Right, that settles it. I'm going for a run today then having a late lunch of pancakes, yum!

Right, time to rescue my own thread and get my nose to the grindstone. I'm a bit ropey today, probably because I attempted to burn the midnight oil until half 2 this morning clocking up more tomatoes. But I promised myself I'd cut down the morning faffing. Word count is now back down to 15,060 courtesy of some biiig cuts, and my aim for today is to finish at least two sections of my introduction.

So, by the power of mumra!

I never got any yesterday :-(

Hmmm, I think I may have to invent shrove wednesday (husband's grasp of his own catholicism is rubbish so I reckon I can swing it)

Oh Sneaks, how frustrating. Your access to resources sounds almost as bad as mine (I once spent three weeks trying to get access to library books, eventually I just gave up and accepted I'll never have any!). Hope today goes better and you're able to make some progress.

Smelly sprouts indeed. I cut a massive chunk earlier and the descent in word count almost caused me to weep into my laptop. Tonight I seem to have worked my little brain to shreds and yet haven't gained a single word, just a page of (hopelessly inadequate) notes. In fact I#m pretty fried, I think it'll be one more tomato then off to bed. Good luck!

Hey Huxley - I take it from your board domination that you're in for a late one too? As for that phd, star trek, seriously? Wow.
And I thought that my linking psychiatry with food allergies (via genetics) was weird!

Hmm, sorry Wal, but the Bourne stuff just doesn't do it for me. Will he escape? Who is after him? Who indeed is he himself? ...... More to the point, do I actually care? Erm, not really. Rocky however, is retro gold. ADRIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

And I'm going to stick up for Juno, not as a massively insightful piece of social commentary, but just a nice offbeat film that I can enjoy. It fits a niche between worthy independent cinema and obvious Hollywood trash and I need that. Plus I LOVE Brenda in it, as a wicked stepmother myself it just eases my soul to see a decent character in that role. God bless that woman and her scrap book of dog photos.

Hope the writing and planning went well Sneaks. I haven't changed direction dramatically yet still appear to be berefit of literature and starting over on sections I thought I had well covered - oops.

Interesting thoughts Eska! I hadn't given pretty woman much thought (not since my dad let me watch it age 9 or 10) but through my night-fuddled brain I suspect that what you say is very true.

My most recent viewing was Invictus, the film about Mandela's use of the SA rugby team in uniting the country. Over-simplified and glory-heavy, but still enjoyable and humbling for all it's Hollywood. I would have enjoyed it more but for the moronic bumpkin behind me, who decided (as they always do) that everyone in the cinema had in fact paid to hear HER reciting the title poem at key moments - quite.

I fancy a bit of light relief this weekend though, I may re-watch Juno for some quirky happiness I think.

Hehe, full steam ahead Chrisrolinski!

Alpaca that's awesome progress! Go and enjoy your well-earned duvet time :-)

Anyone else up tonight, or am I riding the night train alone? (dear God don't let there be a guard like that one in Surrey who started showing me the porn on his phone).

I managed a pretty good day today but somehow still feel as if I haven't achieved enough. I'm finding it a real mental battle, rallying myself constantly throughout the day to keep going - and I've only just started the real writing. Still, I'm here and I WILL achieve more words before retiring for the night.

I agree DanB, watching JKyle is a definite sign of sickness!

Hope you get better soon ;-)

Six tomatoes and 605 words so far, time for lunch I think.
Now the real question is whether I drive to the shop to buy flour for pancakes, it is pancake day, after all ;-)