Good morning all! I'm a bit later today as my fiance is working from home too and we had a leisurely breakfast together!

As I've worked pretty hard this week I'm going to have a slightly easier day today. I'm going to work on my introduction and contextual chapters today as my brain is tired and I have drafts worked up already!

Aah I'm so jealous Button! Puppy love! I will work on my fiance after we're married, hehe! ;-) and well done on your presentation yesterday, that is fab news! (up)

Good luck with the work today everyone!

Totally not wrong at all, sometimes we all need a few hours off! I started sifting through a chapter this afternoon but I wasn't really getting anywhere so had a break instead! I have some of my best ideas when I'm away from my desk anyway, and I return refreshed & ready to crack on (most days anyway! Not today though!)

Hope you had a relaxing afternoon!

I think that's brilliant, if only we had the same in the UK! I'm not quite married yet (1 month to go!) but I think it's a great idea!

Hello Batfink, sounds like another busy day for you! I hate doing admin type stuff too, I know it has to be done but still!

I've achieved Goals 1 & 2 so far today which is good, hurray!

Just going to get on with Goal 3 now, but I might have a tea break before I do!

Good morning!

I just feel so much more productive at this time of the day! And it's good training for my release back into the job market fast approaching!

Aah I really want a puppy dog but I'm not allowed one as we're in rented accomodation at the moment, I can't wait until we have a house of our own! I've never tried any dieting programmes before really, apart from the "breakfast cereal" one where you have two bowls for breakfast and lunch and then a normal tea. Although I usually crack after a few days when I'm starving and in the supermarket where there is cake and large chocolate bars! Do let me know how you find the diet though, I am intrigued to try a proper one. It's too late for the wedding now but I do have the big honeymoon coming up in a few months so I might give a diet a try after the wedding!

Anyway! Here are my goals for today:
Goal 1: Email Sup 1 and ask for their advice on chapters - I'm thinking of splicing a few
Goal 2: Check references
Goal 3: Move on to Chapter 1

I know it seems odd that I'm going back to Chapter 1 after writing 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 but I wrote chapters 1 & 2 in my first year so they're drafts rather than "from scratch" so I have less to do on them!

Have a great day everyone!

I hate waiting for people to come back to me! So I would be just as keen to get feedback/input! However, a thesis is a substantial read and I don't know whether you should chase someone who has asked you for a non-descript, vague reason. I am aware you are job seeking like crazy at the moment so understandably you're going to be keen to find out why they wanted to read it in the first place!

Probably give it a month... I know that seems like ages but if they've asked you for employment purposes they will come back to you before then. If they haven't, then I would drop them an email asking them whether they'd had time to review it and what their thoughts were. I completely, totally understand your anxiety though. Fingers crossed it's something good...! (up)

Hi Button! Well done on getting Goal 1 done!

It's so strange because when I was working full time I started work at 8am every day so I was getting up at 6.30/7am, it's only since I've been working from home that I started to lapse! I'm really going to try and keep up the early starts though because I have been mega productive this morning and have achieved all three of my goals. I'm going to have some lunch now, I think I deserve it!

Eek food shopping, I don't particularly like food shopping that much. I don't mind if I'm doing a specific one but I hate doing a "big" shop where you buy loads of stuff, I find the whole experience very stressful! I should totally do online shopping instead! What is this diet you're going to try? I am intrigued...! Does it involve lots of (sprout) ? hehe ;-)

Good morning all!

Temptation to stay in bed and sleep was HIGH this morning, but here I am!

Good to see we're all being very productive! Glad your test interview went well Batfink, and you managed to get your presentation edited Button! I re-worked a diagram last night with the help of my fiance (he's much more logical than me!) so I will be attempting to put that into my chapter today!

Goal 1: Insert new diagram into Chapter 7
Goal 2: Go over methodology
Goal 3: Create an agenda for next team supervision

I think that will keep me sufficiently busy!

Have a great day everyone, see you later!

I'm so sorry to hear you're having a rough time, I think everyone has given you some great advice. One thing I would do is chase up your union rep and find out what happened to the lawyer. You shouldn't really let the team get away with bullying, I was bullied once in the work place and I always regret not taking it higher. Can you talk to HR?

I think it's critical that you find out what rights you have to your project/data, apply to move on and let these bullies get the punishment they deserve. Will be thinking of you, please come back and let us know how you get on (up)

Hello,

Well I'm all finished with work for now, chapter 7 is ready to be put to bed for a few days, references done and everything! Thank goodness! I much prefer getting up earlier and finishing earlier so I must try and keep it up, but easier said than done! I am going to do a bit of work tonight so it's not completely over sadly!

Anyway, hope you're all having an excellent day, see you tomorrow!

I am excited yes, but it's also so close now that I'm getting nervous too! Eek!

Good on you for getting going Button, I know exactly what you mean, I had the same thing as you yesterday. I'm getting so fed up with writing this chapter now that I was dreading opening it yesterday but once I got going I found I got quite a lot done quite quickly!

Well the good news is, I've managed to get the chapter into a state where I can now leave it alone for a few days, HURRAH! It's less words than I was aiming for originally but they don't want 80,000 words with 10000 of waffle when they could have 70,000 of good quality work right?! (Or am I kidding myself?!)

So I'm now going to sign off and go and get some food shopping done (oh how glamorous!) and I will be back on later to sort out my references and have a play with some of my diagrams.

Thanks Ady, I'll have a go at interrogating the library system again later, hopefully they'll have it sorted at some point today!

I'm hitting the wall today again so I think it may be time for me to put this blinking chapter away for a few days and come back to it when I'm feeling less annoyed about it and when the stupid library system is working again! I could really do with a mars bar now, hehe!

The library system isn't working properly so it's entirely possible that there is something wrong with the above reference and I can't find it on Google either :-( don't worry if you can't find it Ady, but thank you for looking (up)

Hi all,

My library system is down so I'm hoping someone out there has access to the following article:

Innes, A. & Lechner, C. (2002) 'How to achieve staff empowerment? relationships, training and Dementia Care Mapping (DCM)' The Gerontologist, 1, 408

I would be very grateful if anyone can get access and send to me, thanks! :-)