Date: 03 April 2011 20:42:49
I've started to think about my thesis corrections (just as well, as I've only got a fortnight to go to hand them in now!) and mostly think they'll be fine. However, a couple of niggles occurred once I (eventually) received the confirmation from the graduate office of what needed to be done when. Firstly the administrator said he'd attached the viva form when he hadn't (luckily the chair of my viva had already sent me a copy in the post), and infinitely more irritatingly, the email was headed "Viva result C", even though I got a B. I emailed him back pointing this out, and luckily so has the chair of the viva, even though he is currently abroad. It's only a small thing, and relatively unimportant as it's easily done if you're dealing with lots of these things, but when it's my pride and joy he's talking about and downgrading I reserve the right to harumph a bit!
I've contacted my supervisors to ask about them sending me pdf files of a couple of articles the examiners thought it would be useful for me to incorporate. Hopefully they will be able to, as I can't get to the library till next weekend and I don't have remote access to the ejournals in the library collection - I think I will be having a big blitz on it this coming weekend, but would like to have made a start on the reading before then. The plan is that I will get my outstanding essays marked by mid-week, the car to the garage on Friday then work on the thesis from home on Friday and the library Saturday and Sunday, then the following week mark a few essays in the evenings and then on the Friday go to get the revised copies printed and bound and handed in, then home to finish the essays. That's the plan, hope I stick to it! The revised thesis has to be received in the graduate office by 18th April, but as I am working that day it makes sense to get it done the Friday before when I am off work. Then on the Saturday there is a shipmeet, I have a telephone tutorial to prepare for the following Monday, and then with any luck it will all be over for a while. I have one more lot of essays from each of the two courses I teach due in at the start of May, and tutorials for both to deliver at the end of May, and then with any luck I will get a proper rest!