Here we are again! I must finish a chapter tonight/early am, to free up next week for the rest of the thesis.


Anybody else up tonight working? (sprout)

Also, as I have found out in the process of putting the thesis together, it is best to only use pictures for which one can get copyright - because then this will make future dissemination and circulation of the thesis easier. I hate reading theses and finding that some of the images have a "removed for copyright reasons" instead .

Usually some of the larger libraries and museums/galleries are fine as long as the picture is accompanied with an acknowledgment. I have written emails before and kindly had things waived.

I have missed him too!

Wo ist Wally?!!

(sprout) (can we lure him out with a brussel sprout?)

I am sick and tired of it too. I am close to submission, and just don't want to think about it anymore. I won't go to graduation or use the title when (if i get it, still got to do viva) - it seems kind of pointless too in the private sector, which I will inevitably be in because they're aren't any jobs in my academic field anyway.

So yes, totally know how you feel.

I can redraft a chapter in a week if I have to. Can write one in about a fortnight. It is possible. this week I must redraft two in one week!!!!!
good luck

I am so giving up coffee and never touching it again after this thesis! i can't stay up without it or feel energised to do work in the evenings without it (which I have to do now) - but the morning headaches are so painful and miserable for the hours it takes in the morning (I don't drink coffee in the morning because I don't want to perpetuate the problem more then is neccesary) sigh. (sprout)

Congratulations

I hope to be posting here properly in the next month or so when I offically submit. So tired and poor. My hair is greying and a shaggy mop, and I really need fresh air and exercise to revive my pale and wasted frame :$ Hopefully coffee and cramming in treats well get me through. Day and Night have no meaning.

At least I have a bit of pride in the work, even when I doubt the interpretative strength of my work sometimes, at least I can look at the sources I have found and think " I can't believe I found that, and nobody else has." That is the only thing getting me through.

(sprout)

Congratulations!!!! (up)(tree)(gift)

Good luck!!


I feel like this thesis is being whacked together from old drafts, new material, bits and bobs, and isn't really working. so sick and tired of it all. Trying to get it to stick together nicely, but the unusual nature of my topic means that I had to be creative (i.e. resourceful in the archives, not falsifying! ;) )with the historical sources, and so it is all a bit messy!!!

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Here I am, and will be until 3 am MEZ at least.

Must finish a particular chapter re-draft by early morning, or at least get into a state where i can finish it by lunchtime tmrw.

Anyone else up and working nocturnally?

Thanks for you posts - I have stocked up in the supermarket for a week or writing with treats and cooked meals!!

It begins. :ß

I am due to hand-in a penultimate draft (number two) of the entire thesis pending comments before submission next month.....in 7 days!

Still so much to do, writing a "To do List" for the next 7 days....

(freaking out)

Any strategies for "feeling the fear" and getting so much done in the week?

(sprout)(sprout)(sprout)(sprout)

As I child I often went through fairly disturbing mental states. I remember that I had a recurrent dream virtually every night for several years. I would be chased up the 3 stories of our house by a terrifying witch, I would be forced to jump of the top banister, and would always wake up before I hit the ground. (shudder)

The challenge of doing a PhD has changed me a lot, I am more confident, better read, and have a better range of interests then before. My confidence in my abilities has increased, and although some parts of the phd have been plagued by eating disorders or low moods, I am def. on an upward trend now, providing the viva goes okay and I can find a job!

In 3.5 years since starting the PhD I have been able to pick up the rudiments of conversational language in a rather small and unusual European language, which is probably one of my proudest achievements and changed me a lot in giving me confidence and letting me know what I can do if I apply myself.

Because of my PhD I have recently been able to move to a different country, write-up the last parts of my thesis (almost there!!!) and start learning another new language. An amazing opportunity which I would never have had as readily without doing the PhD

So I have no regrets about doing the PhD as it has changed me for the better, but now I am just sad that there are no jobs in academia :( (sprout)