Morning everyone.

My first goal today is to spend until 10.30 working on my presentation, which I have decided to more or less rewrite.

Oh, I love a good moan!

I hate how unstructured my working life is. I hate having no real feedback from assignments etc and consequently feeling like I'm not good enough and expecting to be found out soon. I hate that my main supervisor hasn't replied to my last 2 emails, the first one sending him a draft of written work, and I hate wondering if its because the work was so rubbish! OK, I know I am being paranoid but it's really weird that I've not heard from him.

I hate the misconceptions surrounding PhDs. I hate the twats from school who I bumped into recently on a night out who told me that I'm 'not really living' because I am just 'doing university course after university course'. Fucking morons.

Supervision was inspiring and very useful. We had a talk about my thesis plan and how to develop things. It was great but I now feel like I have absolutely loads of stuff to do! e.g. I may more or less rewrite the presentation I'm giving in August which I had half put together.

I am now looking up some books to go and take out of the library. Then the gym. Then this afternoon probably reading in the garden rather than having the afternoon off as planned. Hohum.

Wow, worst nights sleep ever!

Supervision at 9, so will spent the next 45 minutes working on the paper I'm writing.

Not holding out much hope for my productivity this afternoon so I'm planning to take the afternoon off and work Saturday morning to make it up. But no, I won't be watching the football!

Goal 2 (more or less) done. I am now going to continue focusing on writing for as much longer as I can stand and take it one tomato at a time.

i hope you work your presentation out Sneaks!

Right. I have spent 2 hours working on writing a paper and am making good progress. Even though I've only been at it for 2 hours my concentration is starting to go slightly. I'm useless in this weather! My second goal is to continue writing until 11am.

Ev how awful of your boyfriend's Dad. I saw that you have started going to the gym- I usually run a lot but can't anymore so joined one yesterday. So far so good!

Right, my first small job is to send a couple of emails. Then to get a chunk of writing done. No excuse as early morning is my peak working time!

Well done Batfink, enjoy your afternoon!

It's not quite lunch yet but I am sick of the analysis stuff I am writing up for this paper. Ended up faffing around and letting myself get distracted. I think this is the first time I have started to feel fed up with working on the same bloody topic for 3 years. Writing is also making me panic slightly today because I am thinking about the whole 80,000 words and feeling overwhelmed.

So I have 6 pieces of transcription to do, and aim to have them done by the end of the day.

Goal 1 done- I have spent 2 (slow) hours working on my presentation. I can't quite decide whether to include a particular section so will come back to it tomorrow.

I am writing a paper based on the presentation so will work on this up until lunch time.

Pink numbers, the frozen yoghurt sounds great! I'm always looking for new things to try so might Google for some recipes later!

Today is going to be gloriously sunny, but I have to accept that there is no time to laze around in the garden tanning, or even reading in the back garden. First up, I will get a chunk of my conference presentation done.

All you people working really hard on a Sunday are making me feel a bit guilty.

I achieved my goal for today- worked for 2 hours and did 3 pieces of transcription. I'm done for the day- I can't handle working through the weekend!

Morning Moonblue. Wow, you have been working hard this weekend!

Early start for me to get some work out of the way so I can enjoy the afternoon because it was allegedly supposed to be sunny out, but I can't see it myself.

My goal is to focus on transcription until 10am.

I didn't manage to do any writing during the last hour. Instead I wasted the time trying to get hold of a few articles online. My concentration really dips after lunch, ugh.

Now I am setting myself the easy task of inputting notes and references from this week's reading.

Goal 2 done- managed to spend the morning on my presentation and made good progress.

I'm fed up of thinking about analysis and my data for now, so my next goal is to spend the next hour on my methodology chapter.

Its definately the weather!

Right, goal 1 is done. Decided to rehash and use some stuff from a presentation I did a couple of months ago, so I am making progress faster than I first anticipated. Next goal is to continue working on this up until lunch.