okay cool, See you on monday Anthropologa bright and shiny!
we're we all must report to duty! hehe.

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Okay peeps.

Everyone part of the A club:

please report your aims, on monday morning (aka whenever you stumble to your computer)

and list your aim(s)for the day.

At the end of your working day. Please state exactly what you accomplished, complete honest truth!

okay see you all tommorow morning

hey Gracie!! awww that is so nice to hear that my diary has helped you thank you for sharing that with me. :)

please feel free to post either in my diary or here... or both if you like! hehe

we have almost the same deadline!

the accountability idea in this thread is all Anthropolaga's idea

wicked egg timer website!!

ever since i read about it in joan bolkers book i actually have a egg timer on my desk. it always makes me jump when it rings lol

this website one is handy aswell as you can have multiple tasks and deadlines, FANTASTIC! love it

thanks for posting about it

okay great!!! shall we start tommorow then?



how about tommorow morning, whenever we get up, to put down our personal aims, and then at the end of the day (midnight for me personally) confess exactly what we did.

this is going to be fun. hehe

does that sound okay?

okay it's midnight, which means time to clock out.

still working on my thesis map. it's actually good, cause it's helping me to organise.

so far...

thesis map:

total words so far = 2048 words.

total pages so far = 17 pages.

hmm i might be going a little bit overboard. but my sup did say he wanted a detailed thesis map, summarising each section and what results i want to put in. so i've put little minuature pics of results, to make it easier to "visualise" hence why the so many pages bit.

i will probably get into trouble for going over the top. and giving them too much of a huge map to go through, and wasting their time. but oh well.
i will try not to make it too long.

*clocks out*

Thanks Omega monkey
for your kind and supportive message. it means alot to me

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Thanks cakegirl

yah you're right, i think i just had to get it out and start afresh.

you're so right about not pushing myself too hard , because it affects the next day. you're so sweet

thanks for your encouraging words!!

hehe cute. that does make sense

erm what does ABD stand for?

i agree with those that say if you earned the title of Dr, then use it till your hearts content, no need to be modest. you worked hard for the doctorate, and those people who feel uncomfortable if you use the Dr title, that's their problem.

sounds good!!

how about just doing it here?

me and jojo have a writing up diary, where we report at the end of the day exactly what we accomplished.

maybe in THIS thread. we can have a sort of

THINGS TO ACCOMPLISH TODAY (aims today)

and at the start of the day, everyone puts down their AIMS.

and then at the end of the day (whatever time they finish their work)
they log on and state exactly what they did in accomplishing specific aim they had stated in the beginning.

what do you think?

i tend to check this forum, during my 5min breaks during the day. acts as motivation and encouragement to get back to working

if you prefer msn, that's fine too. or email.
just a suggestion. but your the boss, whatever you decide, i will go along with it.

hello! another fan and reader of the Joan Bolker book!! hurrah!!! I like you already :)

where do i sign up!

and you're so right about not obsessing about it being perfect and polished.

absolutely i love that line aswell, a good dissertation is a done one.

thanks so much for all your advice!

i can volunteer to be your 'partner in crime' if you like. what say you?

my deadline is to finish my thesis map by tommorow morning.

i gotta do a thesis map detailing:
7 chapters.

at the moment i am still doing the introduction ! i think i am going over the top.

it has to be perfect. because based on this thesis map, he will decide whether to sign my examination entry forms and arrange examiners for me or not. if he doesnt let me submit, i am buggered cause the uni will terminate my registration in september if i dont submit my thesis.

i'm thinking positive though . and just focusing on making it the best thesis map i can.

but i should start on the results sections soon!

okay deadline 5pm, and then i should move on to the results section, as they are the trickier bits. (starts egg timer)

Thanks so much bovp2000!

sillybilly, that is such a cute anectode about your bf calling you billy. that is so sweet!

i am part of the "september club", writing up my phd thesis to submit in september.

my phd is in biology (cancer research).

after i am done in my phd, i want to take a sebatical for a year and study on my own just for fun, including subjects like psychology.