Oooh Tractorgirl, it was great, wasn't it!! Really good episode!! It made me jump a few times too, but don't worry about the spooky noises, as long as it's not loud gum chewing sounds (!!) and you haven't got any corpses at home, you should be ok! Did you notice all the van Dykes in the opening credits? I wondered if they were Dick's son's kids? And yet another deranged medic in that hospital too... I was a bit worried about that medium drooping her hair so near those candles too, singed hair is not good (quite smelly).

My work's going well at last, so will get back to it. See you later!

nape

shall

that one's a bit lazy of me really, but there you go!

Hi,

Lara, you got loads done last night - well done, you're really on a roll now (as they say!) Absolutely know what you mean about your brain turning to mush, there was a Doctor Who episode where people's brains got replaced with pale jellyish alien life forms and it sort of felt a bit familiar! Good to have stopped when you did and pace yourself, no point in burning yourself out completely at this stage.

Armendaf, glad your lecture went ok, but the 4 hour one on Wednesday sounds challenging. I've never done more than 2hr sessions, anything longer would have to be well planned to make sure the students came back after their coffee break - they vote with their feet when they don't like you! You can only do so much on your thesis when you're working too, it's really difficult maintaining the continuity in your writing sometimes.

K - wow, submitted!!! Congratulations, that is a major achievement!! Good luck with finding a job, it is so easy to forget money things when you're concentrating on finishing, but we're only human.

Better get stuck in for today I suppose, so see you later. Pleased with my clean kitchen blind today though, there must be a little bit of Stepford in me after all lol.

cope

I know they use up time, but at least they keep the brain ticking over when the thesis isn't moving along

shalt

(thou shalt not do this, that or the other....)

pope

Good advice, Bonzo and Tricky. I had the same problem (excessive slowness) and found stuff installed with BBC iPlayer (some Kontiki p2p application) was eating up more than half my CPU power. It's been better since I got rid of it, so thanks for pointing me in the right direction.:-)

Hi Lara and Tractorgirl,

Just been reading all your progress posts, you've both done so much today!

TG hope your headache has gone now, but it sounds like you're well on target! The bits you've got left sound very do-able in the time you've got, you've got amazing discipline to have stuck with it, I'm very impressed! Wish I was more like that. Exciting to be planning printing it out and delivering it now, at last the end's in sight!! ABBA sounds good for working to, I've had Elvis on today- late 50s/early 60s pop - lovely!! Well, to me anyway!!

Lara, you've done an incredible amount today - lots of writing, plus it's very focussed, not just a load of woffle to pad it out, as you've been incorporating all the reviewer's feedback and queries into it. As you said, they're like mini-examiners, so it's been time well spent. I can't imagine (yet) how it must be when you're so near the deadline, but you really can't do any more than you are. You and TG are working flat out for an extended period of time, which is really hard to sustain and not go a bit mad or get ill.

I'm glad you have a rant about people asking about when you're finishing, and not understanding that you can't go off for days out at this point, they just don't realise the enormity of what we're doing. Moan all you like on here, it's the best place for it! It makes me a feel a bit anti-social sometimes, but if I don't enjoy myself if I'm worrying about the time I could be spending on my thesis. Wondering what excuse I'll be able to give when it's all done and I don't want to go and visit someone hehe...

I'm ashamed to say I fell asleep after Dick van Dyke and did virtually nothing after that, then decided to clean the venetian blind in the kitchen, not sure why, have never been a stepford wife type but maybe I'm becoming one of those cleaning procrastinators, better than the faffing around on the internet type, as at least you can see a difference I guess! Still, I haven't had any time off work since Christmas so not too lazy really. Tomorrow will be better and I will finish this thing - I made an artificial deadline for it, as it doesn't really have to be done till Wednesday but then it eats into the other time, so best to get it out of the way.

Anyway I'm off to bed now, hope you both have a good night. See you in the morning!

shaft

pike

Do either of you know any other word games? Not that I should be asking really...

shirt

Oooops sorry about that double post, impatient as well as fidgety obviously...

Hello there Tractorgirl and Lara,

I bet you're both poring over your computers there, but I can't keep still now, so will have a proper break, I think. No point in wriggling around on my chair, is there! Still haven't finished my blurb and have realised to my horror about half the pics are a lower resolution than they would like, but can't repeat them now so it will have to do. Anyway, I will listen to some nice cheesy music and have something to eat now, so see you later.

Hope you're getting on better than me!!

Hello there Tractorgirl and Lara,

I bet you're both poring over your computers there, but I can't keep still now, so will have a proper break, I think. No point in wriggling around on my chair, is there! Still haven't finished my blurb and have realised to my horror about half the pics are a lower resolution than they would like, but can't repeat them now so it will have to do. Anyway, I will listen to some nice cheesy music and have something to eat now, so see you later.

Hope you're getting on better than me!!