Dissertation Days Five & Six

After an utterly unproductive, but nonetheless lovely weekend (more on that another day), I went back to school Monday with what I hoped would be a renewed vigour. Unfortunately, it was more of a renewed lethargy, and Monday ended up being, while still productive, not my best day ever, at around 2k written. 

However, Charles and Camille stopped by to look at the music facilities or something (I wasn't that invested in the entire affair) so we took a break to do some royals watching.

Charles waved at us as he walked past, and asked us if we were having a tea break. We laughed and said yes to be polite. The entire thing was very weird. I don't get royalty. But hey. I got in my obligatory "I live in Britain hey look royal people" moment.

The day ended when I hit 10k and decided that was good enough, a fact that was really just cemented when I mentioned this to Becky and she kinda slid off her chair and then curled up under the table.

In unrelated news, I haven't been straightening my hair the last couple of days, instead giving the natural curls a chance to exert themselves for once.

I'm not quite sure about this yet.

Today was a far more productive day, and though I still have the majority of my conclusion, and parts of my methodology left to write, I finished the survey analysis and printed off a first rough draft. Today was gorgeous, and I'm hoping tomorrow will be the same - as I'm (however temporarily) back on paper, its the perfect chance to return to my old starbucks & sunshine in the morning routine!

Jordan's birthday party is tomorrow night, and I'm also going to a matinee of Rise of the Planet of the Apes with Becky, Jack, and Ali, so it is unlikely there will be a post going up tomorrow. Just fyi. 

Dissertation Day Four

Today was a bit of a lazy day - Becky and I had discussed the idea of skipping out early for a picnic in the Meadows, but the weather didn't end up cooperating. However, it still managed to be a bit of a lazy day. I did get around a thousand words written, bringing up my total to somewhere around 8k. I'll be taking the weekend off to apply for jobs and take a break from thinking about the dissertation, and then will hopefully finish up the rough draft next week. I will have a lot of editing to do, so I'm hoping to finish up the rough draft quickly to leave myself lots of time to refine the essay. Plus, once I've finished the rough draft I won't have to spend every day working on it any more, giving me more time for both my photoshop practice (which has been depressingly absent this week) and for job hunting.

I'm also still struggling in figuring out the best way to present my survey results in an Appendix. Technically, all I have to do is include them, so I could simply throw them in the way they appear on the google form and call it a day, but that is rather haphazard, and I would rather make it more organized; however, the current system I came up with would result in me having an appendix approximately 600 pages long, which isn't particularly feasible. Hopefully I will come up with something over the weekend!

In unrelated news, I got the sides of my head trimmed today.

Five Happy Days

Lets do this quick and dirty.  

Sunday. Stopped at Waitrose on my way home to harass Becky at work. Bought ice cream. Multitasking ftw.

Monday. Did laundry. Cleaned my room. Did some work, then napped a lot. Was feeling really sick.

Tuesday. Gorgeous sunny day at Luath. Spent all night working on school stuff. Very busy, still sick.

Wednesday. Insanity. Printed off all our work, submitted our final group portfolio, our group buisness plan, our individual essays, and our packaged disks with the books. Still more work to do but I couldn't be prouder of everyone. Went to bar to celebrate. Got a pot of tea. Was mocked. Still sick.

Thursday. Busy, second-last day at Luath. Went to launch of new book at Blackwell's, enjoyed being surrounded by books. Also showing off my nails. Still sick. Almost done.

(Real posts will return soon, promise. I'm almost out of the rough of it. There is a light at the end of the tunnel).

In other news, and as most of you may have heard already, I'm heading home! Thats right, as of Tuesday I will be officially back on my native Canadian soil for 24 days!