Morning!

I need to have a productive day as well today, I'm feeling under pressure with everything I have to get done in a short period of time.

Goals for today:

1.) Finish drafting interview schedule for next week's initial interviews
2.) Email interviewee who wants more info
3.) Make a lot of progress on draft journal article
4.) Sort out bits and pieces of non-PhD stuff

Morning everyone.

My goal for today is to write 750 words and get the document I'm working on up to 5000 (I am starting to slow down now that I am editing and rewriting). So, 300 by lunch.

Hi all,

I'm having a weird issue at the mo. I actually *want* to do PhD work! - but I have NO time :-( This week I have to work 6 days towards another project and at the weekends I've been working flat out with hubby to get his PhD done. And when I go onto mine in the evenings, he starts moaning that we haven't spent any time together relaxing.

So my weekdays are all other work, weekends are his work, then I have to sit and watch tv otherwise he gets in a mood :-( I've tried explaining about how little I'm getting done during the week, but he just says I should prioritise my time better - not helpful considering my sup is my sup and my boss for the other work, so she just piles it on.

ah well. Today's first goal:

open SPSS!

Sneaks, I would find that seriously annoying - in fact, I'd be furious if my other half reacted that way! So it's okay for you to spend your weekends helping him but you can't spend time on your own work? That's rubbish! I hope this is only a short-term situation...

I just had to write a really awkward email to someone I'm interviewing next week. They asked me to send them details about what I'm going to ask, so I sent them a summary outlining the main areas we'd talk about but not going into enough detail to compromise the integrity of the interview. And then they started demanding to see the actual questions in advance! So I've just had to email them tactfully explaining that no, I won't send them the actual questions in advance, because if they have time to think about the things I'm asking that mkight change their answers, and anyway, it's not a test, they can't fail it... I have a nasty feeling they're going to pull out of being interviewed, even though I was as tactful and patient as I could be. Oh well! :$

That's a couple of goals dealt with, anyway. Now onto the big one - writing my journal article.

ooh I'd be careful there Batfink, I had a few participants like that.

I'd be very very clear about confidentiality and anonymity - get them to signed an informed consent form (if you don't anyway) and give them a copy of the confidentiality info - i.e. how you treat and store the data.

I had one person that tried to complain abotu an interview to the uni - luckily the uni recognised that I'd done everything in accordance with ethical guidelines - I think this person was just trying to be difficult :-s

ooh I'd be careful there Batfink, I had a few participants like that.

I'd be very very clear about confidentiality and anonymity - get them to signed an informed consent form (if you don't anyway) and give them a copy of the confidentiality info - i.e. how you treat and store the data.

I had one person that tried to complain abotu an interview to the uni - luckily the uni recognised that I'd done everything in accordance with ethical guidelines - I think this person was just trying to be difficult :-s

Goal 1: Organise papers (done)
Goal 2: Read Papers
Goal 3: Analyse papers read

Yikes, that's really not a good way for them to react, Sneaks! I hope none of mine end up like that. Yes, I was going to do all the things you suggest, but thanks for reminding me anyway - I always have this nagging fear that I'll forget something really basic and obvious! Anyway, the interviewee just replied to my email saying it's all fine, they understand, so I was stressing about nothing!

I have now written 600 words. But I am starting to doubt myself and feel like my analysis is a bit chaotic. I think this is part of the process which I need to learn to embrace but I hate feeling like this. My goal for the afternoon is to edit and to get to a place where I feel like I have more of a handle on things.

GGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR:-s:-s:-s

Oh dear, Pink_numbers, is something wrong?

yup! you know one of those days where nothing goes right?

try not to get too stressed Pink_Numbers. We all have these days from time to time and everything probably seems worse than it is if you're still feeling ill...

Hope you're not feeling too stressed pink_numbers - sometimes just going aaaaaaarrrrggghhh can really help! And we all have days like that. Take a deep breath - it will all get better :p

I'm really not achieving much at the moment. Must get back to work! Must make myself do something!

I have now upped my word count by 1,300 (albeit some of this was copied and pasted) and feel like I have a better handle on things.

I am now starting to get sick of the chapter though so I am going to spend the rest of the day organising the notes from the reading I have done over the last couple of months. This is something which I used to do weekly but I have been terrible recently and it started getting so bad that I kept putting it off.