All morning I have had emails frm students about essays. They actually want me to hunt down references for them - not ones they have found but don't have access, I can understand that, but they have actually said "can you find me some full texts on XX topic" - isn't that their job???

she seems to have just randomly copied and pasted sections around - so not actually adding anything. Its quite irritating, especially as she then rang me and said, although she started doing it, she did it before reading on and then decided it was a bad idea to change anything :-s

I just would like to know for next time!

My sup changed a lot of my work last week, without tracking, so now I have a complete mess to sort out.

Is there a way of making sure that when she open the file and changes stuff it is automatically tracked using track changes?

I think Algaequeen's suggestion of having 1 goals was a good one. So my goal for the morning is to reorganise my lit review and see where I need to add/remove stuff.

After 3 sleepless nights and constant stressing about having to re-write with this theory. Sup tells me yesterday "oh did I tell you to do that?" - GRRR. So now re-writing it my way. BUT because of all the stressing I have lost a few days and she wants the entire write up to be done by Monday - which is completely impossible. I am teaching all day Friday, so means I only have 4 days. ANyway, I will try my best.

Today:
- re-write literature review

Tomorrow:
Re-write method and results

Saturday/Sunday:

Write discussion

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my hubby bought me a posh coffee maker - one that uses pods, and it sits on my desk, its supposed to motivate me. unfortunately it just means that I get whacked out on coffee all day so constantly need the toilet and am buzzing so much I can't concentrate. hmm. with a little self control it is useful though, as a reward and something to do in my tomatoes breaks.

I think I might implement the trampoline idea from the exercise thread though, although will mean having to wear a sports bra while doing work to avoid sagginess in later life - all that jumping.

I would like to add that i have an unhealthy obsession in teenage vampire fiction. And this week a very unhealthy obsession (to the point of changing my career) in the jon venables case - i can't hellp myself from googling things and reading more and more. I NEED TO STOP!

I think to be honest that any job I will get will be through someone I know, or someone my supervisor knows so its worth 'putting it out there' that you are looking. However, I am pretty much convinced that there will be nothing for me this year so am looking for jobs locally that can help pay the mortgage.

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I think the mods would suggest the site you mention. They would recommend findapostdoc.com :-)

I regularly trawl individual uni vacancy pages, because sometimes they have stuff they don't put up on the general job sites, they also have stuff that you wouldn't necessarily search for but may be related. Also search your discipline's job areas e.g. mine is the british psychological society - so I search there all the time.

She ignores emails as well :-( the main problem is that i wrote a project proposal for the second study AND did a 14000 word lit review that explained all the issues around it and its clear she never read it, i've never had any feedback about it. She's heard a buzzword I mentioned and jumped on it, rather than reading through the info. well I'm off to a function now - dull! So I am goign to read a few journals on the way there and hope to actually get the writing done tomorrow. at least I will feel like I have done something then rather than just pondering about problems!

I'm trying to do my 1 thing today, but just ending super annoyed with sup. Basically she has decided to re-angle my PhD so it comes from a different perspective. I was introducing this perspective later on, but not at the beginning. It has basically meant that I should have measured some stuff which I haven't - if she had just bothered to read just some of my writing 2 years ago I wouldn't be in this mess. I feel like I am having to blag it and write around the fact I haven't measured this data - this is the kind of thing I didn't want to be doing as I think these kind of weaknesses will be ripped apart by examiners! Hmph.

well today I am going to try and get my head around different definitions of things, so I can understand how sup wants me to re-write everything and whether I can or not.

I'm peed off with sup, my phd life is a mess and I have now developed an addiction of watching 'Lion Man' on sky1 :-(

can't really settle either. I'm going to do a big chart for what i have to do before my funding runs out. Hopefully it will be motivational rather than daunting.

I have used the theory later on, but she wants me to talk about it earlier. I think this is fine for the thesis, as it gets covered in study 2. BUT in a publication, all I can see is people questionning why the hell it has been discussed. So confused. I'm going to go over some of my previous writing and see if I can get inspiration!

Ok, so today hasn't been great so far. I had to go for my smear :-( but its all done now and off my mind.

I have a major stress out problem with my PhD. My sup decided to change my first study so it is based on a different theory. SO I now have to pretend that I collected the data with that in mind, when I didn't, and the data doesn't really fit it. She also wants me to write it up for publication, so in this article I will talk about a theory that isn't actually tested? - so confused! SHe says the study will be 'couched in the theory' but we don't necessarily test it - this just seems wrong, any ideas?

Anyway, today...

- going to look at said theory and see how the hell am going to write it up
- write a list of things I need to do to change the paper before sups deadline.
- do one set of qual analysis cos sup thinks i've done it all!