Thanks all!

@Sneaks: thanks, although doubt that's going to happen as this was a very close knit, scholarly group of all known faces of sup and I'm sending the piece in to a journal very (very) soon (actually the theory bits of it is already with a journal)

PS: Didnt tell you guys but am moving to a really nice room... its still a Hall of residence but with a piano and a garden and bang where I wanted it to be, 3 mins walk from my uni and in the middle of theatres, parks and what not!!!! That's just ten more days living in the crime ridden area where I live now :-)

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thank you:-)

Or perhaps not W.... early morning upset tummy and hence online at this unearthly hour :-( and winning this thread :-)

PS: Cant we interpret it as a thread that has everyone as a winner and no last winner.... the thread of continuous winners where anyone gets to wear the hat as many times as they wish ? :-) Or would that just suck the fun out of it ;-)

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Thanks for keeping the scene exciting while the winner was away taking a few days siesta. Ok, so now that I have returned, your problems are all solved. You can now celebrate the victory of the bug...

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Hi y'all :-)

Just to say am back, conference done. Hand rested, much, much better. The conference went off well I think. I was nervous to be the only student in a room of scholars, spoke at my usual supersonic speed which only I can understand (!) but on the plus side, people came up and said great things, asked for the paper and actually sought me out later to say pretty nice stuff :-)

My sup was in the audience (which was scary) and she said 'it has been a triumph, in all, a great communicative moment!'

The flip side: everyone agreed I spoek too fast for people to grasp stuff. That I was operating at a level that was slightly difficult to get for non niche people (but I am just 10 months in)....

It was scary yes, to speak in a set of 11 speakers where everyone else was a scholar, including one who started his work when my mum was 5 years old. Well, he walked up after lunch and asked for my slides (even if he did it out of politeness, I was overwhelmed!)

Some experience, I tell you. Oh dear....

tx all, jst to say am nt takng a holiday/break. thrs a 3 day conference in the week ahed.. am just off typng unles v v ncesary.

best, love, bug

dear all,

just to say Bye for a bit (a week or more or less) as I am avoiding any typing that's not absolutely required for my hands refuse to work on the keys, and need rest.

:-) stay well, and love

Bug

uhhm what? i havent heard of this ever....

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to add to eska, yes, while i love my work tremendously, it comes with the attendant complexity of this: if you dont strike a balance, and if you ignore warnings early on, then you will sometime find that you cannot (i mean physcially cannot) get to what you love the most ~(in my case, from when I was a tiny little girl till today, my most precious, prized, beloved activity being writing...writing and writing)

So what happens when a person whose greatest joy is writing, has hand injury and cannot type with both hands and types this text here in 15 mins?

Hence, even when you feel a lot piling up, take a break, sit back, disconnect.

congratulatons W.

oh no i just won :-)(up)

thanks Hj, am hoping the exact same thng too.

xx

Bug

PS to add an edit: I just thought of how like our spoken words, our written words too reflect on our moods at times... I have RSI starting and maybe that made me snap and snarl in my post? Did it? Did it not? I could not say, but I apologise to ST and HJ both. I am not deleting anything of what I said for people should get to see. But I truly am sorry if I snapped at anyone. Sorry, really, and I just want to say that I have piled my own plate and things are fine except for the mad rushes at times and the stupid early RSI.

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Hmm, point noted Hazyjane, and I agree that there are cases when things are 'passed on'. But, there are plenty of instances also (at least as I see with peers in my dept) where 'opportunities' are made available, and its up to indiv students to pick. This does not mean however, that things cannot get stressful (even if you've piled your own plate by choice).

The entire post however well intended seemed (and still seems to me) to be focused on the explaining-to-supervisor angle, which I find understandable, now that you draw my attention to it, although not entirely unsurprising as I had to scan my posts to see how it would have seemed I was holding someone else responsible for not being considerate enough.

I hate getting into fights, most of all forum fights where emotions/sentiments as intended by the authors are lost in translation/misunderstood via typed words etc, and where all words exchnaged are presevred in print. But apologies to ST who intends well, although I maintain that there is no reason to believe anyone is forcing anything on me.

one advice to you guys ahead of me (sorry!)

From a person who has written volumes in her first year, and taken on twice as much as one person could/should, *and* has now been found with early beginnings of RSI, rendering her left arm *absolutely* incapacitated...

please take breaks from the keyboard every 20 mins, as you write up, pl dont let your hands type away for hours on end... and please domnt let your wrists touch any surface or your palm even as you type.

RSI is unfortunate and emotionally dificult for you have to stop typing at all....