Thanks Armendaf that's really nice to hear! yes i havent finished, but i am hoping i can get the chapter finished by dinner time around 7pm!! hopefully before then, that would be nice. but im glad i went to bed, as im feeling refreshed now. its amazing when your tired and sleepy, you just have absolutely no motivation at all. im fine now. slept for 6 hours and 40 mins. very spooky today again i woke up at 12.40, even though the alarm was ringing since 11am, but kept hitting the snooze button every 10 minutes!!

okay time to get cracking:
my aims: finish chapter 1 introduction:-s

Good luck with chapter 3 Armendaf. and i am impressed by you and Ruby how you write such detailed arguments, it must be harder in the humanties i reckon.

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Thanks Armendaf, you put a smile on my face - was feeling sick. but i will push through it. we're soldiers, grrrrrr (battle face) no pain no gain!

i needed that burst of encouragement from ya, thanks matey :-)

okay here goes, im lying down now, feeling abit nautious but hoping it will pass. i just really want to get the introduction chapter done tonight!!!:-s just gotta do it section by section.

you're doing great! well done you. 3am is good if you can work till then. i've lost the motivation and will to carry on! but i found a nice article that clearly explains what ive been trying to write about for the past 2 hours! so everything i've written seems really crap now, so going to rewrite it again, and then one section will be done! okay giving myself 30 minutes to get it done. i really dont want to though, i just want to go to bed and forget that i have to write a thesis! :-s

thanks ProcrastiPro, nice to have company on the graveyard shift!! i just splashed my face with cold water to wake myself up! i'm awake now. so far have written 242 words. lol which seem like peanuts

*looks around* how you all holding up?
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okay my hourly update: total words written in the hour, 242 words. half done section 1, probably need another 30 minutes. and then i must move onto the next section. being strict with myself now!
will report back when i have finished my 1st section.

i just went to wash my face with cold water and brushed my teeth, to wake myself up. apparently brushing your teeth and washing your face with cold water wakes you up, something to do with the minty flavour lol. i think at around 3.30am, i will have another cup of coffee, i never drink coffee, so the caffiene works for me. i was wondering why earlier on my heart was palpitating! then realised it was cause i drank a cup of coffee.

okay back to writing *sets egg timer for 30mins*

Armendaf, you still up? hows it going? Pari you up too?

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lol Ruby, yah the pizza guy was hilarious, but i felt so sorry for him when the judges said no, his face! poor thing bless him, my heart went out for him.

have a good night sleep! and on page 21 already, great progress well done!

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Armendaf, i am so happy to have you on board the train to deadsville!! we will keep each other up *hands Armendaf a cup of coffee*

yap you're right, lets get ready and fight this (battle face) grrrrr.

i havent done any writing yet, took a longish break ooops and sorted out stuff for my intro chapter. now i have to write my introduction chapter for my thesis. i am gonna do as much as i can. my deadline is 6am sunday! if i start to feel sleepy, i will make some coffee. and wash my face and stand outside in the garden to wake myself up.

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Pari, your message gave me the much needed burst of enthusiasm, thats a good idea, i will act as if i like writing my thesis!

okay folks time to get cracking!!!

i have about 7 or so sections to cover. some of them are half done, some are empty. time to cheat and use lots of review articles muwahhahahahaha will worry about reading the original articles for viva prep.

okay first aim:

1. section 1: clonality theory of cancer. deadline 1.15am. *Starts egg timer* will report back in the hour and confess how many words i have written and whether it is done or not.

me too! i have to write my entire introduction chapter for my thesis. eeeeeeeeeeeeeek
my deadline is 6am sunday!

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Ruby, how funny was xfactors lol!!


although i always shed a tear for the ones that really bomb at the auditions their poor little faces when they get ripped, really breaks my heart!!! i missed so many of the episodes, but itv has catch up! hurrah!! i can watch some of them during my breaks muwahahahha
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okay xfactor is finished, i missed most of it, but saw x-tra factor. now i better get cracking on the introduction chapter. i'm clocked in for the whole night! who's with me ??

