My lovely second supervisor stopped off for a chat when he was walking through the research office earlier, and he realised I was struggling so talked my paper through with me. Very helpful. He's such a sweet guy - I think also he felt sympathy for my bad head because he got hit in the face by a door last week (ouch!!!) and now has stitches in his eyebrow and says he spent the weekend headachey and dazed. Poor guy!

Anyway, he made me feel better about the paper and I've gone back to rework the structure of it following our discussion. Not entirely sure how I'm going to write an 8000 word paper by first thing Thursday morning, especially with a head pounding so hard that I've got no chance of pulling any kind of all-nighter, but hey, I'll give it a go!

Morning all! I now have 25 hours to get my paper written and sent to my supervisors, so it's going to be a tough and long day. May have to stop for a doze this evening then work through the night. But I'll see how it goes (and how my headache interferes....)

First tasks for the day:
1.) Type up new structure
2.) Cut and paste bits already written
3.) Cut and paste relevant sections from lit review/first year transfer report

Morning! what a miserable day outside! ah well, good thing I'm stuck at home editing my thesis :)

Right, so my first goal is to edit the next chapter in my thesis today. There's three studies reported in the chapter, one of which is published so I am tempted to cut that study out and say 'see publication'.... is that allowed?

Morning all. Good luck Batfink, hopefully you can have a good break tomorrow and/or Friday. Sounds like you will deserve it.

My goal for the morning is to tackle a new section of literature. I am aiming for 400-500 words by lunch time.

Good (late) morning everyone, I've ridden my horse and done a bit of housework so far, getting down to some work now.

I am tutoring an MA student on theoretical psychoanalysis tomorrow (why?), so preparing for that first. Have two papers to read, hopefully will get them done before work at 3pm. Then at work I'll read a couple of research papers for my work and write summaries hopefully. Going out tonight so need to get this done!

Hope you all have a good day, especially Batfink - good luck! :-)

First goal is done. This section is doing my head in though so I am going to move on and write the covering letter for my paper resubmission and email it to the editor.

Thanks for the best wishes everyone, and good luck with yours too!

First two goals achieved and third one almost done. MrBatfink came over with sandwiches for lunch and made me go for a walk (in the rain!) but I think the break did me good - he's such a sweetie. Now settling back to it. Goals for early afternoon:

1.) Finish cutting and pasting from first year report/lit review
2.) Start at beginning of paper and keep writing....

I have written my covering letter and sorted everything out and have realised that the article now needs to be cut down by about 900 words. Gah! This is what I'll do for the rest of the day.

Well I've finished cutting and pasting and started writing. So far up to almost 5000 words, mostly cut and pasted, so a lot of revision to do but it's looking a bit more possible that I'll get this done by the morning (final thing will be about 7-8000 words I think). Phew. Another hour of work then I'll take a break for some food, I think.

Yaaaaaawn. Still writing. Hours to go. Sob sob. :p

How has it gone Batfink? Hopefully you're in bed after having finished by now...

I am taking tomorrow and the whole weekend off because it's my birthday on Saturday and I'm going away tonight. Yay. So I want a good chunk done so I can feel good about things. My first goal is to write 400 words on the section of doom.

No such luck :-( I went to bed at 2.15 and got up again at 5.45 - my eyes were closing and I'd started typing nonsense. Been back at it for a while now and I have no chance of getting it finished by 9, but I'm going to send what I've done at that point with a promise to send an updated version later this morning when it's a bit more finished. hopefully they'll be okay with that! This is the first time in my whole life that I've actually missed a deadline!!

Anyway - good luck with the work today, star-shaped, and have a great weekend and happy birthday and all of that!

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Good morning. :)

Planning to get lot of work done today ... First goal: check questionnaires.

Good luck with the journal paper, Batfink! I'm sure they'll understand, as you've been ill. I hope you get some sleep soon...

Sometimes these things can't be helped, you did really well to try as hard as you did.

I have just about scraped 400 words, but I feel like I'm not really 'getting' it and understanding things properly. I'm going to have a gym break and then have another go at writing another 200 words or so.

Questionnaires checked. Goal 2: finish support info leaflet.

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