Happy birthday Batfink! Glad you had a great weekend, have a virtual (mince) from us all! I'm "English" but I'll forgive you for the rugby!;-) hope you're not feeling too sniffly this morning!

I spent most of the weekend being full of cold too - I'm feeling better today, fingers crossed, so I'm hoping to crack on. I want to get chapter 6 completed this week, as well as an amendment to the chapter I was writing last month. I then need to crack on with another chapter from 7th March so these are my main overarching goals this week.

Hope your presentations are ok Button - I hate giving them! I'm not going to go into teaching after this needless to say! You'll be fine, I'm sure :-)

Hi,

There have been a number of threads on this topic so it's well worth searching through the archive for answers to this one. In my experience, you will have already written a research proposal. You need to read widely around the subject and be prepared to answer questions about methodology. Dress like you would for any other job interview. Good luck!

Crikey sounds like you're both very busy! That is rubbish having to work on your birthday, but at least you can celebrate afterwards and you've got all weekend to have early birthday celebrations with your other half before he packs up!

I'm feeling marginally better this morning but I'm a bit bemused as my nose had cleared up when I went off to sleep last night, I was breathing fine and slept fairly well, though I've woken up all bunged up again! Go figure! Anyway. I managed to get a fair amount of work done yesterday so I'm not going to beat myself up today, I'll do what I can but I'm definitely going to get outside at some point as it's a gorgeous spring day here!

Have a good day everyone - I can't believe it's Friday already, how did that happen?!

Right, I'm done, I'm disappearing under a pile of snotty tissues and drowning here, so I'm quitting for the day! See you tomorrow hopefully!

I would have written more in my first year, like more contextual stuff. I also spent a lot of time looking at articles online then making written notes which I am now kicking myself for SO HARD! I wish I'd just typed straight into a word document so I could've cut and pasted now! Doh!

Hehe a cold computer virus! I just feel so guilty because I didn't get anything done yesterday! But I think I will just finish what I'm doing now then allow myself the rest of the afternoon off. No point prolonging the thing by working too hard I suppose!

Sounds like you've made some good progress this morning Batfink, I wish I was better at structuring my work but I just tend to write and then worry about it afterwards! I used to be much better at structuring when I was an undergrad, I don't really know what's happened to me to be honest! Oh well! Have a good afternoon :-) hope you're not coughing too much!

Thanks Batfink! I actually feel worse today as I predicted yesterday :-( but I didn't manage to get anything done yesterday at all so I feel like I have to do something today..! I hate stupid colds, they are so annoying! what an annoying virus! Glad to hear you're feeling better anyway, I'm hoping I can fend this one off fairly quickly as my brain is refusing to function properly and feels like (sprout)

The trolls strike again! I'm feeling pretty lousy today, runny itchy sore nose and sore throat but I must keep going otherwise I'll just make more work for myself in the long run and there's always the risk I'll feel worse tomorrow! I want to get my minimum word count done today then I'm going to give up!

Hope everyone has had a good day, I'm giving up now as I'm just writing rubbish and I'm starting to feel the lurgy properly! I managed to achieve the piece of work for my DoS and my daily quota of words though so that's good. I'm still not happy with the structure of the chapter but I'm just going to concentrate on getting the main body of text there, then cutting and pasting afterwards.

Have a good pancake day, see you back here tomorrow to carry on!

Thanks Button, I'm feeling a lot better than I did first thing this morning! I think I'm just conscious that I do only have 10 months left and it's freaking me out slightly!

I hope Batfink is feeling better too, I am starting to feel the lurgy now (thanks fiance!) so I'm just trying to get my head round a piece of work I have to complete for my DoS by tomorrow, then once I've done that I can get on with writing some more of my chapter. I really don't have time to be ill right now! Hope you're having a good day Button! I know the feeling very well, I had one of those, "can't be bothered" days yesterday which is probably why I'm freaking out so much today! I'm excited that it's pancake day today though, yay I love pancakes!

Morning all,

Having a flat day today and I haven't even started yet! Spent most of yesterday evening (and night!) thinking, I can't do it, I'm not intelligent enough or competent to do it :-( I know this is probably par for the course but I really don't think I'm going to finish it at the moment!

Anyway! Enough of my depressing stuff - hope you are all raring to go this morning! I really hope I can get out of this downer before the end of the day! At least it's pancake day today, huzzah!

I've managed to make some progress today but I'm not very happy with it, I don't really know what I'm trying to say in the chapter so how anyone else is going to know is beyond me! Oh well! Hope you're feeling ok Batfink!

Aaaw Batfink! Sorry you feel poorly! I think sometimes it's better to admit defeat and head back to bed when you're ill! Why not take the afternoon off to rest and come back to it tomorrow?

Hmm well I have re-structured the chapter but I'm not doing well with the actual writing today. I'm going to have a break away from the computer for a bit now then come back to it a bit later and hopefully get something committed to paper today! Hope everyone's having a more productive day than me!