and LOL at your image, that made me laugh !! maybe one day we can turn it into a phd comic strip! and send it to the phders comics website. you know the one.

oh and in answer to your question. my day was all full of , im gonna do this and this and this and that and this. lol and did about an hours work, felt hungry. had lunch, took a break, felt tired, took a 2 hour nap! and whoooosh the day's gone. i love how every morning i have such great expectations of what i'm going to do!
"Better yet, where possible, avoid planning altogether. Use the "ready, fire, aim" approach, and correct course as you go along. "

"Sometimes, the secret to getting things done is just to do them."

i'm gonna use that philosophy tommorow. instead of spending half an hour making a long list of things i wanna do. and planning and planning. i will just list one thing i want to do. then once i've done that. tick it off. and then move onto the next thing.

"how do you eat an elephant? - one bite at a time" not that you would want to eat an elephant.

inspriring article,
check it out!

http://lifedev.net/2008/03/10-ways-historys-finest-kept-focused-at-work/

"7. Aim low

Don’t schedule every minute of your day. Leo at Zenhabits suggests that we have morning and evening routines, and leave the middle of the day open for completing key tasks and other things that come up.

Daily routines are supposed to make things easier, not more complicated. Micro managing every minute of your day does not work."
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*clocking in*

going by the above philosophy: aiming low today.

from yesterday:
did some rough stuff for aim 1 and aim 2. flagged interesting cases.
did about 2 hours and half hours

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todays aim:
chapter 3:
1. work on the SNP section.
a) SNP global table
b) cluster analysis
c) penny analysis
d) compare data with M/S

hey TG hope you had fun with your friends!

Hey Anthropologa, i hope you're okay. not heard from you for quite awhile.

Hi!
Lara: Hope your day is going well. Just think it's another start to a fresh week and we can all get lots done this week.

As for me, had a good catch up last night with some friends and am now ploughing through chapter 7 with some ABBA songs in the background!!
Am slowly getting there, but lots still to do so am now going to get back to it!
Hope your chapter 3 is coming along nicely and that you are having a good day.

PS the inspiring article was fab, thanks for posting the link!

thanks TG ! glad you liked the article
sounds like your making excellent progress, well done you you're nearly there!!

well i did about an hour this morning. faffed around abit, got my bike fixed, and a few other little things. he told me i should start waking up at 8am EVERYDAY and keep the routine. so tommorow is a fresh new day and going to wake up at 8am, and go to bed by midnight everyday no matter what. as JB always says, its the EVERYDAY that counts. and my brother said i *must* keep to a routine of waking up at a specific time. and 8am, is a good time to aim for.

just had a late lunch with the family (sunday tradition). and i'm taking a break now, and treating myself to watching a dvd film hehe. naughty me. and then will work for a few hours in the evening.

and TG you're so right, it's a fresh week starting monday!
a clean slate to work on.

sorry *he* being my brother, he was asking me how my thesis was going. and how i tried his suggestion waking up at 5am, for a couple of days, but felt too tired all day, so couldnt do it. then started at 10am again. so he suggested 8am a good compromise, but to make sure i go to bed by midnight.

he's right. a daily routine is very important.

and hehe i do that too! lately i've been listening to Elvis whilst studying. anything that gets you through! and ABBA have some really great songs!!

Hi lara,

Hope you enjoyed your Sunday lunch. I think that is lovely, a real family time. I think your brother is right! 8 am is a good compromise!!!!!!
Hope you have had a good day today and that you enjoyed watching the DvD.
I have not had a bad day, just finished a last tub of icecream!! Have also just finished chapter 7!! Have sent it to my sup via email so least it has gone! I am sure it can be improved but at least it is something and it is the best i can do which is all i can hope for!

I am sure it will get changed again, but i guess it is something to be going along with!!
Anyway, hope the rest of your day has gone well and see you tomorrow!!
Aims for tomorrow for me: Start sorting out the mess that is chapter 1!!!!!

Hi Everyone!

Hope everybody had a good weekend, and here we go to another week!
Aims for today for me:

1. Nice cup of tea!

2. Chapter 1, work on sections 1.1 and 1.2.

3. Start re-reading papers

4. Football game tonight!

Have a great day everyone!

morning everyone, glad everyone is battling on. My weekend was good, had the wedding then was babysitting my little godchildren over night they are only 2 and 4 so Im wrecked but was all good!! Aims for today are:
1. Type up results from the lab
2. read key chp 2 section 2 book

Here's to a fresh start and a productive week