Good morning all! I'm a bit later today as my fiance is working from home too and we had a leisurely breakfast together!

As I've worked pretty hard this week I'm going to have a slightly easier day today. I'm going to work on my introduction and contextual chapters today as my brain is tired and I have drafts worked up already!

Aah I'm so jealous Button! Puppy love! I will work on my fiance after we're married, hehe! ;-) and well done on your presentation yesterday, that is fab news! (up)

Good luck with the work today everyone!

Well done with the presentation, Button!

I'm more of a cat person myself, much less work! But I don't have a cat at the moment, which is lucky, as it wouldn't be able to move with me to MrBatfink's fourth floor city centre apartment in a few weeks.

I've not made any progress so far today. I'm doing my final test interview in an hour and maybe I'll just be happy with doing that and then a few little other jobs afterwards and call it a day. I'm tired, I think I need a proper weekend off and then start fresh on Monday.

Well done, Button. That's fantastic. :)

I'd love to have a cat again one day, but as long as I'm renting and moving house every year it's not really going to be feasible. It's definitely on my plan for when I'm properly grown up and settled down somewhere.

I've just got one more read through to do, then I'm ready to print. Feedback is going to happen on Monday so I think I might look at a couple of papers on a *different topic* :D, relax tonight and do some baking and earning my good-housemate-points. :)

Just can't wait to have this properly done so I can go back to doing experiments that are actually interesting rather than things to plug the gaps.

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Morning everyone, hope you all had a good weekend and are now feeling refreshed and ready to go! I feel lively and alert, no idea why really, it took me ages to wake up this morning!

Goals for today:
1.) Prepare for supervision meeting
2.) Attend supervision meeting and write up notes afterwards
3.) Prepare for research interviews, print off necessary documents etc
4.) Continue with data analysis from last week

Ooh - and on edit - I have four stars suddenly! Go me! Been stuck on three stars for ages, must have somehow been helpful to someone! Look how shiny and pretty they are :p

First three goals done, and some extra admin type stuff as well. I feel like I've made good progress, even though I haven't got on to my fourth goal for today. It's a bit late in the day to start the data analysis - the procedures I'm running are quite involved and I don't want to stop half way through - so I'll save that for tomorrow and instead spend the rest of the day on admin.

Hope everyone else's day has gone well!

Morning all,

I was at uni on friday, and then had sat/sun and mon off naughty me, so I need to get cracking now!

Goal 1- chase up feedback
Goal 2- do cv
Goal 3- do some photocopying

I can then get on with editing my first findings chapter, which is going to be a very lengthy process!

Good luck today all!

We all need time off occasionally Button, and it sounds like you earned it last week! Hope you enjoyed the time anyway.

I've been swimming this morning so have only just got to the department. Feel good for the exercise though.

My goals for today:
1.) Go swimming - DONE
2.) Check I have everything ready for interviews tomorrow
3.) Continue with data analysis - as minimum run analysis on 2 samples
4.) Whatever time is left, go through journal alerts and check for new literature

I've done my data analysis on 2 samples, and am a little brain-fogged as a result! Time to do half an hour of going through journal alerts before I get the bus home - and have a nice evening off!

Hope everyone else's work has gone well.

Sounds like you had a good day Batfink!

I need to get cracking because I really have to go to the gym today, I haven't been in months!

Goal 1- sort draft contents page
Goal 2- carry on editing findings chapter 1

Good luck today all!

Hope you had a good day and made it to the gym yesterday, Button!

Yesterday I was doing interviews in one of the organisations I'm studying. Went well. My first interviews, apart from pilot interviews - it's very different when it's for real! But kind of enjoyable. More interviews tomorrow, but for today I'm back on campus.

Goals for today:
1.) Go swimming - DONE
2.) Send several emails - DONE
3.) Print documents needed for tomorrow's interviews
4.) Follow up on software purchase
5.) Revisit structure of thesis analysis chapters
6.) Plan remaining data analysis

Well done on the interviews Batfink!

I was good and went to the gym yesterday, was a bit of a shock to the system!

I also did a massive restructuring of my findings chapters, which means I now have 4 chapters rather than 2. They all need serious work eugh. I'm also thinking of combining my findings and discussion sections (or at least sort of) because it makes much more sense. But I'm in a pickle because it means writing my findings and then going back to my hash of a literature review to find out whether my study supports any previous literature, and then writing the discussion parts. But I can't really do that until I've sorted my lit review! So I'm in one of those 'where on earth do I start' moods, which equates to a 'let's go into denial and procrastinate instead' mood.

Okay, rant over, I'll get there! Going to have lunch with hubby, then hubs is off to work and I'll get started.


First and only goal: get cracking with chapter 1

Good luck today Batfink!

Thanks Button, well done on getting to the gym! And on the restructuring job - sounds like you're well on your way, even if it is temporarily difficult to see the wood for the trees. You'll get there!

I've made good progress on my goals for today. I think I've worked out how to structure my results chapters, but it does involve some rejigging of the way I present the questions I want to address, just to keep a logicial flow. But I know my supervisors will probably tell me to do it another way, so I'm not getting too attached to this way of doing it just yet! Time to plan out exactly what analyses are needed so I can see how much there is still left to do. Gulp!

Hope your day went well yesterday Batfink!

I made a tiny bit of progress yesterday, but really want to make more today. I don't really have any excuses for not doing work today either.

First and only goal- findings chapters

Hope it's gone well today Button!

I spent today doing interviews. Well, two interviews, but in different organisations and quite spread out timewise, so it took most of the day anyway. They went well though so I'm happy. Gonna download the files and then go to the pub I think, it's too sunny to do any more work today!

Well done Batfink! The sun has officially been and gone up North, so I'm working away!

I've done really well today so I'm very pleased, although it did help that hubby was home for most of the day and I didn't have to deal with puppy distractions! I will have finished one section of my findings if I can just get this really difficult bit written, I am determined! I then need to go to the gym (down)

Not sure if I'll be working over the weekend, will have to see what mood I'm in. So if I'm not about, have a great weekend all!