Hi all :)

Haven't been here for a while now.

My task for today is to finish transcribing the interview. Gosh, it is taking forever!

Hi everyone!

I'm only just sitting down to work, for various reasons. Need to get a few tasks done today, but the main one is sending off my journal article- really hope I can do it!

Goal 1- sort conference stuff
Goal 2- edit journal article

Hi everyone,

Chococake, welcome back. Skig, nice to see you and your progress on the journal article. Take care and don't be too hash on yourself. Pregnancy is hard. Hope everyone is doing well!

I waked up pretty late this morning. After four consecutive days of intense working, I am both mentally tired and exhaustive. Yesterday is the worst day. I would like to do all kinds of other things: chores, exercises, reading unrelated materials, except working. I ended up walking in the park in the morning for two hours. Then worked several hours in the afternoon. Today is better than yesterday, especially after a long sleep.

I am actually happy because I worked through the combination of methods I need to try, and got a result, which is not a result I was hoping for, but I was expecting that. Most of the time, I cannot get the right results at the first place. I need to reexamine the work, look at the work from different aspects, then can get a reasonable results. This is the most hard, also interesting part of the work.

my goal today:
1. think about why the covariance matrix is s.p.d. itself. Is there anyway we can fix it?
2. what method does the code use to find the nearest matrix?
3. rewrite the technique notes in spiral way.

Thank you for the support!

I know I should take it easy as much as pos but I don't like being behind with stuff, even if the sole reason is because I've been working on the article and the conference. I feel I need to catch up before I start my mat leave but I know it won't happen as there isn't enough time to catch up with everything. It's so hard to be a perfectionist sometimes :p

Anyway, I really want to get my lit review edited before then though so I've been working on it today. I'm hoping that the bulk will be done by Friday and then I can move onto the next chapter. I've got another couple of bits to do now but I'm hoping I'll be done in an hour or so...

Hi everyone,

I'm back after an extremely long hiatus due to various reasons but I'm back now! Hope everyone is getting on ok and your work is going well. I'm now beginning the arduous task of amending the thesis, starting with Chapter 1. My goal for today is to make the changes suggested by an advisor.

Hope you're all having a good day!

Welcome back Lindalou! And Chococake too!

Hope everyone is making good progress today.

I've been swimming this morning and am feeling both invigorated and bloomin knackered, so we'll see how the day goes! My two tasks for the day are:
1.) Get a rough version of my conference presentation assembled
2.) Go through things suggested by my supervisor to prepare for Tuesday's job interview

Woohoo welcome back Linda! (up)(up)(up)

Hope everyone is getting along okay today. I didn't send my journal article off yesterday, but I'm actually glad I didn't as part of it needs editing! Not sure if I'll get round to it today either, but I'll try.

Goal 1- admin/emails etc
Goal 2- start editing journal article

Hi everyone,

Linda, welcome you back. Hope everyone has a productive mid-week day today.

It's going to be a busy day for me. Need to think about the 'already s.p.d. matrix', and other 'matrix fix up methodology' in the morning. I don't know if I can work those two problems out in two hours, but will try. Then driving to school to do some admin works. It will be an exhausting day.

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Hi Linda! Nice to have you back!

You all seemed to have had productive days!! I'm still working on my lit review. I finished earlier than planned as I was tired and thought I had all the info there only to remember I need to add a few more bits on the way home:-s a task for tomorrow now.

Morning all!

I have a million and one things to do today, but I finally have a whole day free to catch up!

Goal 1- add info from journal article into thesis
Goal 2- edit my journal article and submit (finally!)
Goal 3- put info from my journal article into thesis
Goal 4- sort page numbers in thesis
Goal 5- print thesis up to end of intro
Goal 6- edit intro
Goal 7- print lit review ready to edit tomorrow

That's quite a list, best get cracking!

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Thank you all, it's nice to be back! I'm starting work a little bit later than planned today as I had to take my hubby for a fasting blood test, he went a bit droopy at the prospect of being at the end of a needle!

It does look like you have a bit of a long to do list today Button, hope you get it all done! And I hope you're feeling ok Skig, I hate feeling tired! I'd make the most of any sleep you can get now though!

Today I'm just cracking on with corrections to Chapter 1, I didn't get them all finished yesterday as I have a bit of background reading to do. Hope everyone has productive days!

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Good luck with the corrections Linda!

I've blasted through goals 1-5, yippee! I haven't eaten though, so going to grab lunch and then crack on with editing my intro, how exciting (down)

Ooh well done Button, and hope your husband's okay Linda.

I started work late today because I had to go and get my hair cut this morning, and do some shopping while I was out, and then shout at the electric/gas suppliers for being idiots with my bill (I started out friendly but when they said 'oh sorry, we said it would take 28 days to sort and that was two months ago but it might take another 40 days' I got a lot more forceful - not that it did much good).

Anyway, I seem to be making very little progress on work. I did draft out my conference presentation yesterday so my main task for today is to add the missing info to that, tighten it up and rehearse it for timings. And to continue preparing for Tuesday's job interview.

Well done Button, and don't worry Batfink, it still sounds like you're being productive. Thanks for the well wishes for hubby, I'm sure he'll be ok, and use the blood test to get sympathy from me later! :p Good luck with your interview by the way!

I'm not doing too badly today, just working through my chapter steadily. Hopefully I'll get it finished by tomorrow!