Hi everyone,

Glad everyone had a good day yesterday.
Celesmai : Glad you enjoyed your class, and hope today goes really well
Lara: Well done for getting your aim 1 finished!! Brilliant! Hope you enjoy the concert tonight.

My aims for today : Chapter 6!
Am off tomorrow as i have to get a load of references so making a day of it in London so might not get a chance to post. So if not hope everyone has a brilliant day tomorrow and see you Friday! (crikey another week nearly gone!!!!!!!!)

PS sorry about all the little mistakes in this post, am getting a bit tired!

Hi,

I have to have each chapter planned out in detail, then i write a first draft, then a second before then changing it all again!! I don't tend to write random stuff either but work on each chapter, so not sure which one i am!!!

Also,

Celesmai, great news about meeting your aims for the day, well done Also, hope you have a wonderful time at your first antenatal class, how exciting!! Hope it goes really well.

Lara : hope your day has gone well, and you are the one who always cheers me up too!!! your posts give me a lot of encouragement so thanks ever so much.
See everyone tomorrow!!!

Hi everyone!

Well, i am back eating my beloved chocolate so i must be feeling fully better now!! As for the aims, the chocolate was defintely needed as i haven't quite met my aims. What are i talking about!1 Haven't quite met them means i have hardly touched the surface!!! Anyway, i am going to re-evaluate my aims, maybe i was being a little unrealistic! Anyway, at least i did start chapter 6! Oh well, will come back again tomorrow, and keep going with it! New aims = aim to get chapter 6 finished by Friday!!!

Hi Everyone,

Another day, another dollar as they say!!!! Hope everyone had a good day yesterday. Well done Lara for tackling your stats, you are doing so well. Keep going and before you know it you will have it finished. Your doing so well.
As for me, aims for today:

Chapter 6 (changes and corrections - all day)

Have a great day!!

Hi All,

Celesmai : I'm really sorry to hear your gran is ill. My thoughts are with you through what must be a really difficult time. Try to stay strong and make sure you are looking after yourself. It might sound like a silly thing to say but when my grandad was really ill and i was trying to be strong for my mum and dad i couldn't eat or sleep and these are so important.

Lara: Hope you have had a good day today. Your posts are so encouraging and you are right that we should forget last week. It certainly sounds like both of us had a rubbish week!!
Anyway, as i am still not 100 % i am finishing for today. I managed to complete my aims!!!!!! Hopefully it will continue all week (fingers crossed!!) Hope everyone has a great evening and see you all tomorrow!!!!

Hi all,

Sorry i haven't posted for a while either only have been ill with a virus, hence spent most of last week in bed! Anyway feeling better now and am going to forget last week and try and get on with some work this week (only have 4 weeks left to meet my deadline!). Anyway, todays aims:

Sort out all my figures for chapters 3,4,5 and 6.

Lara: Great to hear from you and don't you worry about last week either, that's in the past and sometimes it is good to have a few days off as you come back more refreshed!

Hope everyone has a great week!

I also need to do a few more figures on the computers at work which are a lot quicker than my poor little home one!
Anyway so aims for tomorrow (in case i don't get a chance to post from work)

: Meeting supervisor (10 am)
: Finish chapter 4 (again!!!)
: Meeting post-doc (3pm)
: Sort out some more figures!

Hope everyone has a good rest of today and also tomorrow!!!!
Happy writing!!!!!!!!!!

Hi
What a great idea to have 10 min breaks throughout the day. I have been trying to do long hours without a break recently and then wonder why my brain goes to mush! Also i think it is definitely more productive to have mini-breaks as you are fresher for the periods of writing. Tomorrow, i am going to give this a try so thanks for sharing this Lara, really sounds like a great idea!!! As for today, am going to stop working on chapter 4. I have not quite made my aims as i haven't finished it but as i have a couple of meetings tomorrow i need to have a tea break and then finish my notes for this. Then i think i will call it a day: am still feeling quite tired! Anyway tomorrow i have a meeting with my sup and then also one of the post-docs as i asked them for advice and they are getting back to me tomorrow.

PS Wish i could help with the stats but i don't know anything about stats at all and am in awe of people who understand such things. To be honest generally i am rubbish at anything maths related at all and think it is great you have the ability to tackle such things. Wish i more mathematically minded!!!

Hi!

Well, so much for my early start!!! The alarm went off at 7 am, i hit the snooze button and at half 11 i still have not started anything!! Anyway, will try now to start and my aim for today is again work on my dreaded chapter 4!!!
Lara : Well done for even getting a little bit of your aim 1 done yesterday, especially with having to sort out your sup emails and having to re-think your plans. Getting anything done at all is brilliant so well done!

Right, i must find some motivation!! Wish i could buy some!! Anyway hope everyone has a good day!

I also know what you mean about feeling you should be working on lots of chapters at once! I also have this problem. I feel like i should be getting stuff done on all of them!! I definitely think though that focussing on one at a time is better, although i still have problem doing this and then end up not getting much done on any of them!!! Will try to do one at a time in future!!!
Anyway, well done again on how you have dealt with your sup emails and hope you have a really good and better day tomorrow

Hi all,

Well after a slow start, just managed to finish my aims but have loads to do tomorrow so am going to have to start early i think!
Chantal: It's great you have joined the forum, hope you had a good day today.

Lara: Sorry to hear that both your sup are going to be away. What a complete and utter pain. I definitely think you should seek out the 3rd sup. I understand you might not want to do this as you are writing etc but could you mention all this to an HR person or a personal tutor type person? I don't think it is very fair on you that they are both going to be away and maybe HR or somebody else could help with this? You have really impressed me though with how you are going to tackle this issue. Writing your list and arranging to contact both sup soon is great. You should be really proud with how you are sorting this out and fingers crossed with the meeting with both sup.

Hi

Yeah, i will offically be "terminated" on 30 the September 2008 if my thesis is not in!!!!! In my mind i can see Arnold Schwarzenegger coming to get me on that date if i haven't finished!!!!!!!!!
Your deadlines sound great, having a saftey net of a week is a brilliant idea! Hope you don't mind but i will also aim for this too. Having that extra week would be great, especially in terms of checking through stuff etc.
Hope you have a good day (and watch out for the terminators!!)