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http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=47 was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks Pari!! :-) :-)

when are you going to finish writing your thesis... *SMACK*

and Dull hypothesis LOL! love it. thanks Pari, that really cracked me up :-)

Hi Ruby :) I agree it's so nice having you guys for company today. great that you're going to be around for the evening/night shift! :-)

the best thing about xfactor are the auditions, they are hilarious!
true, i would rather be working on my laptop then being humiliated in public lol.

your right Ruby, the nearer you get to submission, the more you think your entire thesis is complete trite and in my case, resembles a middle school one week assignment lol. i dont know why i have such a distorted view. i wont be at all suprised if my supervisors (should they even look at it) will say, "its all wrong and rubbish and not detailed enough. go and do it all over again, oh you have to submit by next week ? well then you better figure out a way to stop time ontop of rewriting your entire thesis "

but yah thats exactly what i say to myself, just submit the damn thing and then hope the examiners give me major or minor corrections to do, and wont outright fail me, or tell me i can only submit for a mphil. but thats for the future to worry about.... as JB said, the best thesis is a done thesis and it will never be perfect. i dont even think my thesis is good. its probably well below average borderline failure. i love how optimisitic i am about my work lol.

but its *something* to show for my hard work. and no matter if i fail or pass, i know in my heart i tried my best and that was the best i could do. i really did try my best and this is what i came up with.. if its all wrong then well, hopefully i might get a second chance to improve on it and correct it. but for now. i just gotta keep looking at getting it *done*! as to the best of my knowledge and ability.

well i just came back from a little break, freshened up abit, walked in the garden for abit. and now i am drowning in papers, and am about to start work on the introduction chapter. it's going to be a longgggggggg night, i have to get it done by end of tonight!

okay going to work non stop until 7pm. that's one hour.
here it goes ! (battle face) :-s

Hi Armendaf, so nice to hear from you! thanks for your encouragement, hopefully *fingers crossed* and you're so right, sleep is sooooooooooooo healing!!!

i totally get what you mean about having everything infront of you but still mustering the motivation to just write it. i am like that too, i have everything infront of me, i just have to put it together, and still i sit there thinking, oh its too much, oh i cant be bothered. and just sit there, and lol the only thing that worked for me is having a headmistress voice in my head saying, "sit there and DO IT! do not even think about getting up from that chair until it's done. and i dont care if you're bored, write the damn thing!" the headmistress in my head is a biatch, but when i get it done, its a great feeling of accomplishment. thats the only thing thats motivating me, being able to tick off a chapter, and seeing the ticks on my wall planner next to each chapter. lol

lol i think i might be going abit loony. but hey whatever gets the job done !
Armendaf, dont worry about slow writing, as long as you keep at it, thats all that matters. you will get there! just get as much as you can done. no need to write a pultzer prized piece at this stage. i know i spelt it wrong, cant be arsed to check the correct spelling. and rant away my friend, that's what this forum is for!

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Thank God for you people today, that's all i am going to say, as saturday can be sooooooooo quiet on the forums, but knowing you all are working away, is really helping me!! i agree Ruby, the weather is so lovely!!!! drats! but small sacrifice today, will pay off in the long run!

Ruby, i love the multitude of battle faces in your message lol.

i totally know what you mean about getting bored , i just finished chapter 7 (yah!!!) but as i was writing it, i was thinking, this is probably rubbish - but its done and that is all that matters, i will read through it again later once ive finished all the chapters, and maybe add a list of future experiments in bullet point, i once saw a thesis that had that. right now, i cant think of any! they are all just glazed suggestions, nothing specific..so maybe once my other chapters are done, my brain will unstress and some ideas might arise.

Ruby, dont worry about gobedly gook - i think what its important is to get it written in whatever shape and form!, and then improve on it later. its always easier to improve on something.

i'm having dinner at 7pm. so i'm working till then too. but going to take a little break now, before starting chapter 1 introduction.

keep going Ruby, you're doing well!! i admire you working on a saturday without a looming deadline over your head... and maybe you can take a little break and stand in the garden and enjoy the weather for abit?

thanks for saying that its perfectly normal to feel sick staying up that late, i felt i was being a weak solider lol.