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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:21 AM

Caveat

I've noticed many theses seem to include some kind of caveat in the preface or elsewhere early on. I've found I don't quite know where I sit with them, so here is a loose rambling on about exceptions and clauses... "Such-and-such is beyond the scope of
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:43 PM

I wrote almost 2000 words today. Happy dance!

It all started with me first being able to squeeze out a hundred words or so yesterday. I'm starting a new chapter so it's all weird and scary at the moment and I have no real structure to work with yet. As I agonised with the lack of existing structure,
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Friday, October 03, 2008 4:32 PM

Brief update

My family headed over to the US to meet relatives a few months ago, and a local newspaper published this article about their travels (the image quality isn't fantastic): The Great Michigan Tour of '08 On my thesis front: not much going on at the moment,
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Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:29 PM

Need to stay focused?

Behold, some advice on staying motivated on past/long term projects. The bit about writing-down-your-ideas has, in admittedly a different format and context, kickstarted me in my thesis work after four consecutive semesters of teaching/procrastinating.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008 6:02 PM

Oh my god, it's alive!

After briefly flirting with the idea of setting up at blogger, I've decided to revive my trusty Procrastinatrix. Perhaps if one day I really desperately want more people to read my insights and insipidity (is that a real word? it should be) I'll migrate,
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:19 PM

I'm back!

...but not yet in this time zone. I've been out of town for three months, of which six weeks were dedicated to sitting in libraries reading. I might get back into blogging soon. As soon as I figure out how to sleep during the nights.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:07 PM

Well, I think it's a good idea.

(Bear with me, it might take a while for me to reach my point.) *A while back there was some talk here on MRS about the viva/oral defence of theses and why it wasn't necessarily the best or easiest thing for Australian students (not least because we're
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Monday, October 08, 2007 11:02 PM

Status report

Now, just because I have failed miserably at staying away from the computer after 10pm doesn't mean I'm useless at all other pursuits. It's October the eighth and I have written over 6000 words, so i'm not doing too badly. I was perhaps a bit ambitious
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:01 PM

Personal Thesis Writing Blitz

Right. Project: write thesis. Sensible advice: break project down into smaller, more manageable bits. Create to-do list. Pledge: write one thousand words every day during October. Then make them make sense. Along the lines of NaNoWriMo , but with a thesis
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 4:43 PM

It's the little things that (I hope) count

Sky's post made a little inspiration kick me in the head: "Hey, how about you collect some tips and ideas on approaching research/work in a sensible way and actually apply them to your own life ?". This is also partly driven by a rather conscious effort
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:13 PM

Crazybusyaaaagh

That about says it. Tuesdays are my "running around being late for everything falling over myself tired because I haven't had time to eat" -day. This is really just a quick update to inform anyone who reads this blog that I am, in fact, still alive and
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:14 PM

All the Wonderful Things I've Done

It has been a while since I posted properly, methinks, so I thought I should perhaps give a bit of an update on Being Me. Teaching The semester is in full swing. Tuesdays are exceptionally busy - I have a Limina meeting at 11, and because I'm not organised
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Monday, August 06, 2007 4:43 PM

Do the Happy Dance!

I gave my second-semester lecture today, hurraah for me! It was a two-hour long lecture-workshop, where interspersed with lecture-y bits the students discuss particular topics in small groups. Overall I think it went okay, still speaking a bit fast I
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:58 PM

A Day in the Life: Red Eye

Well, after some computer problems and brain malfunctionings I stopped work and any pretensions that I was being productive around five. At sevenish, after Ben had popped home quickly before fencing, I started listening to a radio discussion on Kaurismaki,
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:04 PM

A Day in the Life: Tea break

Well, not that I'm having tea yet, but plan to, as soon as I send this off. So far I have, of course, done nothing about my thesis. I have instead been doing some research (finding articles but not actually reading them) for my teaching research project,
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