Day 45

I resized the y-axis of the graph. But, I would like to announce that I finished writing another chapter! Yeeehaw. I clink my scotch glass with my homemade donut.

What to tackle next? I'm still missing data for my other core chapter. :( I guess I could start word vomiting the last chapter, which is all fluff. Bleh.

Day 44

Darn. I wrote an entire subsection today and there's no change in the page length! If only I followed the suggestion for word count.... I guess it's about time that all those blank spaces from the oversized images not properly formatting should come back and get me.

I actually feel better now that I've written some more of the thesis. I think tomorrow, I should be able to finish the chapter! This is the intro chapter, so it shouldn't be hugely long. And I don't want to bore my reader or myself. Yeah right.

Day 40

Alright. I'm annoyed at myself. That flat line is ridiculously long. Today, I finished editing Chapter 4, which didn't change the length much. The file is a half page longer, though, because moving some paragraphs around affected the spacing around the images.

Anyhow, I think I need to start word vomiting again. Chapter 3 probably isn't ready to be vomited but why not give a shot at Chapter 1. Maybe it's also time to write some lame stuff like the Abstract and Acknowledgements. I kinda don't want to do acknowledgements because I'm so darn annoyed at my graduate career. Bleh.

Day 38

This is both depressing and embarrassing. It's not even day 40 and potential call-outs on my blog no longer motivate me. Well, I don't know, I guess. There haven't been that many call-outs. :P

The paper got over another step but is now languishing. No surprise. I'm too tired to fight that battle so I'm leaving it alone now.

On the plus side, the machines are all working again! I am collecting loads of data (it is what it is, I'll stop labelling data "good" and "bad") this week for my remaining data chapter of the thesis. And right, that second paper I'm supposed to write.

Although it may seem that I've not made progress on my thesis, I have in fact been editing Chapter 2. Gosh that was painfully slow. Surprisingly, I didn't end up cutting enough words to shorten the chapter. I guess I ended up adding them back to clarify statements.

Day 30

Flatlining on the thesis. Been

1. Taking holiday
2. Hacking out a lung
3. Working on finalizing my paper.
   

Day 26

Finally! I have word vomited two entire chapters of my planned five chapters. This is really amazing. Also, oddly, I have finally caught up in number of pages to the number of days since I began this thing. How sad. Only today I have reached 1 page per day.

Not to worry though. I'm going to take a break from writing new content to hopefully

1. get my darn paper submitted
2. edit the vomit of the 2 chapters

The page numbers will soon decrease....

Day 24

Today started horribly. I didn't even go to lab today because of a terrible headache. Ug. At least was able to continue moving forward.