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(a small diversion - has anyone else ever confused the beginnings of the songs ''Under Pressure'' by Queen and ''Ice Ice Baby'' by Vanilla Ice? 'Cause I have...) Well, I've just finished a meeting with my supervisors. The first piece of news was that one of our potential examiners has left on summer holidays (he's from the northern hemisphere) ...

Whilst I appear to have signed up for a long stint of countless reworkings of my thesis this year, all in the name of giving it such a high quality style that it must have come out of the top journal in the world, it seems others can get away with not paying much attention to their work at all. No, I'm not talking about other students here at UWA. ...

...there is now not a question. It's not to be. Let me explain. This is my latest gripe about the writing style of my supervisors, which hence affects what writing style I'm allowed to have in my thesis. Apparently, I'm not allowed to use any conjugation of the verb ''to be'' before an equation. Here's an example to clarify things. In quite a lot ...

During the last few days, I've been busy addressing the comments of my supervisors regarding a few chapter drafts. I'm pleased to report that I have only one of these such drafts still to attend to. It's also pleasing that the technical side of things has basically been sorted out, and the main issues now are those of style and formatting. Having ...