LadyD Bakuvia and Tractorgirl, thanks so much for your supportive and encouraging messages! and for the advice.

i will respond in detail later but wanted to say a big thank you to each one of you!

thanks tractorgirl!!!

hello folks!

okay my aims for today:

1. chapter 2 methods. (basic 1st draft)
2. chapter 7 discussion (basic 1st draft)
3. final corrections: chapter 3
4. final corrections: chapter 4

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5. chapter 6: methods
6. chapter 6: results

ok way too tired. have....no .... more... will to carry on.. lol

i just dumped a bunch of stuff for the methods section. will do a brief sketch of methods chapter later on today. going to bed now.

feeling sleepy now, coke has finished and its effects lol. but i must press on and try to get a rough sketch of the methods done. (aim 3)

aim 2 completed, hurrah! chapter 1 introduction.

although it is very far from perfect or completed, but it's the best i can do for the monday deadline. it needs critical analysis of the literture. and has missing sections. but at least it's *something* about 8,000 words. although the final version i am going to chop and change it drastically. it'll do for now.

Aim 1 completed, hurrah!

chapter 5 is all done now, complete with introduction. discussion is very sketchy though, needs alot more work. but it will do for now.

i am all wired from drinking coca cola. it pays to not be addicted to caffeine so when i do drink coke. i am all buzzed. hehe.

onwards, onto chapter 1 introduction now.

hey you guys! thanks for the advice and support!! yep will do just that.

and once i submit. i am planning on taking a couple of days off. then i will get back to it. i know you said not to stop after i submit. but i would like to take 2 days off to rest and like JB says, you should "reward" yourself. and then start again next weds. plus going to a concert next tuesday. so i am working full time until monday, email the sup on monday morning. and then take monday and tuesday off. and then start work again on my thesis on weds.

hey guys!! thanks for the encouraging words I appreciate that.

my pc got fixed! yeh!! plus my friend fixed my printer, so i can print now too ! yeh!!

it's nice to be back on the desktop computer.

well it's a very late start today! will be burning the midnight oil tonight.

my aims for tonight are:

1. chapter 5 introduction section
2. chapter 1 introduction
3. chapter 2 methods
4. chapter 7 discussion.

i am going to do as much as i can for the above chapters. and then tommorow work on chapter 6 my last remaining chapter.

lesson from Joan Bolker, set very generous deadlines for yourself in the beginning!!

the qmul graduate tutor set the deadline. i had told him about a month ago, that i myself was planning on having first draft completed by 7th of july (little did i know how long it was actually going to take!) so he then said, okay well i expect my students to give me a solid draft, and then i decide to sign the entry forms. so i am going to email your sup and tell him you will have a first draft completed by early july. and i was like, oh ok!

so my sup is expecting a first draft, and then based on that -he will agree to sign the entry forms.

it was like a challenge to see if i could do it. but now thinking about it, it was unrealistic lol. i told my qmul graduate tutor, i had rough drafts, but boy did i not realise how long it was going to take to transfer the rough drafts to final polished versions. and some chapters i had no rough drafts and had to write from scratch.

awwww thanks miss spacey that's so nice of you to say. thank you i really appreciate that. that does make me feel better

you're right about not swapping chapters. that is very true, it will certainly make me go loopy. okay good idea. i will complete one chapter and then move onto the next. i will just have to do a very basic draft. and leave most sections as "pending"

aim 1: introduction. half completed in final format. the other half is at a very sloppy zero draft format.

methods: not done
results: not done.

i'm tired, going to bed. will try to wake up early and start using the egg timer more strictly.

okay so i have

thursday
friday
saturday

i want to leave sunday for final proof reading and checks.

so 3 days: 4 chapters.
mathematically its impossible to meet the deadline.

hmmmm do i swap every hour ? and work on each chapter for one hour and then work on the next chapter and keep swapping?

any suggestions?

i am feeling tired, I think i will go to bed now.and wake up in the morning and try writing all the chapters simultaneously lol

oh and chapter 7 discussion : not done.

so what do i do?

right now, i am just sitting here, trying to work on chapter 6. but i can't cause i am stressing about my monday deadline.

i'm writing it from scratch and its going to take ages to get a zero draft together. let alone a 1st draft and final draft completed.
and then i have all the other chapters to do aswell.

what shall i do?