go from a head full of curly locks to him having it poker straight everyday, and it saddened me!

Saying that, my boyfriend hasn't got a curl in sight. He's got blond/mousy coloured hair and he just puts some weird stuff on it every morning (I've just asked him and it's called vo5 matt clay) which makes it spike up slighty but not in a retro Gareth Gates kind of way. It's not gel so it looks good. It literally takes him about 2 minutes and he looks gorgeous! Okay, maybe I'm biased, but he does have good hair!

Although Daniel Craig is always a good one to go off. Let us know what you decide!

Mytomatoes does take some getting used to!

Wow, KC, 13 is great! I managed 11 today and then went out for tea, so I don't think either of us has done badly today!