Done - good luck!

That's a horrific number of applications!

I'm still looking at both academic and non-academic posts. There is absolutely no way I want to go down the road of competing for one six month academic contract after another, all in different places, so I am really just keeping an eye on anything interesting that's within reach of where I live, and looking at other jobs too.

Hope your surgery goes well, Zutterfly, and definitely a good idea to plan some time off around it.

I thought I would have a very productive week as my partner is away on a trip and I had visions of extending my working hours etc. However it is turning out to be one of those horrible weeks when everything goes wrong and needs sorted at home! What about you?

Are all your chapters written, Hugh? I've got about 50,000 words now but with 2 or 3 chapters still to write. I'm not expecting to go up to the maximum word count, as I tend to have the opposite issue and write a bit too concisely! I'm thinking that when it's all put together for editing, there will be obvious areas of repetition and stuff that can come out.

Hopefully Milo got his/her essay done four years ago and won't need to cheat by paying someone to do it :)

Another week, another chapter :) What about you, Hugh?

What's a coding framework? Have you both used a type of analysis that requires this, or is this something that a thesis should have and that I've never heard of? Eek!

I tend to do the same as you, Tudor_Queen, and raise stuff so that it can be sorted. I have found over the years, though, that this just makes some people deeply uncomfortable and they will go to any lengths to shut the conversation back up without anything being resolved. As much as it makes me uncomfortable doing this, I am gradually learning that some people just don't feel comfortable with open, frank styles. I think in a supervisor-supervisee setting, with the power imbalance that you mention, I would probably find a way to work with her preferences, even if it meant stuffing my fist in my mouth at times!

I have had a bully of a manager in a (non-academic) job before and I lined up another job, left the one with the bully and put in a complaint. Don't over-think it - your future self won't thank you for staying with a bully!

Sounds like quite an awkward situation. How involved is your supervisor with your research design - was the project one that they suggested initially? Is he/she an expert in your field (rather than just having some research interests in common)? I'm just wondering if they feel threatened in some way by your ideas departing from theirs - could be a case for trying to manage someone's ego!