right I've put my hubs in front of the cricket, he seems like he will be settled for a few hours :p He has the week off work this week, so I need for him to realise I can't sit next to him ALL week watching films.

Goal 1: Run ANCOVA and write up.

made it into the office -eerily quiet - I think there's only one other person in the building!
Goal 1: finish sorting out slides
Goal 2: practise what I'll say in my head til it's pretty much memorised

Hey all. I'm a slight little bit tipsy but thought I'd pop in and say - yay! Passed my first year viva and have now officially progressed from MPhil to PhD. Yay! The viva was horrible even with the examiner being lovely and friendly and inviting me back to visit for a cup of bad coffee any time (is it easier if they're nasty people or is that just an impression...?) So now I'm very drunk and not working for a few days. But it cheered me that my examiner thought I was working hard and - in her words - was 'clearly aiming to get somewhere fast' - so I thought I'd share that. Because here we all seem to be serious about our PhDs, and we all seem to work to a similar level of, well, over-workingness (even where we're stressing about how lazy we're being), so I thought good news about one of us being praised would encourage all of us! My examiner and the one of my supervisors who attended my viva were both really happy with my work ('excellent' and 'wonderful' were the adjectives) and I figure if that's true for me it's double for people on here who I know work way harder than me. So. go us, and I'm delighted to have passed!!

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Goals for today:
- finish intorduction
- send to sup
- have a look at results chap/article 4

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At last my parents in law left my house  after 2 months, it was really the worst time in my life, no study at all, travel travel travel and no sleeping, even I could not stay a long time in the bath without hearing my mother in law's silly comments. Thank God at last I can back to my study and my forum. Hope I'll be motivated tomorrow to start the most important period in my life.

All three goals done. Woohoo!

Now on to the next thing...

Goals for the next 1.5 hours - 1. practice presentation 4 times, 2. write a clear set of notes

I'm very pleased for you Emaa!

I had last week basically written off because of parents visit. THis week hubs has taken a week off work, so I've run one anova analysis, but spent the rest of the time writing job applications and going round town with him. I don't feel too guilty about this though because we needed some down-time together.

Today he has decided to make me a cake (up) So hopefully I will get that soon. In the meantime..

Goal 1: Run t-tests and write up.

Today's progress: nothing, not a jot. I've sat at my laptop but not done any work. Not to sound like a prima donna but I've just not been in the mood, darling. A low motivation day. If this was a proper full time job, I'd have been sacked by now. Goal for today: try to salvage something, anything, so the day is not a complete write-off.

I doubt it Wal, my hubs does barely anything at work and they think he's great!

I have got a job interview come through - which is good but scary and can feel the butterflies in my stomach already :-(

need to get on with analysis!

I've done very little of actual worth today...I've spent the whole afternoon trying to figure out how I did something, initially thinking I'd made a rather large mistake in my paper, which is published so no changing that (still think it's wrong actually), then in trying to sort that I though I'd done a whole section of analysis wrong, including writing the wrong results in my epic chapter, spent ages redoing it, figured out my sup had told me the wrong way, re did it the right way and found out I had actually discovered his mistake initially, and had done the stuff properly. So I redid everything this afternoon, causing myself much stress, for nothing really...

Top tip - write down everything you do and why, especially if you have decided not to do something your sup told you to do!!

SO now I need to go back and figure out if my initial mistake is really a mistake and find out how to fix it...joy!

ah-ha....it seems there is a minor mistake in the paper, which is what my sup told me to do. I can fix it by just changing the units in the thesis chapter, hopefully they'll not notice. However, I had done it the right way before he told me to do it this way...sometimes, I really wish I'd never ever met the man, like about 90% of the time I wish this...anywhoo, back to fixing stuff.

That's it! Today's a write off! I'm going to retire for the evening and watch Phil smoke a crack pipe on Eastenders. If I work on Saturday and Sunday I can make up for it.

ok, I'm signing in here today cos I have to wade through a whole pile of data for my last experimental chapter and I'm dreading it. So please all of you hold me accountable if I don't get enough done today...

Woke up with a dizzy head which isn't the best start either, just so very tired lately. Anywhoo...
Goal 1: methods section
Goal 2: find out how to convert my results
Goal 3: add it into the big data table
Goal 4: do the stats

Hope everyone has a nice Saturday!