Thanks all, I'm feeling much better now so all is good.

Batfink I know what you mean about dead time- just before I got married I had about a week to spare- not enough time to really crack on with the major things to do, so I just did a few odd jobs!

Star-shaped those jobs sound promising!

Goals 1 and 2 are done so time now to practice my presentation (eurgh)

Goal 3 done woop.

Yes the vacancies are exciting! It would be nice to have something lined up for October when my funding finishes.

I have now abandoned one particularly problematic chapter which I think I'm going to have to chip away at gradually. I'd really like to get one chapter done and ticked off over the next couple of days so I am going to move on and edit my favourite data chapter!

Goal 4 is done, so it's now time for a late lunch before I tackle goal 5. Hope all is going well for everyone!

Sounds like you are making some progress today Button.

The analysis sections of my favourite chapter are now thesis ready. (up) I still need to edit the introduction and conclusion parts for consistency but I'm leaving that until I've drawn everything else together. My next goal is to write an abstract, finishing preparing a paper and to submit it for publication (I meant to do this on Saturday but totally failed...).

I have now submitted my journal paper. Not bad going for a Monday! My final goal is to spend a bit of time having a think and preparing some questions I have for the careers advisor on Thursday about applying for a vacancy in my department.

Ok another evening clarifying and understanding equations with a justification as to why I have not included them in my thesis. Looking forward to moving onto some other more 'fun' viva prep Qs!

Have worked my equations and my brain is frazzed! Of to bed late I think :-(

Sounds like you had a long evening Dunni.

I got up relatively late today as I went out for dinner and ended up drinking a full bottle of wine over the evening. Whoops.

Anyway I have less than 3 weeks to pull together a full draft of my thesis so need to crack on. My first goal is to address the minor comments my sup made on a chapter.

Morning all,

I also got up late, but I don't have any form of excuse for it! I'm not really sure what to do today, so I'll do a few essential jobs that shouldn't take me more than an hour, and then figure out what to do next.

Goal 1- intro, prep for meeting
Goal 2- practice presentation

Morning everyone.

I'm late to arrive at my desk, but I have already been swimming and sorted out printing my poster for summer school, so I'm not feeling too bad about it!

Goals for today
1.) Swimming - DONE
2.) Get poster sent for printing - DONE
3.) Spend one hour going through backlog of journal alerts
4.) Prioritise some journal reading and read a good number of articles
5.) Erm, obsess about whether organisations have launched my survey yet and check my emails constantly until I hear from them :$

The chapter I have been working on today is now thesis ready. Whoop! I expected this to take at least an additional day so I'm really pleased. I hope everyone else is having productive days!

Well done star-shaped, soon a full draft?

I have been getting an on-line job application done for me to return to my clinical career which is at the hospital local to where I am moving to, how convenient!! However, I really have loads of viva prep to do and not much time left tonight. So a few key Qs to do, like why I did this research - answer: because I was barking mad thinking it was a great idea at the time lol. Ok, better think of a better answer!!!

Dunni, yep. I have a deadline 2 weeks on Monday to send the whole thing to my supervisor. I'm going on holiday on the Tuesday so it'll be a nice break and he can read over it while I'm away.

Today I am moving on to getting another chapter thesis ready. My first goal (which may take all day) is to tackle the first half of the analysis.

oh dear, I've had another few days out. I need to get back into it, spurred on with hubs final bound thesis arriving - I want one too!

Goal 1: get analysis section done (yes I'm still doing that analysis section!)