I worked loads yesterday. I left DB with Bean at 9am and stayed in the office all day, didn't offer at all to leave or stop working. Go me ;0)
I read lots and realised that I needed to sort my literature out, so put it all into themes - as many as I needed, rather than what I thought I needed for the lit review - and doing this made me realise that I have read a lot (44 sources and counting) just for this chapter and looking at the themes made me realise that that is the plan for my lit review! And it is a bit different than I was thinking before, when I was planning, but seeing it all in front of me it was obvious. Excellent stuff. I also wrote on a post-it note on each theme what the authors i had in it so far where and the date(s) of their work, so I can see at a glance where the notes for so-and-so might be, but also see what kind of lit I have been reading and how up to date my reading is in any theme. So I have a filing system of sorts basically, spread out over my desk and it will only get bigger and bigger. I made a decision that around 75 sources would be about right for the lit review, I don't know why I think this but it feels right. I think that is as many as I used in the whole of my MRes dissertation! And of course every other chapter has its own sources. Yep, around 75 should be about right. I have a lot of reading to do but at least I have an end in sight and am over halfway there hurrah!
So am feeling really quite good about work. Am working most days (during bean's nap)/nights (in front of the tele at the mo) and snatching other normal hours when I can. The CM is off this week and I am down South next week for my grandma-in law's 80th b'day and checking out the marquee peeps at our wedding venue. My mum is seeing it for the first time and am very excited! So that is another week I am not working, then we are back and i can work and then we are on holiday... So I work when I can - to be honest i think it is momentum that is important, rather than long, stretching hours. Although they definitely help ;0) I am about a month behind my new scheduale at the mo, but this is fine.
Am seriously thinking of moving South again. We need to move. So may as well go South if we can I wonder. Though DB's work is here so he would need to spend about a week a month up here with his clients. Though to have his friends around, and for us to have grandma and aunty to babysit here and there our lives could be so much different.
Wouldn't be a good idea to move before I have done the lit review though. I need the library really.
Anyway, I have a pie to put in the oven. Tonight am working, eating, whatching an Adam Curtis doc which is meant to be excellent (about how our choice and will is being subsumed by the internet and technology that acutally deprives us of freedom while pretending to give us more... yes, easygoing) then will be in bed by 10.30.
x J
I read lots and realised that I needed to sort my literature out, so put it all into themes - as many as I needed, rather than what I thought I needed for the lit review - and doing this made me realise that I have read a lot (44 sources and counting) just for this chapter and looking at the themes made me realise that that is the plan for my lit review! And it is a bit different than I was thinking before, when I was planning, but seeing it all in front of me it was obvious. Excellent stuff. I also wrote on a post-it note on each theme what the authors i had in it so far where and the date(s) of their work, so I can see at a glance where the notes for so-and-so might be, but also see what kind of lit I have been reading and how up to date my reading is in any theme. So I have a filing system of sorts basically, spread out over my desk and it will only get bigger and bigger. I made a decision that around 75 sources would be about right for the lit review, I don't know why I think this but it feels right. I think that is as many as I used in the whole of my MRes dissertation! And of course every other chapter has its own sources. Yep, around 75 should be about right. I have a lot of reading to do but at least I have an end in sight and am over halfway there hurrah!
So am feeling really quite good about work. Am working most days (during bean's nap)/nights (in front of the tele at the mo) and snatching other normal hours when I can. The CM is off this week and I am down South next week for my grandma-in law's 80th b'day and checking out the marquee peeps at our wedding venue. My mum is seeing it for the first time and am very excited! So that is another week I am not working, then we are back and i can work and then we are on holiday... So I work when I can - to be honest i think it is momentum that is important, rather than long, stretching hours. Although they definitely help ;0) I am about a month behind my new scheduale at the mo, but this is fine.
Am seriously thinking of moving South again. We need to move. So may as well go South if we can I wonder. Though DB's work is here so he would need to spend about a week a month up here with his clients. Though to have his friends around, and for us to have grandma and aunty to babysit here and there our lives could be so much different.
Wouldn't be a good idea to move before I have done the lit review though. I need the library really.
Anyway, I have a pie to put in the oven. Tonight am working, eating, whatching an Adam Curtis doc which is meant to be excellent (about how our choice and will is being subsumed by the internet and technology that acutally deprives us of freedom while pretending to give us more... yes, easygoing) then will be in bed by 10.30.
x J
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