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Hello there, back again for another day!

Lara - a good night's work there, you must be so pleased!! Great to have finished the new writing for that section, editing is the next step to the final version. I agree, you've all helped enormously with maintaining the motivation on this weird academic marathon, and we should celebrate at the end especially now we've 'bonded like hostages' lol!!

Tractorgirl, good to have finished the abstract, one more thing done!

You were right about me moaning more because it was late, it's amazing how different it seems the next day after a bit of sleep. I'll just do one pic per chapter, and say what I was investigating and what my methods were. I'll aim to get it finished by Dick van Dyke time, then leave it. I'll come back to it later to spot any elusive errors, then send it off.

See you later!

Hello!

Armendaf, your evening sounds ok to me - innovative reading technique (!), as you say, plus your mindmap was useful! What more can you do when you're working tomorrow as well?

Tractorgirl - sounds like you had lovely day! Great to get away from the PhD for a while - nice to be reminded there's life beyond a thesis!! Hope you got something nice on your shopping trip too, you deserved a good day out!

I've been looking at that stuff I'm supposed to submit for the research degrees exhibition in the last few hours, and the more I look at it, the more it's making me anxious, which isn't very good. I thought I'd picked the pics and done the rough draft of the blurb, but I'm not sure about it now, it looks horrendously inadequate today. How can you sum up a PhD in 6/8 images plus a tiny bit of text AND make it look interesting to anyone who drifts in and knows nothing about your work? AND who you'd quite like to think - ooh her work sounds fascinating, tell me more! Well, it's got me flummoxed, though I hope it's only temporary. I was looking at an email from Friday (that I've ignored till today) with indicative examples from some of our research centres, so I suppose I'll try to do something like that... I wish I wasn't involved in it, but I am, so I've got to do it and not spend too long on it, because it'll take time away from my thesis, which is the important thing. I'll think about it in the morning.

Hope you're having a good evening Lara btw!

Goodnight, see you all tomorrow!!

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