Well, after feeling insanely sleepy for a good few hours there, at some point something kicked in and I have powered through to 10pm and my methods section is pretty much 95% complete!!!
The intro is about 75% after yesterday’s efforts - held back by the very late-stage discovery of a key paper that throws a whole bunch of things out and I have to incorporate into the intro and discussion. So I’m going to have to prioritise reading that, but…
…my discussion section is a total shambles.
shambles rambles
I really have neglected it completely and it’s just a bunch of half-finished sentences and disorganised dot points. Really, this is the important bit of the paper so I shouldn’t be rushing it, but at this point I’m going to have to summarise a lot of it as:
- Wow, the results of A, B and C were really obvious! just like X and Y said!
- But these things weren’t so great, possibly because of the phenomenon described in Z
- Still you should totally use C because A and B alone aren’t enough
- Also here is a scenario model which proves my point
- But also it has 35930940249 assumptions lol
- Future research could address all of that, but anyway, at least this thing gets the ball rolling
- kthxbai
I think my game plan for tomorrow is to seriously flesh out the discussion section, references be damned, and get the main points/flow of discussion correct. Because I simply won’t have anything even remotely submittable without that. THEN I can get into that stupid paper and figure out how much I need to wedge in and try and finish that remaining 25% of the intro…
Sigh. I was hoping I’d be done by end of Monday but I’ll have to accept spending my birthday still working on this stupid thing. If I can finish by the end of Tuesday at least then I can luxuriate!
I am just like 😐 at your analysis of how you work and of your work.
pretty awesome
at least this thing gets the ball rolling
I think this is the key, yes? To get into a flow state.
Good night all ❤️
Everyones having a good time lol
You know that each of those is a cat seat. 🥁=🐈⬛🪑
Nail sharpeners.
Way ahead of you. The studio door now stays closed when I’m not in there lol
😧
This is perfect. You can practice and the royalty doesn’t get disturbed
🤣🤣🤣
Went to the zoo with Minipeelers and Mr P. We are trying to do a “family activity” together every weekend; so far things have been quite civil really. Saw the meerkats, seals, lions, Australian section, lizards and dingoes. Tried to see the animal that smells like hot buttered popcorn (Binturong; sounds like an Indonesian beer and it looks shattered, like it spent far too much time with extended family or small children, but it really does smell like popcorn!) but being a master of camouflage it could not be seen. I wouldn’t want to be seen either if I was an animal in the wild that smelled so deliciously edible!
The popcorn scented Binturong we didn’t see.Then I bought myself a tshirt of Fry saying “shutup and take my money!”
The Binturong and the Sun Bear could have drinking sessions together
Another curious looking animal, to be sure. It looks occasionally like a human wearing a costume of it at a dodgy Chinese zoo
Clearly not a happy soul. Reminds me of too many Monday mornings.
aww, he looks like a wizard
Lake pretty.
Wow!!
Wow. That’s an incredible photo shot.
I rode up to the water tower again yesterday and cutting across the hills is very doable. The park construction could be a blocker at times but there are still other options for me to try out.
good night everyone , sweet dreams 😘
The Winner Takes It All by Meryl Streep in Mumma Mia forever on repeat
it seems to never end
Sky pretty, been a while since a really nice sunset.
It’s taken a couple of weeks for the dust from that volcano in Indonesia to reach us I reckon. I remember how pretty the sunsets were after the Mt Pinatubo eruption.
I thought it was dust from the Central Australian drought?
Could be that too. High altitude dust is still high altitude dust.
I see pretty pinks.
The stars were sparkling last night too.
So pretty!
Question: Do you eat at the kitchen table or in the lounge room or other?
We eat at the table but tonight I was a rebel and ate in the lounge room.
I try to make a point of everyone eating at the table together now with the kids. There are occasions that’s not the case but they’re few and far between fortunately
My dining table (which takes up a quarter of the lounge room) is usually half covered in craft stuff and school stuff because there’s nowhere else to put it, so there’s room for a couple of people to sit at the other end. There’s also the couch, where the Minipeelers usually sit for meals. Mr P lays on his bed (in the next room) and eats dinner on a tray. It sounds weird but we are all no more than a few metres from each other. I don’t invite people over because I don’t want people to see how I live.
I was meant to have friends over last night but they cancelled and I’m glad because my kitchen looked like a bomb had gone off. It’s all better today.
Don’t be too harsh on yourself. You’re a working mum who puts her family first. You’re doing great in my book. 🙂
Thankyou! 🙂 I tell myself it won’t always be this way, and one day we will have an actual whole house to live in (or I will buy an apartment or regional home and piss off) but at the moment we’re living in a space that was built for one elderly person.
