Morning all, hope everyone had a great weekend!

I'm getting on with my first findigns chapter again today, but my parents are coming round mid afternoon so I'm not sure how much I'll actually get done today. Hubby is working late tonight though so I might work late too.

Goal 1- edit section 4.2.1

Morning Button, good luck with the work!

I did another interview this morning, and have two lined up for this afternoon, and now I have an hour to kill in between. Don't want to get my head into anything involved so I'm not sure what to do. Go through emails and tidy up files maybe.

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It's hard going with this chapter today! But I'm getting there. Goal 1 is done, goal 2 would have been to do the next section which is also done.

Goal 3- edit section 4.2.3 before lunch
Goal 4- tidy house for parents coming
Goal 5- do summary of chapter

That will then mean that this chapter will be mostly done, and will just need the refs to previous lit going in which I'm not going to do yet. So if I can get that all done today I'll be able to start editing the second chapter tomorrow, oh the joy!

It's hard knowing that after today I've still got to edit three other findings chapters which need serious work, eugh!

Sounds to me like you're making good progress, Button, so don't lose heart! I'm a long way off having results chapters to work on, far too much else left to do.

Three interviews done today. I'm going to download the recordings to my laptop then sort out a load of references on RefWorks - that'll be a useful way to use up the rest of today!

Morning all!

I'm majorly stressing today - I promised my sups a new chapter for the end of April but I really only have 2 weeks to work on it because I'll be off for most of the last 2 weeks of April. It's based on a piece of work I did in my first year and I've ended up deleting most of it! I totally feel like I'm never going to get it done today :-( on top of that some money has gone missing from my bank account and I'm frantically trying to get it sorted! It is totally NOT GOOD! And breathe....!

Sounds like you've all had a good few days, I've not been online much as I had a tummy bug last week which totally wiped me out (thanks to my little nephew for that!) and I've lost even more time!

I'm feeling too stressed to set a goal today, but I would like to get a substantial amount of writing done today, so here goes!

Good to see you back Linda, tummy bugs are rubbish. Try and calm down and think about things rationally. Do you have a lot of the info to write your next chapter, or do you need to do any researching before it? If it's a findings chapters you could always get the basics together and then start theorising. Maybe try mytomatoes? I'm sure your sups will understand; everyone gets ill and it does set us back!

With regards to the money going out of your account, could it be anything related to the wedding seeing as you're so close to it now? Try not to stress about it (although I know it's hard). My mum had money taken from her account and the bank sorted it.

Today I'm starting to edit my second (of four) findings chapters today, eugh. I always find it hard to get going with it, and then once I'm in the middle of it, it's much easier! May get myself another brew and then crack on.

Goal 1- read what already written for findings chapter 2
Goal 2- edit section 5.1.1

Good luck today all!

Thanks Button, I needed to take a deep breath and calm down! It's a theoretical framework chapter which I penned back in my first year and it's totally rubbish, I think I was expecting it to be a nice "easy" chapter to write before the wedding but I'm having to do a lot more work than I was anticipating! Luckily though I have a huge pile of references to work through so I'm just going through that now and adding to the content of the chapter. I'll focus on doing that this week then spend next week tidying it up into a logical story! I'll see how I get on - if I really can't get it done I'll ask for an extension or send them an unfinished chapter with a big sorry on it!

I've spoken to the bank now and they've identified the source, it was the hotel from my hen do double charging me, so I've spoken to them now and they've hopefully sorted it. It's not showing on my internet banking yet but I'll give them a few hours to update!

I've got a pile of editing mounting up to do, I'm like you Button, I hate going back and doing it! That will be my life after June though! Re-editing and re-drafting until Christmas if all goes to plan! :p

Sounds like you've worked out what you're doing now, Lindalou - good stuff! Don't stress about the work - I've had to go to my supervisors a couple of times to beg for extra time on bits because of illness and they've always been fine about it. You're obviously doing the work, so they know you're not shirking!

I've done all but one of my interviews now (one's on holiday so delayed his interview til week after next) so my next job is to transcribe the interviews. But I'm on campus today and didn't fancy lugging my footpedal thing in with me, so I'll start that at home tomorrow. Instead, today I'm going to have a reading day - I feel like I haven't done much reading for ages!

Goals for the day:
1.) Go swimming - DONE
2.) Identify key journal articles to read
3.) Start reading! See how much I can do in one day...

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Good luck with the reading Batfink, and glad you're getting sorted Linda!

I've done goals 1 and 2, now on to goal 3:

Goal 3- edit section 5.1.2
Goal 4- edit section 5.2.1

I have a feeling that goal 4 will take most of the day to sort, as it's a big important one!

I'm doing my best not to stress but I'm going back to my bank account every so often and it still looks like the money is missing - how long do you think it will take for them to refund me? I suppose it'll take a few days to clear...

I'm feeling a bit more cheerful about the work now, I've managed to cut all the rubbish from the chapter and I'm now just focusing on adding bulk so I'm actually managing to increase the word count rather than reduce it! It's funny cos I started with 9,000 words and now I'm down to 3,500!

Well done for getting your first 2 goals done Button, and reading sounds like a plan Batfink! I find transcribing at home much easier, less interruptions! You're lucky you've got a footpedal, I had to do mine with a piece of software where I used the keyboard, I kept forgetting which keys were pause and rewind though! It was so funny listening back to myself, especially on mega slow!

Linda it does take a while to show up on your account. But if the hen do place has acknnowledged the mistake then it will just be processing, so try not to worry. Is it a lot of money? The hen do place may also be able to provide a written acknowledgement that the money is going through? Sounds like the writing is coming along though!

I've done goal 3 and actually I don't think goal 4 will take the whole day, so I'll start it before lunch and then finish it this afternoon.

I'm just panicking, yes it was a lot of money, enough to cover 9 people staying at their 5* hotel! :$ I'll give it until tomorrow morning and then I'll ring the hotel asking them to confirm in writing, that's a really good idea Button!

Well done with getting your goals done! I'm going to keep going until 2pm then have a longer break for lunch, although I may change my mind if I start to get ridiculously hungry before then!

Ok I may have underestimated how hungry I actually am, it's been horrible being ill as it's been a struggle to know if I'm hungry or feeling sick over the last week! But I am definitely hungry now so I'm going to have some lunch!

Goal 3 and 4 are done, although I haven't had lunch yet!

Goal 5- section 5.2.2
Goal 6- 5.2.3

Not sure I'll get through all that today as I'm going to have an hours lunch break to sort puppy out, and then I can only work up until 4.30 today. So that only gives me around 90 mins left to work after lunch!

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Well puppy is still asleep and I'm reluctant to wake her, the more quiet I get the better! The only problem is she's asleep in the kitchen downstairs and I'm STARVING!

On a more positive note goals 5 and 6 are done, which means I only one more sub-section to edit before the whole section is done!

Goal 7- edit section 5.2.4