...that's the deadline I give myself today. Well, it's not really a today decision but it's today that I make it 'official' to myself.

What has been done so far?

1) Chapters 1 to 4 written and defended in the upgrade viva last December. These entail:
- Literature review
- Methodological considerations
- First 2 analyses
2) Chapter 5 written up - needs some revision though.
3) 2 conference proceedings + 1 book chapter published/accepted
4) 1 journal article drafted
5) several 'minor' things likes conferences, workshops, seminars, etc. ('minor' because in the thesis you only list publications!)

What still needs to be done?

1) Prepare a journal article to submit based on content of Ch. 3
2) Analyses 3 and 4 (no.3 currently on works) - these are huge, long text analyses..
3) Preparing journal article based on those 2 analyses
4) Writing up Chapters 6 and 7 based on those 2 analyses
5) 2 experiments (design done already)
6) Paper based on the experiments
7) Writing up Chapter(s) 8 (and 9?) based on the experiments
8) Revise the whole thing and submit

What else I need to do parallel to the PhD project?

Lead and largely run two more projects at my school - with related presentations, publications, follow-up design and fund raising.
Teaching diverse modules.
Spend weekends with my boyfriend.
Plan a possible new house.

The deadline of 13months from now is self-imposed, since this would be the minimum time allowed for part-time PhD at the university.

Feasible?? We'll see. But after 3 years of almost no contact with other PhD students (even though I followed this forum eagerly most of the time - and it helped me a lot!) I thought I could try to 'live' and share a bit more of this last period with other PhD-fellows!!

Hope you won't mind, it would be just great to have the chance to post here regularly and check on myself :P to see how I progress.

So here I start: 13months to go..

To start with: goals of today.

Extra PhD:

- Run an interview
- Preparare a final report of a project
- Do some project admin stuff


PhD:

- start writing paper for a conference in August
- continue preparing some material for exp.1

:-)

Let's go preparing the room for the interview...

Cheers