Shirley

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Hello!

I feel loads better today, thanks! Spent all morning in bed reading one of my chapters and doing amendments, which was surprisingly enjoyable to do! It's really old work, mainly stuff I did in 2005/06 but I still like some of the ideas and the actual data (if you want to call it that) is interesting. It needs a lot of restructuring and extra reading, but I got some great articles yesterday so will read them next. My proposed examiners have done a lot of work in this area, so I'd better re-read their stuff in immense detail, but not today. I must say it's been very nice to focus on a different section of work after the last mammoth chapter, a very welcome change.

Hope you had a productive day, whether working or bouncing on trampolines! See you soon. (up)

I've never heard of it before either, and I've got 10 now. I had 9 previously, but my supervisors and I decided to divide one chapter into two, to improve the balance of the discussion and the overall readability. I seriously hope that the actual content in its entirety would be far more important to a reader than the number of chapters listed in the contents page....

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Rubyw is thinking nostalgically about childhood foods, after reading about Walminski's mishap. She recalls her favourites were packets of Dream Topping, spoonfuls of Marmite, empty toothpaste tubes and cold runny uncooked custard, but admits they no longer sound very appetising... :$

Thanks, Walminski! :-) (up)

It's great, Smoobles! (up)

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Lara, you'd make a great salesperson for those trampolines, you convinced me with all that blurb! Though I am a non-scientist and probably quite susceptible to a bit of jargon occasionally... however, I am going to ask you about it in a few weeks, to check how you think your cells are doing! Is it from one of those companies where you can send it back if you're not satisfied within 30 days?

Pari, it's really good that your prof was so pleased with your experiments, how nice to be making such a good impression so early on! Great that you're so into it too, that's a brilliant feeling, you really know you're doing the right thing when you feel like that!!

Armendaf, hope your work's going ok.

Not sure what Verypoor is getting at either, anyone that completes a PhD has self discipline, you can't do it otherwise. No one does it for you, but we all just have different ways of working even though the end product is the same. For me at the moment, this is like being at work/college on days I'm not at work/college. Sometimes you discuss your work, sometimes it's completely mundane, but it doesn't really matter, does it! Finishing a doctorate is heavy going at times, so whatever helps get through it.

Anyway, I'm going to bed now, I'm glad I don't have to go in to work tomorrow and can get over this cold. Maybe all this fruit Ive been eating will have helped. That exhibition thing was just a poster one, I didn't tell anyone about it outside college as I wasn't particularly proud of my bit, though it was nice to get good feedback and I suppose the next one might be more flexible for those contributing. They've got an official webcam set up now at college, so we can watch the building site we're supposed to be moving to eventually for our new premises, fascinating eh! Not sure how many years you'll have to watch it to see anything actually change, maybe if it's recorded and played back at a very high speed or something. I liked the way they launched it in the mailshot though, the graphics reminded me of those 1960s Batman comics, Zap! Pow! Bam! sort of style, except it's for a derelict building on the internet, so not as exciting as Batman!!!

See you tomorrow :-)

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Hello!

Tractorgirl, it's lovely to hear from you! I'm really glad the job's working out well, though I'm impressed with your plans for doing viva prep each night on top of that! How long do you have until the actual viva date?

Lara, you've done loads of work, nothing wrong with a bit of a break here and there, except when the breaks get longer than the work-time lol ;-) oh yes, we've all done it!!! I hope your trampoline meets all your expectations too!

The exhibition went fine, everyone said it was good and long overdue, though I think it will be more useful as a departmental marketing and recruitment aid than anything else for me personally. I feel manky today, everyone is sick and I don't want to be really ill, so will see how it goes. Someone came over to me yesterday while I was working and thrust her snotty face about 6 inches from mine to apologise for having a cold - why?! It was obvious enough and I never speak to her usually. But hopefully I will not get any iller, as there is a lot of work to do here and elsewhere. I dreamt about not finishing my PhD in time last night, and about a madman with an axe waiting outside a house which was a bit scary, but maybe it was just because of feeling ill.

Anyway, good luck with your corrections today! (up)