I had a really bad headache yesterday. Went to bed with a really painful stomach, woke up with neither and now the headache is back :-(

anyway.

Goal 1: done. I've not got until monday free for PhD work.

Goal 2: have lunch. - oh I just realised its only 11.50. Oh well, I'll have lunch anyway as am feeling really dizzy and think it may be hunger.

Anyone?

I'm at home and cold, but now I feel like a sell out 'old person' for not protesting just a little bit :$

Morning..

I have a bit of RA work to finish this morning, but its eating into my PhD time, so it needs to be done by lunchtime at the latest.

so Goal 1: get on and finish RA work!

I have literally just started using twitter yesterday. Mainly because of the utterly crap communication from southeastern trains and twitter users seem a more reliable source of info than the NRE and southeastern websites. Not really sure on all the # and @ things though. I feel old.

oh god my hubby does that. e.g.

Me: do you know how to do multilevel modelling
him: yeah sure
Me: really
Him: (exasperated) YESSSS of course I know - give me your data
---3 months of faffing about---
Me: you don't know how to do it do you
Him: well, I would have been able to do it if the data wasn't in columns (or equally stupid excuse)

Good luck!

didn't get all the work I needed done yesterday - but did a lot.

Goal 1: put more variables in data set.

Goal 2 done. and a few goals in between

Next Goal: summarise who's completed my questionnaire.

just to add, I always try and write so 'an intelligent layman' could understand my work - so if people on the street don't know what you're saying as common sense/commonly known, then I'd reference

not in your subject area (biology???/chemistry???) but I would tend to reference the things you are saying - they are only 'common knowledge' because someone once tested it. I would tend to only put 1 or 2 references just to say there is evidence to back up what you are saying.

if there are loads of potential references, I sometimes put "e.g." like...

people say chocolate is addictive (e.g. Sneaks 2010)

I grew up near bath and went to college there. It is a wonderful city - i would definitely recommend it. Brunel (I've only been there once for 3 hours) I found very bleak and a bit of a pain to get to and from central london (although I suppose bath is no better, but at least you have a ton of shops on your doorstep and Brizzle close by).

Not too sure about who's best for sport, but i know bath have a great reputation - don't they have a football team in the leagues?

oh I have a fully working heating system, but for some reason when I sit in my home office - the heat just disappears so the boiler is on all day. If I sit in the living room the boiler is off most of the time becuase the room keeps the heat in - so is cheaper. I'm now watching the wright stuff :$

Goal 1: DOne

Goal 2: compute subscales for each group

urgh I didn't get much work done yesterday. Mainly not helped by the fact that the only room that is warm and stays warm (therefore saving £££ on heating) is the living room - and I've been heating it with the tv being on :$

But its only data stuff - no 'thinking' as such so I have no excuse.

Goal 1: reverse code scoring.

my eagerness about syntax has caused me to double post :-(

Is there any command that allows me to save output as variables in my data set?

I need to make an average of 5 participants scores, but then save it into the data set. at the mo I'm stuck copying and pasting from SPSS output > excel > SPSS

Which is rubbish!

My hubby could do it all on excel I suppose, but he's at work - stupid work :-s and I'd like to know if its possible for future reference anyway.