I've done a third of my chapter rewrite so far, and now a friend has texted to say meet her at the pub, and I need a break... but that means leaving campus in less than half an hour to get the train back. Hmm. I think I need the break, so I'm prescribing myself an evening off and worrying about finishing the chapter tomorrow. I mean - my supervisors wanted me to email it today, but they're not likely to actually want to read it on a Saturday, are they? It'll be fine!!

Hope everyone else has plans for relaxation and recharging the batteries!

No they won't read it today, they're probably not even in the office! Go and have a drink and have a break! I'm calling it a day now as I've achieved everything I wanted to today. Have a good weekend everyone :-)

Well done all for being such productive busy bees!
Incorporate some theory into one of my categories in my qual chapter - Done
Write summaries for three of my subcategories - Done
Make a start on tidying up my qualitative discussion chapter - Not so much, but I've had some wine and now I'm sleepy.



Goal for tomorrow:
Finalise Chapter 6
(read a few papers, maybe add some theory about control/self efficacy/self determination theory, and then tidy it up)

Hi everyone!

Batfink - That's wonderful! I am very pleased for you (gift)

Lindalou - You have been doing great with your corrections :-) Keep it up!

Clementine - Well done on achieving your goals and good luck for today (up)

I had a bad day yesterday, I started with the conclusions chapter, was trying to make the corrections but I didn't know where to start or how to write it. I then went on to the introduction chapter and edited most of it, just need to do a final polish. But somehow I am feeling very very tired physically and mentally. I am supposed to be working today, but I am still in the bed hiding in my room not wanting to face the real world outside! Sorry for the rant people. I am going to gather myself up and go and have a shower, then go to work. Hopefully I will feel better.

Bounces in, dances around the thread, delerious....

I just sent the first draft of my thesis off to my supervisors. Woo!!! Okay, it's only half written, and I still have lots of analysis to do, and it will all need a lot of rewriting, but still - that's 35,000 words of PhD thumping down onto my supervisors' desks! And if that's what 35,000 words look like, the full 80-odd thousand words don't seem nearly as difficult.

Now I'm going to lie down, and maybe think about pizza for tea, and then get ready to travel to my week-long conference in the morning.

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Well done Batfink! Woop woop woop! Mmmmmm pizza.

Today has been rubbish for me, feel like I've run out of steam! Need to reset my brain and try and make some progress before I go to bed. Having one of those days where I'm sick of my topic, so it's hard!

**edit**
Goal for tomorrow:
Finalise Chapter 6
(read a few papers, maybe add some theory about control/self efficacy/self determination theory, and then tidy it up)

Lets hope I don't need to copy and paste that again tomorrow night...

Hello everyone!

Morning!

Oh wow!!! That's great, Batfink. I felt the same way when I sent off the first draft of all my chapters couple of weeks back :-)

Clementine, I hope you managed to finish you chapter and how are you feeling today?

I managed to start early today too, worked a bit yesterday but not much over the week end though. I have completed the second draft of my introduction chapter including primary supervisors comments and email him and my secondary supervisor (haven't got corrections back from him yet) just now. I have edit bits of the conclusions chapter which I think I will keep for later when I have the second draft of all the chapters ready.

Goal 1 - Finalise the second draft of chapter 1 and email it to supervisors - DONE.

Goal 2 - Put in the results of the simulations together.

I will finish goal 2 and move on the the rest. Have a productive day and week ahead everyone! (up)

How is it going for everyone? I have now completed the listed goals. So, I am going to start couple of other things which I can hopefully get done today.
Goal 1 - Finalise the second draft of chapter 1 and email it to supervisors - DONE.
Goal 2 - Put in the results of the simulations together - DONE.
Goal 3 - Troubleshoot and launch new simulations - DONE.
Goal 4 - Verify results of simulations.
Goal 5 - Redraw some plots of chapter 4.

Phewwww!!!! I am done with all of my goals.

Goal 4 - Verify results of simulations - DONE.
Goal 5 - Redraw some plots of chapter 4 - DONE.

