Illuminati-R-Us

When there's nothing else left, there's always that.

(General observation, I'm not talking about your thesis!)

Just as well you qualified your statement. (I've had to do a lot of editing on my draft to make sure unnecessary qualifications are omitted).

I'm finally meeting with my supervisor this Friday. Will he have comments on all my draft chapters by then? Time will tell.

Met the super this morning - he only had comments on 3 and a half of my 7 draft chapters. Bit more re-writing to do. Pressure is on.

So when do you suspect you will be saying, "I should have been working on my thesis."

Enzo wrote:So when do you suspect you will be saying, "I should have been working on my thesis."

In about 4 more weeks at this rate

Word count (excl appendices) has bounced back up to 39,608. The super still has 3 and a half draft chapters to give me feedback on.

Is there a liit to the word count?

ideally 35,000 - absolute upper limit 40,000

Next meeting with supervisor is next Friday. D-Day is approaching fast

Hope it goes well.

Newsflash - Managed to chop it back to 37,800 odd words before the meeting tomorrow.

Isn't that alsways nice, having to put the machete to the forest you yourself planted?

The meeting went well (if long-winded). I think I can see the finish line. I just need to keep lurching towards it.

Arneb wrote:Isn't that alsways nice, having to put the machete to the forest you yourself planted?

I prefer "Write drunk, edit sober". It also helps to have an editor you trust.

That's a nice one. I'll keep it in mind when I write my next objection against an insurance's hospital renumeration decision .

It is a good way to get round writer's block.

Apologies for the derail Tubes, well done.

Sniffle... I am so proud. Why I remember when he was just changing tubes in his Peavey. He's come so far...

I've started compiling the thesis chapters and appendices into one document now. Got up to Chapter 5 and Appendices for Chapters 1 through to 4 into it so far. And just doing that took two whole days (up to 120 pages ) so far. Still have Chapters 6 and 7 and the bulk of the appendices to put in (There are 10 appendices to Chapter 5 still to go in), and the contents, list of tables, figures etc, glossary, acknowledgements, abstract, etc. Submission deadline is end of next week.

My supervisor still hasn't given me feedback on the draft discussion and conclusion chapters (6 and 7). Got another meeting with him on Friday.

Spent the day feverishly plodding away at completing it. Met my supervisor at 3pm to go over his comments on the discussion and conclusion chapters, which I have to re-edit and add into the compiled document. They were the last draft chapters I was waiting for his comments on. Its the end of the day here and I'm knackered. I've taken leave from work for all of next week to finish it. Hopefully I'll have it finished in the next day or two and then I can have the rest of the week off. Fingers crossed.

We're rooting for you, man.

Totally with you, and we're sure you'll make it.

Can we read the thing once it gets finished?

Yeah,, just post it here in a thread.

Enzo wrote:Yeah,, just post it here in a thread.

lol

Or perhaps, post it as an attachment in PDF format.

Finishing compiling the final draft - 37,876 words excluding the prologue bits and appendices.

Got a few formatting issues to resolve. Then a couple more proof reads and try to crib it back to under 35,000 words. Nearly dunnit. Doesn't seem real