I am back at work properly today which is relief after a couple of weeks of days off! Two bank holidays in a row eek!
Am still reading reading away... I have given myself this month and June to read and July to write up. I really hope I can do it. Tomorrow i am going to the library to refresh my books which is a good sign ;0)
We are booking a holiday for the first week in June... cannot WAIT! Lazy time, sunshine, too much food hurrah! I bought a work book (foucault bien sur) and a holiday reading book today. weeee.
Oh and I had my last funding payment today! Oh, the end of an era. Even tho of course I am still classed as funded, it is nice to not actually be in reciept of any money and so the guilt of how much (little) I am working can lessen, and hopefully my productivity increase (oh the paradox). My motivation is to get this all done for my wedding next year (which is when my time is up anyway) and then I can be a PhD, then have a wedding and honeymoon (oh I am mooning over my honeymoon already! I am going to gorge on some vulgar all inclusivity methinks. Just this once, forgive me ;0)) and then get up the stick again and concentrate on my family.
I am so very fortunate that my boyo can afford to keep me while I finish my PhD. Although I don't see it like that; rather I am a full time Mum now who does a PhD on the side. I say this because I know for a fact that without bean i would have finished by now and not need the extra year (and be a newly wed - we planned to marry early this month all those years ago...) and if I had, I would be working part time but with the bean this is impossible - it makes far more sense for me to be at home with him.
Anyway, must get back to it. Am sorting out my reading list - I have actually got a folder now in which to keep all my reading lists so I can remember what I have read, haven't yet read and keep all the scribblings of new refs that I find along the way. Complicated business! I dread sorting out my refs for the bibliography... No, I shall be organised and do it meticulously as I go along, starting with the lit review.
Talking of the lit review I am having a can't see the wood for the trees moment... I mean, what *is* a lit review?! I can't remember what I am meant to write!
But generally i am in rude health - the Big Chat I had with myself the other week where I realised it was going to take me as long as it takes me to finish this thesis, and that i shouldn't worry about what others are thinking (i.e Sup and DB) until they make it my concern (they haven't and won't it was me being paranoid) and should just get on with it. And maybe, just maybe, enjoy it again :0)
x J
Am still reading reading away... I have given myself this month and June to read and July to write up. I really hope I can do it. Tomorrow i am going to the library to refresh my books which is a good sign ;0)
We are booking a holiday for the first week in June... cannot WAIT! Lazy time, sunshine, too much food hurrah! I bought a work book (foucault bien sur) and a holiday reading book today. weeee.
Oh and I had my last funding payment today! Oh, the end of an era. Even tho of course I am still classed as funded, it is nice to not actually be in reciept of any money and so the guilt of how much (little) I am working can lessen, and hopefully my productivity increase (oh the paradox). My motivation is to get this all done for my wedding next year (which is when my time is up anyway) and then I can be a PhD, then have a wedding and honeymoon (oh I am mooning over my honeymoon already! I am going to gorge on some vulgar all inclusivity methinks. Just this once, forgive me ;0)) and then get up the stick again and concentrate on my family.
I am so very fortunate that my boyo can afford to keep me while I finish my PhD. Although I don't see it like that; rather I am a full time Mum now who does a PhD on the side. I say this because I know for a fact that without bean i would have finished by now and not need the extra year (and be a newly wed - we planned to marry early this month all those years ago...) and if I had, I would be working part time but with the bean this is impossible - it makes far more sense for me to be at home with him.
Anyway, must get back to it. Am sorting out my reading list - I have actually got a folder now in which to keep all my reading lists so I can remember what I have read, haven't yet read and keep all the scribblings of new refs that I find along the way. Complicated business! I dread sorting out my refs for the bibliography... No, I shall be organised and do it meticulously as I go along, starting with the lit review.
Talking of the lit review I am having a can't see the wood for the trees moment... I mean, what *is* a lit review?! I can't remember what I am meant to write!
But generally i am in rude health - the Big Chat I had with myself the other week where I realised it was going to take me as long as it takes me to finish this thesis, and that i shouldn't worry about what others are thinking (i.e Sup and DB) until they make it my concern (they haven't and won't it was me being paranoid) and should just get on with it. And maybe, just maybe, enjoy it again :0)
x J
2 comments:
I hope you don't expect to be able to concentrate on your PhD once you start planning the wedding! I'm getting married soon and it's all I can think about! serious dip in PhD productivity...but the most exciting time :-)
Sarah x
hehehe! Congrats Sarah!
Nah, am doing ok actually! My course deadline is on the 31 May next year and I get wed on the 2nd June ;0) So the PhD will absolutely completely and utterly be finished and I am going on the holiday of my LIFE (for four days, then back to collect my toddler for a more ahem, child-oriented holiday!). My Mum is stressing at me to get on with wedding stuff and I am telling her to step back because I have to do Uni work!
Good luck with your preparations and I am sure you will have a fab day!
x J
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