Heh, I've been mostly eating healthy salads, but I did cave in and buy some choc ices, and now they're all I want :$

Making progress on my paper, but it's painfully slow. I may be working through the weekend. Good luck everyone else with theirs!

I have 2 hours (before torchwood is on :p ) I need to get a whole section i.e. 2000 words done.

Morning all!

Today, I need to make serious progress on the journal article I have to email to co-author on Monday. I really don't want to spend the whole weekend working on it. I'm finding it really difficult to focus though, it's just so much easier to surf the web instead.

Time to knuckle down to it!

Morning! Good luck with the journal paper Batfink.

A late start for me today because I got up late :$ I have to start preparing a grant proposal over the next few days and as the grant is for October 2012 and I'm still yet to find something for *this* year I'm finding it a bit depressing.

Anyway. My first goal today is to revisit my least favourite data chapter and make a few changes.

My first goal is done. Turns out that my least favourite data chapter isn't that bad at all (its amazing what a bit of distance gained from some time away does). My next goal is to read through a second data chapter and make some changes.

I'm not making much progress, and getting really frustrated. So frustrated that I ended up punching the desk and hurt my hand :$ I think I must be hormonal or something! But I just got invited to the cinema this evening to watch Harry Potter, so I'm going to do what I can before then and just accept that I'll be working this weekend. Getting away this evening seems important for my sanity!

Sorry to hear you're having a tough day. I'm also going to be working over the weekend, if it makes you feel any better!

I've now gone through the second data chapter. I'm still not entirely convinced there aren't changes to be made, but will see how I feel about it once I've printed it and out and read it, which I'll do next week.

I *should* carry on working and prepare a manuscript for publication (have been meaning to do this for ages) but I'm losing concentration so I'll tackle it tomorrow.

It'd be really mean to be pleased someone else is working this weekend :p

We're going to a fairly early film showing so I have to leave in half an hour to get there on time. So I may as well not do any more work today. Oh dear, a bad day. But hopefully I can steam through a load of it tomorrow!

I've been trying to get my lit review done (well re-done) this weekend. I have until saturday lunchtime to get it done really. I need to spend the rest of tonight doing all the bits i've highlighted and thought 'I'll do that later' urgh! and then I'm going to print it off, and add the important bits about why I'm doing my research tomorrow, when I have a clear head.

Morning all. Good luck with the lit review Sneaks.

Today I am sorting out a paper for a publication. It was rejected a while ago but won't actually need that much work to send it somewhere else but I've just not found the time yet. My first goal is to read through and do any edits to the content.

Morning! Good luck with it all, Sneaks and Star-shaped.

Today, I'm determined to crack a good portion of my journal article. I don't want to have to work all day tomorrow on it as well. Also, MrBatfink is going to bring me nice food and take me for a beer once he's watched the rugby this afternoon, and I want to be in a position to enjoy that!

I'm going to start at the beginning of my notes and just keep writing....

Good luck Batfink, and enjoy your beer this afternoon! I'm looking forward to a cider and a movie once my work/housework/revision for my driving theory test (Saturdays are so exhausting!) is done.

I am now happy with the content of the paper. I'm feeling like a right idiot for not sorting this out and submitting it sooner! My next goal is change the format of the references etc to fit in with the journal's requirements.

Phew, it's not been going too badly today, after so much stress over the last few days. I've written 2500 words today, quite a lot from notes rather than brand new but all the same, I'm pleased. It's been such a slog before today. MrBatfink should be arriving to whisk me away for food and beer in an hour or so, so just enough time to do a little more. If I can get to 3000 words I'll be delighted.

Hope everyone else is going well!

Well I now have a 15,000 word restructured lit review. Sent it to sup earlier and have received an email saying "it looks a lot better", I'm now wandering what the 'but' will be i.e. but it needs to be restructured again :-(

Going to see her tomorrow so fingers crossed I don't kill myself in response to horrific amounts of restructuring.

Good luck with it Sneaks, hope it's all manageable stuff!

I completely slept in this morning so am arriving late to my desk to start work. Not good really, but I've been feeling stressed for the last few days so part of me doesn't care. Anyway, the plan is to keep writing my journal article today. I'm about a third of the way through writing up detailed notes, so if I can get beyond two-thirds through today I'll be very happy.