I can't really focus on the analysis. I think I'll get it sorted quickly and easily if I approach it when I'm fresh so I'll leave it for now.

I reaaaaally want to go and catch up on Coronation Street with a glass of wine. :-( I'm going to have a stab at my 'case for support' for my grant application instead.

Introduction is (more or less) sorted. My next goal is to work out a final draft of the analysis.

You can do it!

My conclusion is more or less done. I'm not quite happy with the way it ends but I'll come back to it. My next goal is to work out a final draft of the introduction section.

I did set up a dropbox account because my supervisor used it to send me a load of files a while back but I haven't used it since! Doh. I could have had my other half email everything to me but I really don't work that well in university without my laptop so I decided just to get the gym out of the way.

My goal for today is to get my journal article finished. So I am going to start with writing the second half of the conclusion.

I have managed to leave my pen drive at home. :-s

I am going to hit up the gym, cycle home and aim to be back at my desk by 2.30 at the latest.

I am sending out get well soon vibes to those that need them. I'm also feeling a bit run down and woke up in the middle of the night coughing but I think its just because I overdid things majorly over Christmas and New Year rather than because I'm getting ill!

I have just attended a professional development course.
My next goals are to meet with a lecturer to give her back the marking I did and to fill out a form for the student loans company.

I am 400 words into my conclusion and feel like I have hit a brick wall with my writing.

My next goal is to mark the 7 remaining papers which have to be done before tomorrow.

Thanks for the support! A checklist might be a good idea. I tend to work on whatever feels most urgent and also whatever I feel like I can work on most effectively at any given time but I may have to start being more systematic this month.

I have done nothing during the last 50 minutes. On mytomatoes.com I was honest and wrote 'PANICKING' during my last tomato!

I am going to focus now and spend until 4 working on my conclusion section.

The proposal is still coming along slowly. I have drafted out the impact section.

I have just had a look around the Je-S system and have realised there are several attachments I need to include with the application and that it is going to be twice as much work as I thought. I am really starting to feel like I can't get everything done in time. :-(

I'm going to have a break from the proposal for now and work on the conclusion section of my article.

I hope you're getting on OK Sneaks, it sounds very frustrating.

I am getting there slowly with the summary section. There is still more to do but I'll come back to it tomorrow. My next goal is to make a start on the 'impact summary' and 'academic beneficiaries' sections.

Morning!

Today it is just me, the cat, my journal paper, grant applications and a pile of marking. Finding it hard to decide where to start. :-(

OK so my first goal is to go back to the summary section of my grant application and to get a full draft written.

I really couldn't concentrate on any more writing so I have marked 5 papers instead. I am leaving for the gym soon, with a final goal of marking 2 more papers once I get back.

Don't worry about a cup of milk Sneaks- there was a study with people on diets and the group that ate yoghurt 3 times a day lost more weight than the group that didn't. Something to do with calcium aiding weight loss, so it's not such a bad thing.

Anyway, I now have the main bulk of my analysis section sorted. I still need to go through and look at the overall structure and make sure the sections transition into each other smoothly but I'm leaving it for now.

My next goal is to get 200 or 300 words of the conclusion drafted. The conclusion I wrote for the original chapter is being more or less cut completely so unfortunately its a case of actually writing rather than just editing with this one.

I now have a rough draft of the ethics section. I have only used 1/4 of the maximum character count so far so I'm sure there loads more which needs to go in but I am moving on for now (I can totally identify with the feeling of not being able to concentrate on one thing!).

My next goal today is to hopefully finish the analysis section of my journal paper.