Our big table is currently hosting a lego build, towels waiting to be folded and a tub of cake decorating stuff from me decorating my mother’s birthday cake. There was still enough room for the three of us to eat dinner though.
I dine in the East Wing conservatory.💅
With the family or just you and the butler?
hehe.
We have one table between the kitchen and lounge so it works out well. MissGod takes her meals in her room because she has Misophonia.
YL won’t eat with us if there’s lemons involved because of the way the man sucks on them like an orange.
She can hear miso being added???
Yeah that’s a funny one but it’s actually problematic and mentally exhausting condition for her. We are lucky she can deal with it enough to lead a semi normal life so far.
The last time I lived in a house that was large enough - my last sharehouse - there was no kitchen table, but there was a small dining room (with dining table) and a lounge room (couches and fire). I usually ate on the dining table unless I felt like staring into the fire of a cold evening. Occasionally, I would eat in my room if I was working hard on uni/work.
As a kid I used to hate eating at a table. I’d always eat in front of the computer or TV
Having the option to sit in front of a fire would be awesome.
I’m a bachelor. Loungeroom couch. I don’t even have a dining table 🤣
😂
We eat at the table. The table is far to big for the space since we did a kitchen renovation but I love it so it’s squished in a corner.
Dining table but not formal or anything 😊
I have a gully kitchen and at the end sits my table and chairs. Technically that part is a dining room because it has carpet but there’s no wall separating the two.
Usually I just sit on the couch. I use the dining table if I have guests or if I’m eating soup.
I need one of those plastic baby bibs that catch food in them so I can eat sausage rolls on the couch.
Usually on the couch watching tv.
got a bunch of cds from the opshop last week and this is my first opportunity to rest and listen
an old Joe jackson, some Diana Krall, George Michael, Josh Groban, sound track to monsters ball, just grabbed what interests me
i do like this joe jackson song, saw it live many years ago
We went to the burlesque show for our Anniversary last night. There was a best dressed prize so I told my girlfriend to find something she’s never had a chance to wear and dress as gay as you can.
My logic was you dress up extravagantly as you can because there will either be someone more dressed up as you, or you win a prize.
And she won!
She felt overdressed because most of the crowd was just old people, but that meant she was the clear winner, so she had a good time and it made the night a bit more special
Ooh! Love a good show off event, so few ops otherwise.
I figure every woman has at least one piece of clothing they haven’t worn yet because they haven’t found the occasion, and this was the chance to finally break something out
What prize did she win?
She got a skincare package from some brand sponsoring the event. We’ll have to see if its any good
Well done!
Alright, after some drama and use of a broomstick (not by me…) sox was bundled into her carrier and all her bits and pieces taken away. Made sure to eat something, finished up all the other house chores, stopped for an existential panic moment, then went to the laundromat and dried a huge load, and now I’m parked at the office willing myself to attack the method section (it needs to be dramatically shorter and replaced with some diagrams that I have on hand). I picked the easiest bit to do today because I knew the morning was a writeoff.
Wish me energy and concentration. I’ve had my meds, a coffee, and now a tea with a biscuit, and I still feel like burying myself in bed. I’ll try and get out of here before 9pm at least and have a good night’s sleep before tomorrow’s new session of writing back at the uni library. I am at least relieved in the back of my head that I’ve now got clean clothes and a clean house again
⚡️💪for energy and concentration. You’re smashing it!
You can do this. Well done with the clothes and food while in the middle of it. That’s life sorted.
Here’s a sleepy sun kitty to help
I wanna join sleepy sun kitty and bury my face in that glorious sun-kissed fur (even if only for 0.1 seconds)!
But no, I shall stare relentlessly at Microsoft Word
You can do this. 😊
Good luck with your work tonight.
You’re getting there and nearly done I hope.
You can do it!
Thanks. I’d say I’m past the 50% mark overall but still a lot of work to do to get to the 90%-complete level where I can send it to my supervisor. At least i feel like some major blockages have been cleared. I think I won’t push myself too hard tonight because I need to sustain momentum for a few more days rather than burn out too fast.
The black cat is outside… but I can’t feed him or encourage him to hang around otherwise I’ll have a cat fight on my hands
Not a good idea to feed neighbourhood cats anyway unless you know them. You don’t know if they have a special diet or not.
Agreed, he looks healthy so probably has an owner and might not need help. I’m hoping he stays that way because I don’t have the energy to catch him if he’s a stray
- towels washed
- Pantry cleared out
- slate pile moved (we wanna put tanks where it previously was)
- Site prepped for workers tomorrow
- Naan dough rising
- burgers et
now to make some burritooos for freezing, then roll out the cheesy naans (also for freezing)
