Ahhh, I can breathe again!
I have managed to do all the formatting necessary to make each chapter a 'new section' with page breaks (wtf - I dunno), and have got all page numbers sequential and starting from the intro still. The footnotes now all start anew at the beginning of each chapter. Thank GOD. It took me all morning to work that out (having never haerd of a page break for a start). (Actually, section breaks are fantastic as they seem to mean that when you fiddle with a chapter it only makes that chapter fiddled with rather than the whole doc. hurrah.)
Now I am doing my bibliography and IT IS WORKING. I was very worried about what endnote would let me do but it tunrs out I can edit by hand any ref I need to (some don't have the start of the title on for some reason so need to fix that) and move them around so I am just doing that. So now, no more brains are needed as far as I can see :)
I have four hours to plough on now, which is quite a lot, so I really hope to have it done or nearly done at least! Today is my little Beanie's last day in paid childcare too so we will both go and pick him up to say goodbye to his childminder and her family. We will stay in touch and go over for playdates but won't be the same will it?! And I am going to be an official stay-at-home mum as of tomorrow! Beanie starts nursery in Jan (but not properly until feb) so he will be around every day... which will be a shock considering he now goes to the childminder four days a week so I can work. He will be delighted tho, he is tired of going so often (bad mummy) as four days is a lot to a then two year old :( And he has outgrown the comforting one-to-oneness that was so fab when he was only one. He needs other kids, noise, big toys and playgrounds now! Is still sad tho. Particularly as the ONLY reason he ever went to the childminder's was so I could have time to do my PhD. Is the end of an era, and so poignant that it all happens at the end of a year! New Year, new beginnings...
So. I am back to it. Grr and yay in equal parts!
x J
I have managed to do all the formatting necessary to make each chapter a 'new section' with page breaks (wtf - I dunno), and have got all page numbers sequential and starting from the intro still. The footnotes now all start anew at the beginning of each chapter. Thank GOD. It took me all morning to work that out (having never haerd of a page break for a start). (Actually, section breaks are fantastic as they seem to mean that when you fiddle with a chapter it only makes that chapter fiddled with rather than the whole doc. hurrah.)
Now I am doing my bibliography and IT IS WORKING. I was very worried about what endnote would let me do but it tunrs out I can edit by hand any ref I need to (some don't have the start of the title on for some reason so need to fix that) and move them around so I am just doing that. So now, no more brains are needed as far as I can see :)
I have four hours to plough on now, which is quite a lot, so I really hope to have it done or nearly done at least! Today is my little Beanie's last day in paid childcare too so we will both go and pick him up to say goodbye to his childminder and her family. We will stay in touch and go over for playdates but won't be the same will it?! And I am going to be an official stay-at-home mum as of tomorrow! Beanie starts nursery in Jan (but not properly until feb) so he will be around every day... which will be a shock considering he now goes to the childminder four days a week so I can work. He will be delighted tho, he is tired of going so often (bad mummy) as four days is a lot to a then two year old :( And he has outgrown the comforting one-to-oneness that was so fab when he was only one. He needs other kids, noise, big toys and playgrounds now! Is still sad tho. Particularly as the ONLY reason he ever went to the childminder's was so I could have time to do my PhD. Is the end of an era, and so poignant that it all happens at the end of a year! New Year, new beginnings...
So. I am back to it. Grr and yay in equal parts!
x J
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