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I did my first one at the end of my first year, but this was work from my masters degree and I didn't feel ready to present my PhD work by then!
I presented at 2 during my 2nd year and have another coming up in December.

I'm umming and ahhing about whether to bother with any others, 4 seems like plenty to me!

Edited to add I also attended one International conference in germany which I didn't present at...

Morning.

Goal 1- gym. DONE.
Goal 2- drop books off at library- DONE.
Goal 3- Write 500 words of literature section
Goal 4- Rework one piece of analysis
Goal 5- Work on presentation for next month

Goal 1- finally done. I have decided to carry on with the analysis for the rest of the day as this is the bit which is stressing me out and needs the most work.

Tomorrow I will start with the literature section while I'm fresh, and I'll do the other bits of admin at the weekend.

Batfink, at least you have the excuse of the trains, I've only just sat down for the day and I only had to travel from my bedroom to living room!

I had a much needed lie in but have now had to cancel my 4.45 spin class and will go for a quick run instead so I can work later. I've been cutting my days short all this week which is not good.

Goal 1- rework one analysis section.
Goal 2- write up 500 words of literature stuff.
Goal 3- Type up notes from a supervision session from ages ago which I forgot to do (audio recorded so its not too bad).
Goal 4- Go through the millions of PDFs of articles I have saved onto my computer and delete the ones which are already saved into refworks or that are useless and get the others into some sort of order.

I managed my 500 words. I am making slow but steady progress but still panicking even though I have over half of the chapter drafted by now.

I'm not feeling well at all and am having trouble focusing so rather than trying to write my next goal is to reread a couple of articles which are relevant for the analysis I'm doing and to see what else I can find which will help.

My work is going slowly today. I have managed somewhere between 200-300 words, which for a first draft of analysis isn't good. I'm setting myself the goal of another 500 words by mid afternoon.

Morning everyone.

I'm not feeling good today at all but will get what I can done (this is one of the days I curse being my own boss because if I was working in an office or something and didn't care about my job too much I'd have called in sick and not worried about it!).

My two main goals are to make progress with both my analysis and literature sections of the chapter I'm writing. First up in the analysis.

I personally have no idea, so I'd ask my supervisor whether they thought I should or not.

Sneaks, you don't even want to know what I managed to do with the application I submitted on Friday for a postdoc fellowship. I realised this morning that I managed to completely f*ck up when getting everything together and emailing it across. I'm trying to console myself with the fact that there was almost zero chance of me getting it anyway, and it won't be making the same mistake again so at least I can learn from it.

I am really, really struggling to do anything today as I don't feel good at all. No point in me staring blankly at a screen all afternoon so I am going to read one article over the next hour, call it a day and then make up the couple of hours on Saturday morning.

Happy Monday everyone.

My goals for today are-
Goal 1- Teach stats class- DONE
Goal 2- Email materials to a student who has been ill and missed half the lectures who needs help catching up.
Goal 3- Get the notes from my last few weeks reading typed and organized. I usually do this weekly but haven't bothered recently.
Goal 4- Do either some transcription or writing, depending on how tired I am towards the end of the day (I had a bit of a boozy weekend so Monday isn't being good to me).

I haven't managed to do any PhD work yet. I did make rocky road though (which I managed to mess up and all the marshmellows melted. Damn.). I really don't think I can face anything which requires too much thinking but I have a lot more transcription to do so I will get on with that. The goal for the afternoon is at least 3 pieces.

Emaa... study in bed?!

I just sent my application pack off and am glad to see the back of it! Sooo much time and effort but future applications shoulld't be so time consuming now that I have a research proposal and decent CV which can be tweaked.

Next up, shower and then get on with some PhD work!

Morning! I have a bit of a fuzzy head after spending the night in the pub but am just about able to focus!

Goal 1- read through my application pack, make sure cover letter doesn't sound wanky and pretentious, etc and submit application.
Goal 2- Shower (must submit application before doing anything else!).
Goal 3- Make rocky road to take to the in laws' tonight.
Goal 4- Work on analysis.

I have written my abstracts.

NOW I have realised that the careers advisor I spoke to told me I should write a covering letter to go with it all. Damn, damn, damn. This is my next goal.

I just got back from a fairly long lunch break during which i went into town for Thai food.

I have realised that getting together the 2 samples of writing is going to take more work than I thought because I realised they want a 1 page abstract for each one. One of them is a journal article and has an abstract which is only 200 words so it needs to be longer. Sigh. My goal for this afternoon is to get these written, then to look over everything in my application pack and then to submit it.