I finally finished the piece I was doing... and afterwards, I feel like I can't be bothered to do anything. My brain is empty and distracted, and I feel that my work has nowhere to go. Can't really be bothered reading anymore. I hope I get at least a tiny ounce of positive feedback about it because I just need something to get me up and going again

Congrats Mokey on submitting some written work! I still haven't managed to accomplish writing anything yet - I keep putting it off by carrying out practical work like piloting my data collection instrument. I kid myself that it's ok 'cos I don't really know what should go in my lit review until I see what issues are raised by my research. I hope your feedback is positive - I'm sure it will be. Here's to a good day for us all tomorrow!

Sort of, eddi. my sup has his own office, and i am outside in an open plan area with other postgrads/docs, so we are not in each other's faces all the time. When i see him, though, i feel more inclined to work harder (prob a good thing), and the days he is away, i have a more relaxed approach to my work (prob a bad thing!). So i suppose if i was no where near my sup, i would get nothing done.

I have been consumed with locating the right internet radio station. I can only get a limited number to play for whatever reasons... the lack of music is making me stir crazy, it is so hard to work without it! I am about to see if I can actualy make a connection with the all Bruce Springsteen station!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the Bruce Springsteen radio works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weird...spent all day trying to think of this particular song...from about 2000--could not think of the artist, or the name of the song, but a few of the lyrics...and I turn on my internet radio---and there is is!!!!!!!! Beth Hart LA Song-- how weird is that??!!!! It belongs more properly in my list of homesick blues songs, but anyway!

Olivia, you're a fan of blues i take it then?

Next monday i am attenting and will actually be playing at a blues/rock jam session. The musicians are absolutely amazing.

Fan of blues--oh YES! I mean--I have BEEN to 14th and VINE, the very legendary corner of blues songs! And in certain moods, blues are just the thing to listen to! ( and it goes with trout!)

What instrument(s) do you play, Cryo? Are you also a blues fan then ( well, obviously!)

I'm a drummer. The last jam session was my first and i enjoyed it immensely that i am going again! I won't go as far as saying that i am a big fan and know all the 'players'at the moment but i am getting into it!

Oh def very cool, Cyro! And that must make such a nice constrast to PhD work--to jam with musicians, and play drums! Sounds good! What got you into doing jam sessions like that?

Thanks Olivia. A colleague at work is a jazz drummer, he intoduced me first to the jazz one and they mentioned that there was a blues/rock one the following week, so i went to that as well and loved it! It is really something being in a room with lots of other musicians, some old enough to be my fathers! lol

And yeah, drumming as well as other interests do help take my mind away from PhD work, even if it's for a little while

That can only be a plus, to take have that to take your mind off of the PhD! But what fun, blues music, musicians, hanging out, drumming! Sounds a treat!