Categories: phd, teaching, diet, festivals
Tags: supervision, Celtic Connections, tutorials, article, weight, zits, PhD
Date: 21 January 2009 21:22:38
Good things about today:
* At supervision my supervisor referred to the article I wrote as (and I quote) "fantastic", the best thing I've written so far, and if I write all my thesis chapters like that then I'm sorted. So all the agony of last week was worth it, and I'm really chuffed that I am writing to the required standard (when you're so close to what you're writing it's sometimes difficult to tell).
* At the same session I plucked up the courage to ask if I could change the role play tutorial which is coming up in a few weeks. My supervisor (who set the thing in the first place) has previously appeared quite set on it and resistant to change, so I was a bit nervous, but as soon as I asked she said "yeah, do what you like with it!" I know I normally feel sick on a Monday night before Tuesday tutorials, but I was already starting to dread this one, so this is really great news. Hooray!
* I have bought tickets for a Celtic Connections concert on Friday (yes kingsfold, *that* one - see you there). As we aren't as flush with money as the last couple of years this is the only (paying) concert we're going to this year, but it looks like being a great one. Hooray!
The reservations about today:
* I haven't lost any weight this last week. Must try harder.
* The main criticisms of my article were the length of some of my sentences and extreme use of brackets and sub-clauses. Me, ramble on and on? I'm sure you'll all find that very difficult to believe.
* The Celtic Connections box office was shut when I went this morning (didn't open till 10, which was when supervision was) so I had to go back in the afternoon. Glasgow traffic between 5 and 6 is terrible!
* I have about a million zits. Normally this coincides with weight loss. This time I have all the pain and none of the reward. Grrrr.