So much to do, so little time

I'm sorry to say, but today marks my 4 1/2 year mark of being a PhD student. And I am even sorrier to say today that my scholarship expired. So, I'm going to be 'roughing it' until I can find any sort of employment, the search for which is still being unfruitful.

I submitted my nomination of examiners form this week, so that should be on its way to the GRS if it is not already there. Of course, the morning after that was submitted, my supervisor flung a whole heap of changes to one of the early chapters at me. This may impact later chapters as well, especially the names for objects I refer to throughout the thesis...definitely not happy about this. This should have been dealt with months ago, not now.

I do however feel I have a team working for me. SupA, as I said above, is reading through and sending me comments. I am also reading through and commenting on my own work. I was also fortunate enough to get a proof-reader. They are a fellow student, with the deal that I repay the favour later on when he is about to submit. And of course, there's SupB. SupB has had 3 of my chapters sitting on their desk for quite a while now, but they don't seem to want to read them. My guess is that they are just going to wait until I am forced to make changes to those chapters myself, so that they can claim that what they have is obsolete. Not really fair - but at least that's one less set of changes to have to integrate into the whole at the moment. Though obviously, they will be required very soon.