Goal 2 complete, goal 3: check ethics application form again.


Aaarrrggghhhhh....

Supervision meeting this morning, to discuss the nightmare paper I didn't finish writing. Not feeling good about this, although I know my supervisors will be fine about it because I've been ill. Still got a thumping headache. And I just read through the results of my pilot questionnaire and it's really not good - the feedback suggests I need to do a major rewrite. Gah. Not happy at all!

Oh well. I think I need to take it reasonably steady today and give myself the weekend off. First goal is to prepare for supervision meeting, I'll think what to do next after talking to them.

Well, I hope everyone had a nice weekend and got a break from the work! I know I did (even if I did sneak in a little work on both Sat and Sun).

Back to the grindstone today. I have until Thursday to rewrite my journal article following a meeting with my supervisors on Friday, so this is the main focus of my work. (Great - reminds me of last week!) But I also have other deadlines to meet - they always seem to come at once! Goals for today:

1.) Rewrite abstract for conference paper following reviewers' comments and submit to conference website
2.) Go through supervisors' notes on draft journal article and draw up a plan for rewriting it
3.) Make a good start on rewriting draft journal article

Afternoon!

I know what you mean about the deadlines. I have a deadline with my supervisor next Thursday and just picked up a huge pile of marking, which is also to be returned to students next Thursday. I wanted to make a dent in it today but I haven't been given the marking scheme yet, very annoying.

My goal for this afternoon is to redraft 2 sections of literature.

Oh yes, if there's one thing worse than deadlines it's having to wait around for information from someone else before being able to get on with work for a deadline!

Anyway, my conference abstract is now rewritten and just needs submitting to the website, which I'm going to do later after a final read-through. So there's no excuse now - I have to face the journal article. Bleugh.

This week is going to be a week of long days. I have a deadline with my supervisor next week as well as 50 pieces of coursework to mark on top of that. I thought I'd get a lot longer for the marking!

So my goals are to redraft and tidy up 3 literature sections and then to mark at least 9 papers.

good luck! Just lots of reading for me today

Ouch, that does sound like a lot, good luck!

Today I need to make serious progress on rewriting my journal paper. I've also got an event to go to this evening - a university award dinner which includes a poster competition I've entered. So nice polite dinner conversation with my supervisors. Oh what fun that will be (not)! I want to get lots of work done before that.

I have redrafted my first literature section. It took me half an hour longer than I'd hoped, as I am aiming to get my writing done in 6-7 hours. BUT I am finally happy with it now.

On to the next section...

I have now finished all of my writing. This means one major section is now ticked off. I may add some bits if I have time but I am happy to send this as a draft tp my sup if not.

My next goal is to mark 9 papers.

Sounds like you're making good progress there star-shaped!

I've restructured my journal paper and made notes on the bits I need to develop further. I now have an hour until I need to set off for the award event I'm going to this evening, so hope I can rewrite the opening section in that time. Seems like a reasonable goal!

How was the award event Batfink?

Today my goals are:

Finish tidying up one major section of literature.
Attend meeting with research group.
Attend departmental seminar.
Mark 6-9 papers.
Gym.

The award event was quite good fun actually, thanks! Got to meet people from all over the university doing things related to my research area, and we had nice food and wine. I didn't win a prize but I wasn't expecting to - I think my supervisors were more hopeful of that than I was! It was nice seeing my supervisors in a less formal environment too - it was relaxed and friendly, we even chatted about places to visit by Eurostar and other inconsequential stuff. A nice night!

Today, it's back to work. I deliberately didn't turn my laptop on and was rewriting my journal paper by hand this morning. The introduction is rewritten now, and I've made a start on the next section. The next deadline for sending this to my supervisors is tomorrow at 5pm - gulp! I'm not going to work through the night again (that nearly killed me last week!) but I expect I'll be working pretty late tonight. Oh joy!

Goal for today - get everything except the discussion/conclusion redrafted (yeah, right...)

Good luck with all of your stuff!

Well, it's the final furlong here, have to submit by the end of the month! Keep finding myself torn between wanting to fix everything that's wrong... and wanting to submit the bloody thing without even spell checking! The paralysis is so bad, I've been in the library/grad centre all day, but am only now even making a goal.

Goal 1 - finish this demon section that has been plaguing me.

Good luck Teek, I hope you're managing to battle the demon section!

I'm starting to flag now, but I'm over a third of the way through rewriting my paper. A bit daunted by looking ahead and seeing the unfinished sections that are still left, but if I can keep powering through I may still make tomorrow's deadline. The stuff I've done today feels like good work so at least that's positive. I'll keep writing until I completely run out of steam then type up the handwritten changes and call it a night after that I think. Which will be a good few hours away yet! Oh well.