dissertation drama
I thought that life was suppose to work this way: When one thing is going great in one area of your life then a totally different area is usually messed up...that is how it usually works for me. I must have pissed off the God, Gods, Godessess, Aliens, or whatever may be controlling my karma because everything is messed up. Yes, personal, academic etc...everything is F$&%ed!!
My dissertation is at a stand still at the moment because my supervisor cannot find the data that I need to do my work. This is the data that she offered to me as a basis for my thesis. I am sorry but before you offer work to a student you should know 100% that you have that work. Right now she is frantically trying to locate it. She seems to think that the data is still in spreadsheet form on her ex-BF's computer. REALLY? If my ex had a whole bunch of work that is useless to me stored on my computer I would get rid of it. So if he does not have the work it has vanished because she can't find the hard copies anywhere. GREAT! JUST GREAT! So, at the moment I can't do anything until I hear from her. If she doesn't find the work then I will be set back at least three weeks if not more...especially if I have to go out and find documented archaeological skeletal collections that I can currently undertake research on. Sarah...you know how hard is to find ACCURATELY documented ARCHAEOLOGICAL material! (insert bug huge sigh here). And if I can't get access to material I am going to have to start completely over. No matter what happend I am not letting this keep me here any longer than the end of August. My current goal is to be home by August 31st at the latest.
I am trying to stay positive about this whole thing but it is just not looking so good.
My dissertation is at a stand still at the moment because my supervisor cannot find the data that I need to do my work. This is the data that she offered to me as a basis for my thesis. I am sorry but before you offer work to a student you should know 100% that you have that work. Right now she is frantically trying to locate it. She seems to think that the data is still in spreadsheet form on her ex-BF's computer. REALLY? If my ex had a whole bunch of work that is useless to me stored on my computer I would get rid of it. So if he does not have the work it has vanished because she can't find the hard copies anywhere. GREAT! JUST GREAT! So, at the moment I can't do anything until I hear from her. If she doesn't find the work then I will be set back at least three weeks if not more...especially if I have to go out and find documented archaeological skeletal collections that I can currently undertake research on. Sarah...you know how hard is to find ACCURATELY documented ARCHAEOLOGICAL material! (insert bug huge sigh here). And if I can't get access to material I am going to have to start completely over. No matter what happend I am not letting this keep me here any longer than the end of August. My current goal is to be home by August 31st at the latest.
I am trying to stay positive about this whole thing but it is just not looking so good.