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[lunabee34]

Just a bit of housekeeping:

This is the do or die semester in which I must complete the dissertation, so I am cutting the flist back to the inner circle. I have to read everything on my flist. It's pathological, so I'm reducing the temptation. I still love all you guys.

Off to answer comments.

Comments

Word Watchers?

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I have about six weeks to update an 1800 page book. For reasons that do not need to be explored at this juncture (including having to do the same thing to a 1500 page book, with the deadline a month earlier than the editor told me it was) I am not doing very well with this.

Wanna enter into a Word Watchers arrangement where we e-mail each other daily with a progress report?

there must be some kinda way outta here

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I'd be down with that. :)

I need some kind of accountability or something.

Will you be my stick? LOL

Re: there must be some kinda way outta here

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Were you unwed, I would measure you in a womanly fashion.

'K then, first daily report due Monday? Posting time before dinner break?

Re: there must be some kinda way outta here

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

It's a date. :)

[kaleecat]

I'm in the middle of creating a schedule of completion for my diss so they will let me register for hours. I can't even figure out what to do with it anymore so this is like pulling teeth.

I don't even have the prospectus nailed down or defended, so you are light years ahead of me. You know what you have to do--set specific times in your schedule & if your school is at all helpful they should allow you to cut back on some office hours. Its to their benefit you finish. You're way more tasked on this than I am, so I know you can do it.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry you're struggling with the diss. Believe me, I totally understand. I floundered for years and didn't know what I wanted to do. It was horrible.

Do you have a good realtionship with your committee and/or director? Ask them to give you a topic if you're having trouble figuring out what you want to write about.

Another thing that helped me was realizing that it doesn't matter what I write about. Like at all. Nobody gets famous off her diss. It's just this thing you have to do and then you say you did it. Does not have to be perfect or brilliant. Does that make sense?

*hugs*

[tabaqui]

Good luck!

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie!!!!!

[ariadne83]

*hugs*

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

:)

*smish*

[ariadne83]

Feel free to email me and vent any time you want ;-)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

You are such a good friend to me.

*hugs*