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[sqbr]

I know many of you have exams, but I am in my own special little ball of stress right now. My Phd is due(*) on the 28th. That is, twelve days from today. To hand it in, I need at least one of supervisors to have read, checked, and approved my corrections. The description of these corrections takes 13 pages, and they are scattered throughout my 170(!) page thesis.

A week ago, I emailed all my supervisors with the corrected thesis (I would have done it earlier, but had a cold, then reflux, then my ear got infected. Guh.) Only to have Supervisor 1 (who is the only one familiar with all the maths) to reply with "Oh, but I'm leaving the country for four weeks. Tommorrow."
Supervisor 3 is in Hungary busy with a new baby and hasn't replied.
Supervisor 2...is apparently going to email me with her comments later today. Will she say it's all good? Will she say "You need to redo all of it"? Will she be baffled by the sections she's unfamilar with?? Argh!!!

I mean if neccesary I can go overtime, but that will almost certainly mean missing Terracon :(

Also, I lost one of my piercings when it got Horribly Infected.

On the plus side..uh...I saw Cars. It was ok. Also work is going well apart from feeling sleepy and having sore throats more than I would like.

(*)Yes, I already handed it in. Then it was marked, and I was given four months to fix all the errors they found. This is the usual way of such things, afaict.

Comments

[nephron.livejournal.com]

Eek! Good luck!

[infamyanonymous.livejournal.com]

Three supervisors and two are stuck. Bleh, how annoying.

Hope they give you smiley faces and gold stars :)

[alias_sqbr]

Well, the whole reason I have three is to make up for one or more of my supervisors always being busy doing one thing or another. At least I didn't have to follow any of them to Sweden like the_riviera_kid :)

Anyway, S2 responded today with some quite helpful initial comments, so things are going ok. Not as good as if she'd said "Yep, this is all perfect, you can hand it in now", but such is life.

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

deep breaths, deep breaths.

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

ahhh! horible infection! *covers eyes* are you OK now?

Good luck with the PhD thingie.

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, though I only have one piercing :(

[lilysea.livejournal.com]

*wishes luck*

[(Anonymous)]

*sympathy* I have utterly no experience with the trials of writing something the size of a thesis, but it sounds painful.
I guess that this means you won't really feel like wasting time at my place until thesis finalised, huh? Can't say as I blame you! Let me know when your schedule becomes sane once more.
Currently on night shift at maternity hospital. One of the obstetric registrars seems to revel in surgical deliveries at ungodly hours of the morning. So, if you're wondering why I'm awake...

Go to Terracon!!!Enjoy it!!! Or else I'll sic the pixies on you.