Morning Espresso & everyone else!

Well I wasn't planning on working today but my husband is still sound asleep and I was awake at the crack of dawn so thought why not!

Wow, Espresso, it seems like you are so close, with examiners nearly sorted, dates set and a draft nearly complete. I'm very envious - originally I was planning on submitting in Oct but now I am due to start a full time job in a month and so need to cram in as much as possible before then and then juggle work and phd until it's done - I'm hoping early next year but at the moment am just taking it one day at a time otherwise I'll freak out with how much I have to do!!

I'm sure you'll be fine, just keep going with your daily goals and you'll get there by August!

For me, as I'm not sure how long I have until my husband wakes up, my goal is to sort out some admin - return a couple of emails and start my agenda for the supervisor meeting I have later in the week. Exciting stuff!!

Have a good day all :-)

Morning everyone! (Oops, actually it isn't morning any more, never mind!)

I've been working offline this morning so this is my first time online today. I'm working on writing up my chapter by Monday. It's going very slowly, but I am making progress - hopefully once I finish the section I'm on it'll start to speed up, as I'll be putting in a lot of results and describing what I did rather than discussing the techniques.

Good luck to you other weekend workers!

Ooh I'm not sure if this is going to work as I can't see any replies to the one goal thread, but here goes anyway...!

Hope everyone had a good weekend, it was nice to have a few days away after last week's work fest! Back to the grindstone this morning though!

Today I am going to be mostly planning as I have significant re-structuring of three chapters to do, so I don't want to dive in without thinking it through first! Good luck everyone today (up)

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Hi everyone,

Hope all of you had a nice week end and here we are in the beginning of a very short week :-)

I was working through the long week end except for Monday when I went totally blank!! I managed to finish 3 sections of chapter 2 and 733 words into introduction. Sorry, I have been working offline so didn't post here :-(

BusyBee - I am technically closer to the end but I don't feel like I am that close when I think about the mound of things left to do. I hope you got your admin sorted and relaxed over the week end!

Lindalou - Hi, I am here! How are you? It is good you had time off after a long week of hard work!! Good luck with your restructuring (up)

Batfink - How did your writing go? I hope you managed to take some time off now and then.

Here is my first goal: Complete the final section of chapter 2.

Have a wonderful productive week everyone!

Hi Espresso,

Good luck with your goals today, don't worry if you have an off day, at the end of the day we all need a break from time to time!

I'm doing ok today thank you, just catching up with a bit of washing before I settle down to work properly, we've had family staying with us this weekend (impromptu!) so I have a bit of a full washing basket, overflowing into the kitchen...! Hence it needs to be done!

Hope you are ok and have a good day!

Lindalou - Oh dear! That sounds like an awful lot of work and good luck with that. I am sure you have got it done already :-)

I totally agree on your point to have breaks from time to time. I just have to make sure I go away from my computer and not sit and stare at it for hours doing nothing!

So, I have written 1462 words for now, have one more subsection to complete and also will have to draw some figures and include some plots. I am back after lunch and got to get going!

I have completed chapter 2 (1566 words today) and also wrote the abstract (400 words). I still have to put in figures and plots which I will do another day. I am feeling very good for getting these done despite the fact that they might be total cr*p!!!

I hope everyone is having a good day and have a nice evening people!! :-)

Morning all, I seem to be able to read posts today!

Sounds like you had a great writing and restructuring day yesterday, well done! I was at uni yesterday so I've come back to a desk full of admin type tasks. We're also moving soon so I have a load of stuff to sort for that too, not fun! And to top it all off, sup is phoning me for a supervision later, eugh!

Goal 1- put music onto ereader (hmm, not that important but nevermind!)
Goal 2- get ebooks
Goal 3- go through work from yesterday
Goal 4- edit presentation
Goal 5- go to post office
Goal 6- read everything written for chapter 8 so far

So that should keep me busy for a while!

Hi everyone,

Good Morning! I am still not able to read any other posts here. I hope everyone is doing ok. Here are my goals for today:

1. Write 1000 words in introduction chapter.
2. Troubleshoot code installation.
2. Email the IT person.

Have a good day! (up)

Hello everyone,

Hope you are all well today and working hard :-) I seem to be able to access the forum properly today again too which is good!

I'm still working on my chapter, my main goal today is to get the new structure set out properly so I can get the majority of the re-writing done tomorrow and Monday. This is going to be my life for the next 6 months! Ho hum, best get on then...!

Have a great day (up)

Hi Morning all!!

Yesterday, I managed to get half of goals 1 and 2 done. How did it go for everyone? I am going to set only one goal for today which will be to get 1000 words written in the introduction chapter.

Have a good day!!!

Hi all,

I had a good day yesterday, got everything done except goal 6. Also had a productive meeting with my supervisor, but the pressure is on now so I need to alter my plan for the next few weeks!

Goal 1- sort ereader
Goal 2- edit findings chapter
Goal 3- nip to supermarket
Goal 4- read through chapter 8
Goal 5- start planning journal article
Goal 6- gym

Another busy day, eugh!

Morning all,

Sounds like you had good days yesterday - I had a good ish sort of day but I have a lot more to do than I originally thought which is never good! The scary thing is, I didn't think the chapters I'm working on now were that bad, but they need a LOT of restructuring and re-writing in places! Everything is so jumbled and all over the place :-(

What's worse is, I have two weeks left after today to sort my analysis chapters out, then I have to re-work another chapter which is by far the weakest I have written and will need substantial amendments! But I just need to keep chipping away!

So today I'm just going to carry on with where I left off yesterday, re-structure, re-work, re-write!

Have a good day everyone (up)

Morning all,

Sounds like you are all making good progress...

Today, I'm working on a complicated bit of a chapter that is all jumbled up! I know what I want to say but the sections all intersect so much it's hard to find a way to split them into sub-sections. So I'm going to spend the morning planning it out and then have a crack at writing it this afternoon.

Hope you all have productive days!

:-)

Hi,

Busybee, it sounds like you and I are having similar problems! But I am pleased to report that I have finished amending one of my analysis chapters so it is a bit more coherent now! I'm going to leave it alone for a few days now and start working on another chapter this afternoon, after I've had some lunch.

Hope you're having a good day!