Aaaw Batfink! Sorry you feel poorly! I think sometimes it's better to admit defeat and head back to bed when you're ill! Why not take the afternoon off to rest and come back to it tomorrow?

I've managed to make some progress today but I'm not very happy with it, I don't really know what I'm trying to say in the chapter so how anyone else is going to know is beyond me! Oh well! Hope you're feeling ok Batfink!

Thanks Lindalou, I had some lemsip and that helped, so I ran some simple stats tests and cut and pasted results into word - brainless jobs that I'd only end up doing tomorrow anyway! Early night tonight I think.

Morning all,

Having a flat day today and I haven't even started yet! Spent most of yesterday evening (and night!) thinking, I can't do it, I'm not intelligent enough or competent to do it :-( I know this is probably par for the course but I really don't think I'm going to finish it at the moment!

Anyway! Enough of my depressing stuff - hope you are all raring to go this morning! I really hope I can get out of this downer before the end of the day! At least it's pancake day today, huzzah!

Hope you get your mojo back Linda, I'm sure all your feelings are completely normal! Hope you're feeling better Batfink.

I'm not really in the mood for work today, but I need to get cracking because I won't be able to get much work done tomorrow and thursday for various reasons.

So my goal for the day is to carry on with my conference presentation, and hopefully get it finished.

Thanks Button, I'm feeling a lot better than I did first thing this morning! I think I'm just conscious that I do only have 10 months left and it's freaking me out slightly!

I hope Batfink is feeling better too, I am starting to feel the lurgy now (thanks fiance!) so I'm just trying to get my head round a piece of work I have to complete for my DoS by tomorrow, then once I've done that I can get on with writing some more of my chapter. I really don't have time to be ill right now! Hope you're having a good day Button! I know the feeling very well, I had one of those, "can't be bothered" days yesterday which is probably why I'm freaking out so much today! I'm excited that it's pancake day today though, yay I love pancakes!

Hope everyone has had a good day, I'm giving up now as I'm just writing rubbish and I'm starting to feel the lurgy properly! I managed to achieve the piece of work for my DoS and my daily quota of words though so that's good. I'm still not happy with the structure of the chapter but I'm just going to concentrate on getting the main body of text there, then cutting and pasting afterwards.

Have a good pancake day, see you back here tomorrow to carry on!

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The trolls strike again! I'm feeling pretty lousy today, runny itchy sore nose and sore throat but I must keep going otherwise I'll just make more work for myself in the long run and there's always the risk I'll feel worse tomorrow! I want to get my minimum word count done today then I'm going to give up!

Submit first analytical chapter to supervisor tomorrow! Finish the last section of the chapter today!

Hope you're feeling better, Lindalou.

I spent the last 2 days lying on the sofa feeling like death warmed up. I was intending to try doing some work yesterday but just didn't find the energy. Anyway, I'm feeling a bit more capable today, and my supervisors have also said I can send my chapter to them next Wed instead of tomorrow. Which is lucky, as I haven't even started writing it yet! Oh dear.

I'm going to ease myself back into the work today, because I'm not really 100% yet. Goals:
1.) Pull out the main bits of data that I'm going to discuss in my chapter
2.) Develop a plan for the chapter
3.) Write something, even if it's rubbish!
4.) Go to the shops for food

Thanks Batfink! I actually feel worse today as I predicted yesterday :-( but I didn't manage to get anything done yesterday at all so I feel like I have to do something today..! I hate stupid colds, they are so annoying! what an annoying virus! Glad to hear you're feeling better anyway, I'm hoping I can fend this one off fairly quickly as my brain is refusing to function properly and feels like (sprout)

That's how I felt yesterday and the day before (maybe its a computer virus, her her...) - maybe you need to take some time to do nothign to give your body a chance to throw it off - I definitely feel better for doing that.

I've worked out what data I need to include in my chapter and have a rough idea of the structure, want to firm that up a bit before I try to write anything (it's always typing that first paragraph that I find really difficult!) But I think I'll make good progfress once I get going. If I don't cough my lungs up in the meantime!

Hehe a cold computer virus! I just feel so guilty because I didn't get anything done yesterday! But I think I will just finish what I'm doing now then allow myself the rest of the afternoon off. No point prolonging the thing by working too hard I suppose!

Sounds like you've made some good progress this morning Batfink, I wish I was better at structuring my work but I just tend to write and then worry about it afterwards! I used to be much better at structuring when I was an undergrad, I don't really know what's happened to me to be honest! Oh well! Have a good afternoon :-) hope you're not coughing too much!

Right, I'm done, I'm disappearing under a pile of snotty tissues and drowning here, so I'm quitting for the day! See you tomorrow hopefully!