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Alpacalover
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04 October 2009 22:52
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The nocturnal workers' thread
User: Alpacalover - 04 October 2009 22:52
Thanks Bilbo, I know I do need time off, I just feel I had friday afternoon and all day saturday and I really should have done work today as in lab all week and then following week will be lesson planning for my first lecturing!! :(
So sorry to hear you've been ill this weekend, glad you're better now though.
I hope your meeting goes well with supervisor! I think i'm going to be having an interesting week! hopefully get some nice results for 4th chapter, and going to try and write in evenings towards finishing discussion in 2nd one. But also find out about a job i went for interview for, have no idea whether i'm in with chance but its going to be a kind of life changing decision to make if offered it so trying to think about what i want to do! Don't want to leave them hanging and say, can you give me day or two to think about it!!
Too many things to think about and do and therefore should be getting on with it but instead just want to sit and stare at a blank wall!! :-s
anyway, thanks for nice message and get a good sleep tonight!
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BilboBaggins
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04 October 2009 22:43
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User: BilboBaggins - 04 October 2009 22:43
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but I feel guilty every time i'm not at my desk at the moment!!! I take weekends off to be honest. I need the rest, and don't want to put myself under too much pressure to be producing PhD work every day. And I did nothing useful this weekend. Apart from slept and was very very sick from Friday night until Saturday lunchtime. Feeling better now, but very weak. Have meeting with supervisor next week to discuss final changes to my thesis. So looking forward optimistically to doing more rewriting, and colouring in done suggestions with a highlighter pen! But for now it's more rest for me. Hope everyone else gets on ok.
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Alpacalover
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04 October 2009 22:31
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User: Alpacalover - 04 October 2009 22:31
Well, how pathetic have I been this weekend - VERY!!! managed to get final draft of intro to supervisor on friday before driving to manchester for gig - which was fab! then came back up road yesterday, and out for dinner iwth friends as our old uni mate was back from Norway for a week. Had lovely time but has left me totally shattered - not used to socialising these days! :) got up today eventually after just wanting to stay in bed all day! and have done NOTHING! did watch a whole weeks recap of come dine with me - no better than Xfactor really ;)
just thought, i'll check over my intro but not much point really as its gone to boss now! and its getting late, in lab all week and want to just go to bed! Maybe, like Eska I need to just call it a wasted day and look for tomorrow! but I feel guilty every time i'm not at my desk at the moment!!!
anyway, just really wanted to get it off my chest and hope others are doing better and had good productive weekend!
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Alpacalover
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02 October 2009 00:40
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User: Alpacalover - 02 October 2009 00:40
I do like autumn really - just mainly if i'm inside and warm, its just the closeness of winter that bothers me! :( SAD is awful and it gets me every year!
ANYWAY - I am off to bed!
Introduction, final section DONE
aims and hypothesis - DONE :p
hopefully nice long sleep and a final edit, check references tomorrow and off to boss before a night away from home!
ahhhhhh!
hope rest of night successful for anyone still up!
night night x
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BilboBaggins
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02 October 2009 00:17
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User: BilboBaggins - 02 October 2009 00:17
Quote From teek:
On which note.... does anyone else feel that they're a little bit gleeful about the arrival of the darker nights? I seem to be delighted with the crisp air and minight skies just now, I wonder if it's just an extension of the nightly peace I've taken to. Autumn is my favourite time of year. Darkening nights and crisp weather. Love it. I think it's partly a legacy of too many decades of school and university, with the new academic term always starting around now (at least on this side of the globe!) so it feels like a fresh start. But I also prefer the weather, and find it a big relief from the summer which can be too hot for me.
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Sue2604
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01 October 2009 23:05
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User: Sue2604 - 01 October 2009 23:05
Yes, I'm here too, altho have to go and spend the morning in the library for RA work. Would rather finish a conference paper - so close, but the last bits are taking so long! But had a good day yesterday, was actually a bit inspired and threw out some of concepts of my sup's which I don't think work - so, am being brave too!
Days are getting longer here - aahhh!! Which also means it's going to get stinking hot where I am, which I hate. But we're having gorgeous spring days at the moment.
Good luck with your nocturnal studies everyone.
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Alpacalover
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01 October 2009 22:24
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User: Alpacalover - 01 October 2009 22:24
Thanks Bilbo, yeah was good interview experience - and i always appreciate that as i'm really not confident at all!
well done you, a big gold star :) you deserve a night off and an early bed then! I really hope you sleep well!
I'm away tomorrow so be back sat night/sunday!
Good luck for a weekend of work
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BilboBaggins
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01 October 2009 22:14
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User: BilboBaggins - 01 October 2009 22:14
Glad the interview went ok Alpacalover. Even if you don't go for the job it's good experience to have gone through the interview.
I'm not planning on being a nocturnal worker tonight because I managed a double whammy of editing last night and am very knocked out today - even more than usual! So plan to just sleep hopefully. Will be back the night after.
Good luck to everyeone else out there.
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Alpacalover
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01 October 2009 22:09
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User: Alpacalover - 01 October 2009 22:09
Evening all, i'm on the midnight train tonight! choo choo! :)
Interview was ok thats Teek, didn't get much sleep again unfortunately but managed to struggle may way through it, did my demonstration ok and then they quizzed me for an hour!!!!! not sure how my answers were but they kept asking me stuff so can't have been too bad!? find out next week so will keep ya'll posted!
just having cup of coffee and some chocolate, read afew papers and going to tackle this last section - hopefully! I keep saying that then finding new and interesting stuff and trailing that too!!! fingers crossed by time i go to bed tonight intro is ready for final edit over weekend!
