Day 23

More progress!! I've gotten through the boring part of my current chapter, sorta. Methods are now complete. The results and discussion portion should have lots of nice photos. :) Wow, dare I be optimistic and say this chapter will get done early next week? Or reaaaaally optimistic and say this weekend?

Day 22

Same old, same old. At least I made some progress today.

Day 21

Took this weekend to recoup a bit. I think I feel better. I finally exercised. Good stuff. Put in about half a page of text today.

Day 19

Today was a low day for thesis writing. It all seems so pointless. This current chapter is just pointing out to me what was not achieved and how lame it all was/is. I stopped pursuing this a few years back but I guess I'm supposed to include it.

If I didn't know so many Drs. I would think that

1. this is impossible
2. this is pointless
3. this is a character building exercise that you're supposed to suck at

Oh wait, I still think 2. and 3. are true when applied to mediocre scientists like me. Sigh.

I find it ridiculously difficult to be optimistic about The Thesis.

Day 18

Another chapter has begun. This chapter covers work I haven't touched in over three years. I hope it will still be coherent. On the plus side, part of this chapter is coming from my thesis proposal. Which was 20 pages of lies, er, optimism. That no one read because my PDF maker was screwy. No one told me they couldn't read it until the day of my proposal. During which my advisor didn't even show up for because I was less important than a 4-star general.

I'm not bitter. Really.

Day 15

Well, this chapter is more or less finished. I should say less. The English sounds terrible. It's so embarrassing, but I'm glad I got it all out. There are, of course, some holes and filling in holes is going to take forever. 80/20 rule. GAAAAH.

Looks like I'm going to need to start planning out another chapter. The data I was hoping for from this weekend didn't work out. Bleh. So now lab will be busy redoing stuff better.

Let's see, 15.5 - 1 (TOC) single-spaced pages (with figures) for one chapter. I'm not complaining.

Looks like I need to use Microsoft Word's master-document-subdocument feature for the per chapter bibliography?

Day 14

Forgot to celebrate going to double digits. Yay! Okay.

In other news, chapter not done, but close. The cork to my Balvenie scotch snapped in half, so now it's covered with plastic wrap. I guess I'll have to finish it. Good thing scotch is my drink of choice.

How do I set up a separate bibliography for each chapter? I'm using Endnote. There must be a way to do this. Phyllis?