ooh that's awful! I hate the attention seeking nature of facebook. WHat she really meant was 'I'm going to show off by saying that....'

Oh, Facebook can be so irritating sometimes. My pet hate is people who post something like 'I wish people could just stop being nasty' and then when someone replies asking what's up they say something like 'Don't want to say on here hun x' - ffs, don't mention it at all then, it's pointless and irritating!

Anyway, getting a bit more work done, but my progress is stupidly slow. I can see this journal article dragging on throughout tomorrow, and then Friday will be all about my second year viva, and that'll be another week gone by without having made progress on the analysis for the conference presentation at the end of the month. My partner thinks I should tell my supervisors how ill I've been for the last few weeks but I can't see how that will really help anything - the conference deadline won't change, and the viva has to take place to meet the annual renewal deadline. It's not like undergraduate, where they cut you slack for being ill, after all!

@Batfink27, I admire your strength to carry on when you are ill. I had a similar experience. I was unwell for 3 months (in the writing up stage) and got very stressful for not being able to make any progress. My supervisor advised me to make this known to the registry. His reason was that they might not be able to do anything for me now, but if I have problem extending my registration in the future, it will be a helpful record. I am sure your can submit in time for the viva to take place. But just for the unlikely case that you need to reschedule the viva, it will be helpful that your supervisor is aware of the slow progress caused by ill-heath. Hope you feel better soon.

Morning everyone!

I'm pretty tired today, I think my crazy sleeping patterns are catching up with me so I will try not to feel too guilty if I don't accomplish much. It'll be difficult not to be hard on myself as I REALLY need to get a lot done by the end of nxt wk. Goals for the day:
1) Continue amending one of my chapters
2) Review another chapter
3) Add a few more bits to my results
4) Do some referencing - after Ady saying it took some time to get these together I've decided to dedicate a whole tomato everyday to them (thank you Ady!)

Good Morning! Hope everyone wake up to a productive day.

Instead of focusing on amending chapter 4, I spent most of time restructuring other 3 core chapters yesterday.
So today's goal:
(1) finish revising chapter 4
(2) start working on chapter 6

Morning everyone!

Squaredot, thanks for the comment about telling supervisors about illness. I'm going to see how I feel today, but will probably talk to one of my supervisors later, if he's on campus today.

Made it onto campus for the first time in a couple of weeks, and am determined to get lots done today. Goals:
1.) Print out the backlog of stuff I've been waiting to print once I got onto campus again!
2.) Write a basic plan for getting my conference presentation analysis done in time
3.) Skim-read several journal articles for possible citing in journal article I'm co-authoring
4.) Write two sections to add to journal article
Actually, that seems like a lot. But I'll see how much I get done!

Goals one and two done (quicker than I thought!) so now time to get on with the journal paper.

Well done Batfink!

I, on the other hand, have not done anything, and I mean this literally! At least in relation to the theses. I managed to apply for a job and after seeing Sneaks' success in securing one yesterday, I took the courage and called someone for feedback. The person wasn't there but I'm not happy about not even being invited for an interview for a job I'm overqualified for. Obviously I won't be saying that, simply asking for feedback! I'm not holding my breath for a call back though. The joys of job hunting... maybe I should focus on the thesis first oops

I've edited only a section of the chapter.I am doing referencing at the same time so the progress is really slow.

Well done to achieve two of your goals already, Batfink!
Skig, it's ok,job hunting will give you motivation to get the thesis done, so you did still have thesis-related progress made this morning.Hope you focus well in the afternoon.

Goal 3 done. Hmm, that took a lot longer than I hoped. Time to crack on with the final goal now, though I may call it a day in an hour or so and do some work over the weekend instead of killing myself today.

@Squaredot - that is a good point! I'm just getting sick of the thesis and wanting to get it done but I realise that I'm being too hard with myself

I'm afraid afternoon so far hasn't been the most productive either as I've just spent a whole hour and a half talking to my mum on the phone but I needed it and it's definitely helped with the motivation levels :-) so I'm going to make myself a nice cuppa and dive into work 8-)

Oh God, I don't even want to think about applying for jobs yet, so glad I have another year before submission, it sounds pretty horrendous from the stories on here!

Anyway, good morning everyone!

I have my second year viva at 2pm, so today is all about preparing for that (I haven't even thought about it since submitting my report!) My supervisors want me to impress the person who's taken over as my internal examiner (last year's one left the uni) as he's the big world-famous professor in charge of the research team that is my best hope of post-doc work at this university. So, no pressure then! At least I'm not feeling quite as ill as I was at the beginning of the week.

Good luck Batfink, you can do it (up) Actually although I'm sure it must be really stressful, in my uni the only viva we have is the final, deciding one. By the time your PhD viva comes along, you'll be an old hand at them. Hope it goes well for you and you impress who you need to do; glad you're starting to feel better