Hope Bilbo and Sue are doing ok too tonight!?
I'm not sure about the inspired by crisp nights i'm afraid, I just see it as the start of coldness, increased heating bills and my SAD onset! but must try and stay optimistic...... :)
Best of luck for the midnight run folks......over and out
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teek
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01 October 2009 21:54
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User: teek - 01 October 2009 21:54
Sounds like a productive night was had by all!
Alpacalover, how did the interview go? Hope you got enough sleep to sparkle :)
This thread has inspired me, I've worked all day anyway but I'm going to tackle some papers and notes before bed just to enjoy the night hours.
On which note.... does anyone else feel that they're a little bit gleeful about the arrival of the darker nights? I seem to be delighted with the crisp air and minight skies just now, I wonder if it's just an extension of the nightly peace I've taken to.
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Alpacalover
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01 October 2009 09:44
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User: Alpacalover - 01 October 2009 09:44
Hi Sheena and Bilbo!
Well done B on a good hours productive editing! :) hope you get some good sleep!
Thanks Sheena, just chilling out before interview, slept even worse last night so not feeling great, feel like I cant even think so the interview is going to be pretty funny I feel! complete lack or recall, but hopefully when i relax into it all will be fine!
Sorry to hear you got a cold, remember getting better has to be your number one priority! keeping going through it will only tire you more and slow your immune system! get rest and keep calm and you'll be back on the road ASAP! :)
come to campus library for first time in ages - charging £1.20 for a cup of tea - when did students become so rich!!! better go to cash machine if i want some caffeine before interview!! :(
have a good day all! (up)
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BilboBaggins
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01 October 2009 01:50
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User: BilboBaggins - 01 October 2009 01:50
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Checking in. Trying to work through some more pages of thesis final draft feedback. So more comma adding, word removing etc. Just doing the easy changes for now. Will worry about the trickier issues later.
EDIT: And signing out an hour later. Got through another 25 or so pages of detailed edits, so that's good progress for now. Sleep time calls though.
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sheena
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30 September 2009 23:50
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User: sheena - 30 September 2009 23:50
Another night...not feeling great though, have a bad cold. Only going to sort out few things.
Good luck for the interview Alphacalover and keep going (up).
Teak, I feel the same about staying up whole night, the most productive and peaceful time of the day. Even if I don't plan any work, I do get something done compared to daytime when everyone seem to be making nothing but noises.
Today aim: Sort the contents page and bit of formatting, checking references
Yesterday-Editing chapter -DONE (following Lara's method) (up)
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Alpacalover
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30 September 2009 23:15
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User: Alpacalover - 30 September 2009 23:15
Thank you Sue, hugs just arrived and made me feel better :-)
I'm just about to wrap up for the night, i've managed to get most of what i wanted to get done today done, and if i can get my aims and hypothesis finished tomorrow i'll be happy for going away on friday!
yeah, I really like the job profile, unfortunately its just too much i think while trying to write. I feel just like you, i don't want my PhD dragging on,if it takes more time and i dont get to do it every day it'll get harder to keep going and get to viva stage, I want it fresh in my head to the day its over! Can't wait to feel like Dr Lara does right now!! but we'll be there soon - faster than we realise probably!
But i always give things my best shot so will go to interview and give my all and see how i get on, would be good to gauge my employability for that kind of job though, always a wee confidence boost!
So glad you saw your supervisor and got stuff sorted too, good to know you're feeling a bit better about things! Sorry, i just got your IM but think its bed time! :-( I'll get in touch tomorrow night and update on my progress! :)
Hope you have a good productive day!
KT xx
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Sue2604
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30 September 2009 22:19
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User: Sue2604 - 30 September 2009 22:19
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Got interview tomorrow and done no more prep since yesterday! its not til 11am tomorrow so hopefully manage to go over stuff in morning for it, but got to that stage of not caring? does that sound weird!? I think it probably does! but its full time and if i did get offered it i'm not sure i would take it as it would mean i wouldnt get much time to write and I really want done by xmas! whereas if i just stick to the part time hours i've now got lecturing I can stick to my plan and hopefully submit asap!!! so just going to go to interview and do my best and see what happens, no point stressing!???
sorry if i'm blabbery, i'm feeling very tired and teary and having one of my down days....
Hello Awww - hugs to you!! I've rallied and am OK, now it's your turn to be down :-( One day we'll all be happy and productive together - when we finish!! It's horrible feeling overwhelmed - you've got a lot on at the moment, with lecturing, the thesis, and a job interview. Intervews are hideously stressful, they're so unnatural. But you're right not to care so much about it! It sounds like you don't really want it - and at this point, spending the next 6 mths finishing the thesis is the most important thing. Other jobs will come up, and yeh, working full-time while finishing would be really hard. So, be confident, bluff your way through the interview, and good luck! But don't be too down if you don't get it. One step at a time. Get the interview done, then onto the next bit of the thesis. Make sure you relax before the interview too - do some breathing exercises to calm yourself. We'll asll get there! And not workin in a lab, I can imagine they're creepy! Been watching too many horror movies...
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