Fuck
I'd always assumed tales of the incredibly short notice given to PhD students in my department was apocryphal, but I've just been told that my confirmation viva (the meeting that decides whether I get to stay on as a PhD) requires me to submit a literature review and a journal paper within the next week. I've written a literature review but it needs significantly overhauled; the journal paper doesn't exist at all, as I've never written one. My supervisor's not in the country. Fuck. (Comments off as I need to get off the internet...)