Morning!

It's still not cleared so that's (down)

I'm beyond stressing about it now!

Well done on doing all that reading yesterday Batfink, I can't remember the last time I sat down and just read/carried out lit searches for a day, it's really valuable time isn't it!

Today I'm just getting on with my chapter, I do have an unrealistic goal in mind so I won't set that for myself here! I'll break it down into smaller chunks:

Goal 1: Be finished with section 2 by lunchtime
Goal 2: Make some additions to section 1 this afternoon

Have a good day everyone! :-)

Sounds like a plan! I am not looking forward to being in your shoes Delta, I hate applying for jobs! Wishing you lots and lots of luck!

I made it, hurrah! Now I'm going to have a longer break as quite frankly, I deserve it after the blinking day I've had! Fingers crossed tomorrow is a better day and the whole money thing gets sorted out. I will take your advice though Button, if the money hasn't cleared in the morning I'll ring the hotel again and get it in writing. I might ring the bank too just to confirm it's definitely on the move tomorrow. Otherwise we'll run into problems later on! Luckily the rent had already gone out before this happened, phew! Thank you for listening to me freak out today!

Anyway, good work today Button and Batfink, see you tomorrow!

aaw sock munching puppy! cute! good work both, you're motoring through today! I'm going to try and get to 4,500 today before I call it quits, but as I've been working since 7.30 this morning again my attention is starting to wander...! must... stay.... focused!

Thanks! I'm trying but today it feels like pushing a very big heavy rock up a very steep and slippery slope!

Your situation sounds very weird. I'd be asking for clarification if I were you. It kind of puts you off a bit, my partner has had emails addressed to someone else from a HR department before and it's not clear if they were declining his application or someone else's! Grr.

Oh dear, can you creep round her or will she wake up as soon as you go down?! I keep forgetting it's easter this weekend, it's crept up out of nowhere so I only really have 2 days left to work this week! Where is the time going?! It's scary!

Has anyone got any snow today? It's looking cloudy and cold outside but I don't think we're going to get any snow. It's a bit weird how it's gone from spring/summer back to winter in a matter of hours! brrr!

Ok I may have underestimated how hungry I actually am, it's been horrible being ill as it's been a struggle to know if I'm hungry or feeling sick over the last week! But I am definitely hungry now so I'm going to have some lunch!

I'm just panicking, yes it was a lot of money, enough to cover 9 people staying at their 5* hotel! :$ I'll give it until tomorrow morning and then I'll ring the hotel asking them to confirm in writing, that's a really good idea Button!

Well done with getting your goals done! I'm going to keep going until 2pm then have a longer break for lunch, although I may change my mind if I start to get ridiculously hungry before then!

I'm doing my best not to stress but I'm going back to my bank account every so often and it still looks like the money is missing - how long do you think it will take for them to refund me? I suppose it'll take a few days to clear...

I'm feeling a bit more cheerful about the work now, I've managed to cut all the rubbish from the chapter and I'm now just focusing on adding bulk so I'm actually managing to increase the word count rather than reduce it! It's funny cos I started with 9,000 words and now I'm down to 3,500!

Well done for getting your first 2 goals done Button, and reading sounds like a plan Batfink! I find transcribing at home much easier, less interruptions! You're lucky you've got a footpedal, I had to do mine with a piece of software where I used the keyboard, I kept forgetting which keys were pause and rewind though! It was so funny listening back to myself, especially on mega slow!

Thanks Button, I needed to take a deep breath and calm down! It's a theoretical framework chapter which I penned back in my first year and it's totally rubbish, I think I was expecting it to be a nice "easy" chapter to write before the wedding but I'm having to do a lot more work than I was anticipating! Luckily though I have a huge pile of references to work through so I'm just going through that now and adding to the content of the chapter. I'll focus on doing that this week then spend next week tidying it up into a logical story! I'll see how I get on - if I really can't get it done I'll ask for an extension or send them an unfinished chapter with a big sorry on it!

I've spoken to the bank now and they've identified the source, it was the hotel from my hen do double charging me, so I've spoken to them now and they've hopefully sorted it. It's not showing on my internet banking yet but I'll give them a few hours to update!

I've got a pile of editing mounting up to do, I'm like you Button, I hate going back and doing it! That will be my life after June though! Re-editing and re-drafting until Christmas if all goes to plan! :p

Sorry to hear that Delta, keep going (up)

Morning all!

I'm majorly stressing today - I promised my sups a new chapter for the end of April but I really only have 2 weeks to work on it because I'll be off for most of the last 2 weeks of April. It's based on a piece of work I did in my first year and I've ended up deleting most of it! I totally feel like I'm never going to get it done today :-( on top of that some money has gone missing from my bank account and I'm frantically trying to get it sorted! It is totally NOT GOOD! And breathe....!

Sounds like you've all had a good few days, I've not been online much as I had a tummy bug last week which totally wiped me out (thanks to my little nephew for that!) and I've lost even more time!

I'm feeling too stressed to set a goal today, but I would like to get a substantial amount of writing done today, so here goes!

I am a bit upset that my post has been taken out of context. I wasn't implying that I thought women should be treated in a different way. I think it's great that universities in Switzerland are offering support, I don't care if it's for married women, married men, unmarried people, PhD parents, PhD grandparents, pet owners, aliens, polar bears, whatever! I just think any kind of support, for anyone, from a university, is great!

p.s. I can't help but say, no-one gets upset about the PhD mums/PhD parents threads do they?! Why is this thread any different? I'm not trying to provoke, I am genuinely interested to hear your views.

I really didn't think about it on that level, but I can see why people would disagree with it on the basis that you may feel singled out/excluded. However we can't deny the fact that women have a complex role in society where we're under pressure in terms of both our career potential, starting a family and then in the majority of cases having to look after a child, a home and juggle a career too. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to recognise that. Please let's not start a debate about feminism, equity etc because I am fully supportive of women being equal in society, but we arguably have more pressure on us than our male counterparts in terms of our career potential IF we make the decision to have children. Why is it wrong to recognise that? I don't think Emaa's intention was to say that women in Switzerland are "singled out", I think it's just recognised that we have a certain amount of pressure on us. I also recognise the fact that many women make the choice not to have children and I am totally supportive of that too. In fact, if anyone has successfully managed to juggle a career in academia and being a mother then I would love to hear from you!

Please let's not all take this so seriously!
8-)