Gah it took me absolutely forever to find a cheap guesthouse near to where the conference is. It's now almost lunch time and I'm wondering where the morning went.

My next goal is to get a good chunk of my conference presentation written.

Oh Sneaks I hope your dog is doing OK!

Right. I am back to work now after a week away at an international conference. A relatively late start and I have about a million things to do. My first goals are to call the department administrator to find out about the end of year panel which I didn't realise I had to do, and then to book a hotel for another conference in a few weeks.

I did (some) transcription and had a great supervision meeting.

My next goal for today is to read a couple of papers between now and 5.15 when I am off to the pub for the monthly PhD meetup.

Goal 1 done. I will have to see how the meeting goes this afternoon but he wasn't as critical about it as I expected.

My next goal is to work on my presentation which I will do for the next hour.

Morning all. A late start for me because I have been to the gym.

Just had an email from my supervisor with comments on my first draft chapter and we have a meeting this afternoon, so my first goal is to go over the comments and make a note of any points I want to raise.

Progress report/thesis plan written and emailed to supervisor.

Now on with the transcription...

I have decided to scrap my transcription for now. I have a meeting with my main supervisor, who is on sabbatical at the moment, tomorrow. Last week I worked out a brief thesis plan and realised it would be a good idea to flesh this out a bit more and to take it to show him, so this is my goal for this morning.

Morning all. My goal for this morning is to focus on transcription. I aim to get 5 pieces done.

My first goal is (finally) completed. I still need to update my 'quotes' document before I file away the papers but this will be goal number 3, which I will do after spending some time out in the sun reading a chapter from a book. There is so much literature I have to get to grips with at the moment. Ugh.

Morning all. A bit of a late start today for me. I am so worn out after my weekend.

I have a pile of notes from the last couple of week's reading which need sorting out and putting into Zotero so that is my first goal today.

I did my 5 pieces of transcription. Cannot. Do. Anymore...

I have a pile of papers to get through so most of the rest of the day will be spent reading and summarising.

Today I need to get some transcription done. My first goal is to do 5 pieces.

Right. My transcription came along slowly today- I did 3 pieces. I will do some more first thing tomorrow when I'm feeling fresh.

next goal is to finish off for the day is reading, and to do this until 4.30 (which will be 15 tomatoes, so a good day for me!).

Don't worry Pink numbers, we all have days like that.

I ended up getting distracted with arrangements for travel to Germany for a conference next weekend and hardly got any transcription done at all. Must concentrate and get on with it this afternoon. My next goal is to do so until 3.

Oh dear, make sure you eat plenty of food to mop up the excess alcohol in your system! I don't drink much during the week anymore because I find it impissible to work with a hangover.

I got goal number 1 done- worked for my target time and got all of the introductory stuff and background literature set out.

I now have loads of transcription to do, so will work on that until lunch time.