Quit moving the phinish line
In a period of Dave Hughes-inspired anger, I think I'm about to lose it. I have just received comments back from a large chapter, one which I thought was almost the best. Unfortunately, there are more than 85 things still wrong with it, according to my supervisor. All my hopes and dreams of being rid of this thing are continually shattered, and I am so far down in the dumps these days that I guess I couldn't find the top of the dumps without a map lol. What worries me is that I have to send my supervisor another chapter today, but I know it will be even worse than the one I just got back. I doubt there will be enough room for him to write down all the things he doesn't like about it. Thus, I really don't want to work on this next chapter (due to impending inevitable bad news), and I'm procrastinating about it. Every time I think I can see the finish line, it is picked up and moved away, just like what happened with the singer and the spotlight at Cirque du Soleil's Varekai, which I was lucky enough to see last night. I did partially regret going, though, because I spent a lot of the time worrying about my thesis. I cannot 'switch off', and I cannot seem to get out of here!
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About wayne.griffiths
I started at UWA in 1997, completing a Diploma in Modern Languages (Italian) in 1999. By 2001, I had completed a Bachelor of Computing and Mathematics degree with Honours. In 2002, I worked part-time in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. From 2003 to 2007, I studied for the qualification of PhD in Electrical Engineering at the Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute (WATRI). My thesis title is "On A Posteriori Probability Decoding of Linear
Block Codes over Discrete Channels", and it is currently under examination.