Ha, good luck with supervision Lindalou - hope yesterday's moaning session got that out of your system! And hope you're feeling better today Button.

Started the day with a 2km swim, which was exhausting at the time but has now left me strangely exhilarated and ready to get cracking.

Goals for today:
1.) Go swimming - DONE
2.) Read and make notes on draft journal paper in preparation for meeting with co-authors
3.) Meet with co-authors
4.) Meet with student who knows about measuring devices and software, figure out what I'm doing
5.) Go through draft interview schedule again and print out

Gosh Batfink, sounds like a busy day you have planned there! I've decided I'm going to submit an abstract for a conference that I've wanted to go to for ages so we'll see if I get anywhere! :-s

Hope you've had a good day!

Good luck with the abstract, Lindalou! It's generally worth a shot.

I have had a busy day today, but a good one - I've now achieved all of my goals and am feeling back on top of things after being very much under pressure at the start of the week. I'm going to surf the net until I can go for the bus in 20 minutes, and I may even celebrate the progress with a glass of wine tonight!

Sounds like you had a great day yesterday Batfink, so well done you (up)

I'm up early this morning with the hope that I can get some more work done! My only goal, as ever, is to get some more of this chapter done!

Good luck to everyone working today!

You were up early, Lindalou! Good luck with the chapter.

I've already tidied my desk and done some filing this morning, but now it's time to get down to some work. I'm going to continue with data analysis today. Goals:
1.) Look at attitude statements and demographics in all 3 samples
2.) Think through scale building
3.) Create scales in all 3 SPSS files
4.) Initial analysis of scale results

Good morning Batfink, thank you for your advice on my thread! I've achieved some writing this morning so far and spent about half an hour doing admin type stuff so that's good, I feel less rubbish about myself now! I want to get another 500 words written and then make a start on my conference abstract now. Hope you're having a good day so far :-)

I'm always more productive when I'm up early, I just wish I had the ability to get out of bed at that time every day! I suppose I ought to get used to it, what with having to get a job in the next year!

I've managed to beat my daily word count already today, and I've drafted up an abstract, and also sorted out lots of personal admin so I'm doing really rather well! I'm going to have lunch now as I think I deserve it!

Hope you're all having a good day! (turkey)

Sounds like you're doing really well today Lindalou, that's great.

I realised when I started goal 1 that I'd completely misjudged how much work was involved, so that's turned into pretty much the only thing I'll get done today!

Oh well, I can make a start on the other goals tomorrow morning (before heading out for a hedonistic day watching rugby in the pub with my Welsh partner, a really good Irish friend and a load of other mates of various nationalities (go Wales, you can win the grand slam!). Silly amounts of beer will be drunk - it is St Paddy's Day and also the end of the Six Nations competition, so there's no excuse not to party!) I've really been looking forward to this weekend, and as I've made some really good progress this week I feel like I've earned it too!

Hi all!

Hope everyone had a nice weekend, I did!

Goal 1- practice presentation 1
Goal 2- practice presentation 2
Goal 3- start editing conference presentation

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Morning all, Hope you had a good weekend Batfink, I understand Wales won the grand slam so I expect there was a fair bit of partying over the weekend! I'm up a bit later today as I had a ridiculously busy mother's day yesterday so I needed a bit of rest! I'm going to spend a bit of time planning this morning so that I can get my chapter finished without having a nervous breakdown! But before I do that, I'm going to amend my methodology chapter ready for supervision in a few weeks time. So, goals for today:

Goal 1: Make amendments to methodology chapter
Goal 2: Plan the remainder of Chapter 7
Goal 3: Write at least 500 words of Chapter 7!

Have a great day everyone!

*edited to correct typos!

Morning Button! Good to see you :-)

Sounds like you've got a busy day Linda!

Goal 1 is done. I'm now going to quickly blast through presentation 2 as I practiced it yesterday, but before I start goal 3 I think I'll do some planning like you Linda! I'm looking at the monthly plan I prepared just before Christmas and it seems it needs altering as I've changed my mind about the tasks to do next!

We booked a holiday at the weekend, 2 weeks in the sun in July woohoo, so something great to look forward to!

Hehe I know exactly what you mean - I had it all mapped out in my diary but it seems to be all going to pot now! I've had a little looky at my methodology but I'm going to put it to one side until later as it needs SO much work! I've mapped out the rest of my chapter 7 though so that's helped a lot to get me to focus. I'm now going to get on with some writing!

Holiday sounds great, I can't wait for mine, I've got one booked in July! Can't wait for some lovely sunshine and a relax!

Ooh, a holiday in the sun sounds wonderful!

Hello both of you, sounds like you're both making great starts to the week already. And yes, we had a fantastic weekend after Wales won the Grand Slam on Saturday - really good fun. Though a little worse for wear yesterday!

Goals for today (now I'm finally ready to start work!):
1.) Go through interview questions for final time
2.) Meet first pilot person to test interview questions
3.) Revise interview questions in light of first pilot
4.) Finish one set of data analysis on third sample
5.) Plan next set of data analysis and get started on it

Sounds like we're all working away today!

I've done goals 1 and 2, so now going to sort my plan out and then get cracking with goal 3. I may also need to eat some chocolate; need it all out of the house before I start my diet on Thursday, eugh (down)