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Getting Stuck In: Day One & Two

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  My ex to ok off with the dining table.  Now I must admit I never liked his scandinavian white design (you can sneak a peek at it beyond the teapot) so no tears shed! I've ordered a replacement in glorious oak but the darn thing will only be delivered in weeks. For me though, the thesis needs the table not the bed - which my Egyptian friend swore she did hers on, that crazy wonderful lady - though what is really handy for some is that amazing Amazon contraption which btw, I am not sponsoring but love to insert links to real world objects in my posts. Back to the table: I need room for my mug, computer, extension monitor, elbows, the book stand, etc. So Ikea trestle it is all set up and gtg, no excuse! Log: 23rd and 24th: Got stuck in, printed out the draft chapter and revision comments and started 'knawing' (as I call a combo of gnawing-knowing) at the chapter re-write. To procrastinate I ordered a book which I was advised would help my academic writing style. It mediate...

200 Days - One Thesis (and this was three whole flippin years' ago!)

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  Hello thesis-writers, researchers, emerging-from-lockdown-ers! As the world cranks back to its normal momentum, here's hoping we can make this time count and get to our finish lines. Me, I've set myself a countdown challenge to write that thesis ! Am  not gonna dwell on this but you may say I am emerging from what is strangely a sort of 3D Year  as I call it:  Of Death, Divorce and hopefully at the end of this one a Doctorate at the end of it...!  Yet I  believe we cannot be defined by a viral pandemic which cranked us to a halt or by any tragedy for too long.  I am gonna create my own momentum and set this goal and purpose to emerge on the other side. See, we still have our groove and somewhere within, creative imagination flickers! So I was moved to log my entries and bits of my inspired thoughts and reflections along the way like little notches. Even prisoners whose days are monotonous are nonetheless moved to mark their passing with notches on...