Categories: phd
Tags: thesis
Date: 07 September 2010 20:10:40
I'm hoping that the technical woes of the past couple of days means that I won't have any when there are just 2 days to go, as I'm not sure my nerves will cope! Our BT line developed a fault on Sunday evening which meant no phone or internet, which we only got back this evening. I was meant to be emailing chapters to my supervisors on Sunday evening, but didn't panic as I thought I could put them on a memory stick and email them from work yesterday morning. Except that I forgot to factor in that my work PC is not only a wonder of ancient archeology, but is also useless. It accepted the memory stick and the light on the stick lit up, but when I came to attach it to the email there was no sign of the drive. So in the evening HD bought a top up for the mobile dongle, but that (obviously) is reliant on a mobile signal, something which is something of a rarity in the Stately Pile apart from a couple of square feet in random spots in the flat. We found a signal in the bedroom, but then my laptop didn't recognise the dongle installation files, so we tried to use his computer, but although it recognised the dongle, it was only when it was logged in as him and disappeared every time he switched it to me. So we thought we'd just have to use his computer, logged in as himself, except that then his computer didn't seem to recognise my memory stick! In the end he had to plug it into our server (yes, we have a server. Of course I have no idea how to use it, but then it's not my toy) and copy files from there. So by the time he emailed my supervisors with the chapters it was gone midnight and I was turning into a pumpkin.
I think in the circumstances an evening off is called for, which is what I'm having tonight. So far I have had a snooze and eaten Nutella from the jar. And not much else.