I am off to home, have a bus to catch in 15 min, got to cook, eat, watch some tele and get on with goals 6-8 hopefully :-)

Goal 6 - Make notes for tomorrow's meeting with primary supervisor.
Goal 7 - Read an article that I printed.
Goal 8 - Find out values of a model to discuss with supervisor tomorrow.
Hope everyone had a good day. Catch you all tomorrow :-)

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Mmmm...It seems like no one is around today. I have been having issues accessing this site, I don't know if it was just me. I couldn't do the final list of things of yesterday as I was totally knackered. I did those this morning. Anyway I have done these so far:

Goal 1 - Make notes for today's meeting with primary supervisor - DONE.
Goal 2 - Read an article that I printed - DONE.
Goal 3 - Find out values of a model to discuss with supervisor tomorrow - DONE.
Goal 4 - Meet supervisor - DONE.
Goal 5 - Check simulations - DONE.

I had a good discussion with my supervisor, we spoke about some of the assumptions we have and about what we know and what we don't. It was quite interesting. I have quite some time before I leave home, so will be doing the following now:

Goal 6 - Print course schedule (I am going on a course tomorrow for 4 days which will be helpful for my career).
Goal 7 - Find bus route to the course venue.
Goal 8 - Sort the results which I got yesterday.
Goal 9 - Replot some graphs of Chapter 4.

Espresso, you are far too productive!! well done though!

my goal today, is to get this final bloody empirical chapter done so i can get my Discussion chapter finished by the end of the week.

unfortunately the following things exist which are making the above goal so hard to attain!!
1. Facebook
2. Twitter (which i have finally got my head around and am now obsessed with)
3. YouTube clips of Peter Serafinowicz's 'Look Around You'. I highly recommend you have a look at this if you need a laugh/break. A good eg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_TgM0pCDvI

ARGGHHHH! i don't think today is turning out to be one of my better one's.....

Hi Snelison, I am glad to hear from you :-) Oh dear! I know what exactly you mean by getting distracted by mere beings like 'fb', 'twitter', and 'youtube'. I don't use twitter though. I hate the 'related links' option of 'youtube', one can spend hours watching rubbish! I hope your writing is going on well. I wish I was as productive since the start, looking back the number of days I spent producing nothing but entropy is far more than the number of productive days. In all these years I have learnt 'how not to do research' rather than 'how to do research' ;-)

Goal 6 - Print course schedule (I am going on a course tomorrow for 4 days which will be helpful for my career) - DONE.
Goal 7 - Find bus route to the course venue -DONE.
Goal 8 - Sort the results which I got yesterday - NOT DONE (will do it hopefully tomorrow).
Goal 9 - Replot some graphs of Chapter 4 - DONE (90%).
Goal 10 - Go for a walk - DONE :-)

I am happy with my achievements for today, I could have done more (slacked for an hour or so). I am winding up for today, have a good night everyone!

flamin' eck', you're a DYNAMO Espresso!!

i just about managed my goal for yesterday, but boy, it was tough!

today....get at least half of may Discussion Chapter written. about 2500 words....

Eye of the Tiger!!! GRRRR!!! :-)

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Hi all, Morning!

I had a relaxed start this morning after a long time (@ 9.30 am) :-) What a beautiful day today! (robin) Today's goals:

Goal 1 - Check simulations (they are still running) - DONE.
Goal 2 - Find out the information which an ex-colleague wants me to retrieve.
Goal 3 - Troubleshoot new code installation.
Goal 4 - Attend the course (13:30-17:00).

I will be back at my office to do some work after the course. Have a nice day everyone!

P.S: Snelison, I watched the youtube video which you posted, its hilariously brilliant! 8-)

Hello all,

I gave up trying to access the site yesterday as it was down my end! Well done Batfink for handing in your thesis so far, I'm not far off doing the same on Friday!

I had to come on and share that I've just for the first time ever created a contents page that actually WORKS! It's a big first for me (I know most people probably already know how to do it but I am very excited that I've just done it!)

Onwards and upwards now, lots more to do! Hope you're all having a good day! (up)