ThesisWroteMe

I have good and bad news and spadefuls of optimism! The good news is that we ended the pandemic and jabbed the nation out of misery and prison. Sad for those who were relishing the burrows but the bunnies were out in full swing in January 2022. Oh Covid is still around but it it is not sending us to hospital and no one wants to know anything about it so I shall say no more! Just that long Covid in teenagers and young people should get more attention in the media than a defamation case involving Johnny Depp! The more good news is that last year I finally concluded with great civility and dignity my financial settlement arbitration and I emerged with a year and a half grace period to conclude thesis, find work (holy-moly!) and move on! Maintenance year means I should thesis in peace. The bad news is that I am still struggling to get 'back' into the thesis when I get out! Advice: Don't take breaks if you are like me. Calculate after a break how long your break from thesis was ...

200 and 30 days more, we arrive at October 1, 2021. The pandemic looks like it's swallowing each and every one of us in its covid jaws, saving the double-jabbed from hospitalisation and death. Most are knocked sideways for months and I have yowled at my just-turned-sixteen year old that she will get her first dose this Saturday. I cannot delay this thesis even further. Since I last notched, two more close family members passed on, one shockingly from a blood clot which is a terribly unexpected event.. Especially hideous when the victim is a teetotaller, non-smoker and a dedicated paediatrician, who elected to leave Manchester for rural Sri Lanka and a very good Christian. I am an aetheist who goes around believing we are bio-chemical blobs moving around in clothes, but then! The second passer-on, my cousin here in Richmond is a great loss. Having a like-minded first cousin on a sharing-Uber route close by is a real treat. Now, when she is a clever conversationalist, lover of jazz a...

  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...

  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...