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My goal for today is to finish another section of my discussion chapter so that by next week it might be finished at last! :-x

Afternoon everyone. I have spent the morning doing a few adminny bits and am struggling to concentrate now.

My next goal is to write the 'personal assessment' section for my panel report. Must focus..

omg its 12.30 - WHAT!? Where did the morning go!???

Right, I need to have lunch, get a massive caffeine hit and get back to it!

Hi everyone, just though I'd post on here to try and make myself do something. I think I may have some sort of heat exhaustion thing going on, the temp here is in the mid-high 30's for the past 5 days and I'm starting to really struggle with doing work. Feeling all floopy and impossible to concentrate on anything. Can't even have tea or coffee for caffeine as it's waaaay to hot - haven't even eaten really as it's too hot to eat, which is so not like me.

Anywhoo, goal 1 is to finish section 2 of my results.

wow where are you??

We've had biblical rain for AGES now. I nearly killed myself driving back from london last night - it was fog lights, 40mph the whole way :-(

I'd actually be happy with a bit of rain at the moment...I'm in the south of France with my boyf while I'm writing up, still as white as when I arrived a month and a half ago as I've not had any time to actually enjoy the sun and heat, just suffering inside when it's too hot. And it's been insane this past week. It's forecast to be 24 tomorrow and I'm so relieved!! I'd love a bit of snow actually....

my parents have just gone to france for 3 weeks after a manic summer for them, so I'm hoping its not pouring with rain for them!

Does sound nice though make the most of it!

Ah, sympathies algae, I used to spend summers out there and while it's gorgeous for a holiday, thesis weather it is not! Could you combine coolness with caffeine by making iced coffee? Tastes good and perks you up :-)

I am in the office and I suck, having achieved nothing (bar getting annoyed at R&D, yet again). So, today's goal.... fill gaps in this godforsaken chapter and don't leave the office until I've mailed it to poor sup!

Yes, sympathies, it must be really hard to concentrate in that kind of heat. I was quite glad this morning to wake up to filthy grey skies and rain, made it much easier to make myself sit at my desk and get on with some work!

First two goals achieved, now to try to answer the questions I've set myself.

Oh no Algaequeen, I hope you get a chance to enjoy the weather soon!

Right. My goal for today is to get together and submit my end of year report.

Morning all! Well I managed to get 12 tomatoes done yesterday, although a lot of it was fixing stuff I've done wrongly, sometimes I hate myself for stupid mistakes...
Today my goal is to get this results chapter finished. I will do it!!! Thanks for all the sympathies about the weather here :) Thankfully I'm working at home alone, I'd given up on wearing clothes altogether!! :$

Today though a storm is rolling in, it's cool and there's a lovely wind, and I'm even wearing a cardigan with my shorts! amazing! I have some coffee chilling in the fridge too Teek, good call!

Good luck everyone!

well I'm struggling this morning. My cat woke me up at 11pm (well I was reading), 3am and 5am to bring me different mice :-( he meeows around the house to tell you he's got 'a present' and won't stop until you go and get the blimmin thing, and at that point, the cat decides he wants to keep it and we play chase around the sofa/kitchen/hallway until I trick him with food and bag the mouse. :-s

So I'm tired. But I'm also trying to work out HOW to run my stats. The stats lecturer has left for the summer, my sup wouldn't know what SPSS is and there is no one I can ask :-( I've been trawling google for 2 hours now for an answer!

well I've found abook which explains all the stats I need to know - but it explains it in crazy equations, so will have to wait for hubs to help me through it.

In the meantime I'm going to hoover - so I don't have to tomorrow :-)

Eep I have my first conference presentation next week and I need to do the slides today. The paper was written and submitted about a month ago so I am hoping that it shouldn't be too much trouble to make the slides. There is an issue however (I 'm not sure how big of an issue it is?) in that the paper I submitted outlines what we plan to do during the course of my PhD and the associated project but since the paper was submitted some of the things we were going to do we may not be doing anymore. The thing that we most likely won't be doing was the main focus of the paper and is in the title. So I have a bit of a dilemma - do I just present the paper as written or do I admit that there is some doubt over what we will do? The problem is that I don't know for definite if we are/ are not going to do it yet. I did stress in the paper that a project was a work-in-progress.

Sorry for hijacking the thread - back to it.
Goal 1 - re-read paper

Not a good day - I was too anxious to get my slides done- they are half done from the last time I looked at them. I feel like I should be much better prepared by now. Is 3 days enough time to prepare slides, get to know the paper really well and practice the presentation? My stomach has butterflies and I can't concentrate so I am thinking of not even trying to work tonight and instead relaxing the my OH. That makes me feel like I'm being really lazy though. Oh and I am shopping with my mother in the morning to try find something to wear to the conference and the dinner so I probably won't be able to start working tomorrow until after lunch

Goal 1 -still not done:-(