Borrowing from my peers in collaborative knowledge sharing environments and shared learning etc, for what it's worth, have a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedgeree

The only relevance this has to me is that I would love some food right about now...some really tasty chicken and some rice or perhaps awesome chowmein...

(sigh).

Tesco frozen pizza and powder soup.

Bonne nuit...

As a lover of the French language and as someone who has spent some time with it, I think learning it well enough to grapple with academic pieces needs a substantially high amount of time and commitment, which could be as long as a couple of years at least.

I would still say if the purpose was fieldwork in a foreign country and you needed to learn a language for a 6 month stint, it would still be an idea worth considering. But learning to grasp intellectual pieces will take a huge amount of time, and is honestly, a project in itself.

Translation money may be available with universities, learning funds or councils. That is a better way to go about it.

Mais, bonne chance, c'est une langue tres belle et je vous souhaite beaucoup de succes!! (Can;t put the accents as my keyboard is malfunctioning)

I had a (very successful) presentation in front of a scholar I totally admire on Thursday.

I had no clothes that one would wear to a civilised gathering. So I washed a purple top and a black pair of trousers with detergent borrowed from my flatmates in my BASIN.

And i reached the place smelling good, looking good and feeling good. So, with PhDers, anything works cos we make it work.

(Ok, I am going to sleep now. YAWN)

Search for Jade's posts. She has suggested some many times. One is by Pugh. Another by Dunleavy.

Briefly, I think your reasons for wanting a PhD are slightly problematic if they are primary reasons. Trust me, these factors are the ones that become important in the marathon called a PhD. If the love for university and the lack of a job have led to this decision, you may want to reconsider.

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Guess I shall do that...hmm...thanks..
so many thing on....RAship on a big project, a presentation in front of a scholar in my theoretical framework on Thursday (out of the 4 people in my core concetual framework, 2 are dead, and the other 2 will hear me speak on Thursday, beat that)..

then interviews for my work, and the report with sup for another project still ongoing...

okay, so how many things in my had right now? ohh..right, I've forgotten how to count!

Hmm thanks, and then do you use express scribe?

My thing is, i have interviewed teens and young people, in brief about their internet habits, and in front of their computers so they could show me stuff and i could see things they were doing online etc.

So you can imagine it was largely a very busy conversation, with things being pointed out and me squeezing my schedule in. Its like this hectic 45 to 50 min long things each, and the thought of transcribing is giving me a headache. But i promised transcripts in a 'fat folder' to my sup at our next supervision (which is looming close, AND i am only just done prilly 2/3 of the interviews) and now I am screwed!!

Guys, brief questions.

When you transcribe your one on one in depth interviews, how long is the transcript usually for a 1 hr interview...and roughly how many questions do you usually get in...

I wanted a rough idea now that i hav done a few...wa wndering if any of you more experienced ones, could provide some info from ur experiences (best if these rnt interviews for getting info but ones that will be analysed for themes etc...)

Hmmmm....i am overseas, partly funded for tuitions, and rest myself..Well I cant say this as a norm, but i have cut down everything except basic minimum necessities. yes.

I divide my groceries into three batches. One kind, the store cupboard kind comes once a month. the second kind like cereals and other such as pasta twice, and fresh stuff once a week.
that helps me budget. phone bills are my weak point but desperately trying to cut.

I do an RAship, and occasioanl sporadic research based work that comes in bursts but pays really well.

it's incredibly hard, not just for the 'now' but when thoughts of the future loom large.

But anyway, such is life....and one day I shall perhaps look back and think I did a good job...

Perhaps, the answer for these situations, is a more qualitative approach, though definitely not comparing...

So, perhaps, a more useful approach we could take is to write things like "I have been trying to figure out my approach in the context of X G and T but I still dont think I have quite got my head around Y T I issues"

rather than writing (what I wrote for instance) that I have written x number of words.


Ahhh.sometimes, I do prefer the qual over the quant (depending on what i am trying to achieve)!

(I have epigastritis with erratic eating incidentally and wont be around much on forum as there is killing pressure right now)

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hey amanda you changed clothes!!!!

Hmm, amanda and pamplemousse..i guess every one has a unique style. One of my peers feels writing unless it is for some concrete purpose (like an article) is futile till the end lap, and well she seems to be Ok with that.

My inclination on the other hand is to write. Simply because I love to write. So, if I read a chapter/article, I always write something or else I forget it. (I never can make notes though, somehow that doesnt work with me. But yes, stuff survives in my own writing!! lol)

And so all that writing sounds a lot, yes, sup reads *papers* so it is structured and stuff, but it's just the first term, it's just my individual style of working, and btw my sup is a writer too LOL, so it's going Ok!


Btw, I took up the research asst job, once a week, getting a little scared of overcrowding the plate now.

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Hi,

My sup reads 3000 word papers every fortnight, and I had about 6 such submissions (one per supervision) in the first term.

I am doing fieldwork (started off as a pilot but now a stand alone thing which I intend getting a paper out of) in end Jan.

I did a couple of presentations, one to an interdisciplinary audience.

Over xmas-new year jointly authored a 7000ish paper, as a commissioned report, this was with my supervisor.

Got an invited book review to submit, another submitted earlier as an MSc student, came out in October.

Prepared a brief piece for getting out sometime around Feb.




I know this wasnt *completely* PhD related except the submissions my supervisor reads every fortnight, but I guess the whole of it makes sense together :)

I am happy ...I think as a first term it was satisfactory!

Oh my!!!! I do have some, not all!

Good Lord !!!

hey Bonzo and all you, thanks so much. She has not emailed anymore. But honestly i was so panicked this mornign and noon with the emails!

Take care you guys, yup research going crazy busy!!!! xx

bug

Thanks guys!

Will ignore the emails (have already semt polite reply etc)(up)