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Jul 20, 2008 02:00

I think it would do my thesis good if I were not on a writing/working schedule which has me at my desk at around five in the afternoon and makes me stop sometime at two in the night. I strongly suspect the last page or so I wrote might be full of ghibberish. It's like a vicious circle: When I work late the night before, I don't get up early the ( Read more... )

bad habits, travel plans, dissertation

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mrsfjl66 July 20 2008, 08:44:09 UTC
my hours are insane these days. Like the fact that it's 4:30 in the am and I think I just ate dinner? I dunno.

Thesis terrors are no good. How long does it have to be again?

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anna_in_the_sky July 20 2008, 11:40:56 UTC
Oh, so I am not the only one? That's good to know. Too bad we still live in different time zones, otherwise we could chat the night away ;-)

Thesis terrors are no good. How long does it have to be again?

No kidding! Then again, it was my choice, so I should not complain. I don't have any professorial orders on how long it should be, but typically, anthying under 200 pages is considered lazy (unless you're really, really brilliant) and anything above 300 pages annoys the supervisors. I'm leaning more towards the 200 pages...

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sophiaiswisdom July 20 2008, 12:24:11 UTC
Actually, I'd find that I usually worked better in the wee hours of the morning. Coffee helped. And heavy curtains.

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anna_in_the_sky July 20 2008, 20:38:23 UTC
I'm considering getting new curtains. But I'm really not a working during the night person, coffee or not. I just get too tired to think straight. So, I'll rather try to get back to a daytime schedule - which, WOOT! I actually managed today.

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