I've heard it said that wedding planning is one of the most stressful things you can do. I laughed at this, because friends of mine have got married with seemingly no stress at all. I decided I wanted to be a chilled out bride, and not stress. Fat chance of that, I think now. Wedding planning is quite hard - the main problem is that you can't keep ( Read more... )

Today I am having one of my annual battles against the kipple in my room. I have thrown out 15 years worth of badges and keyring collection, shredded letters that I was sent in my second year at university by the hospital, and pruned the collection of CD Drivers that have sat in a box since I got my computer 5 years ago and have never been required ( Read more... )

So I've been pretty busy of late. After my hand in I was straight back to my parents for the Great Manchester Run, which I just about managed in 1 hour and 10 something or other. Jimmy and I hung around my parents house for the week, planning wedding stuff, helping out in my mum's cafe and spending far too much money in Manchester. My parents ( Read more... )

So, having handed everything in, I'm vegging out at my parents house. And by vegging out I mean wedding planning, yay! Since we got here, Jimmy and I have written out our guest list and we've just fired off a number of emails to possible reception venues. It's beginning to come together ( Read more... )

On Friday I handed my report in electronically. Yesterday morning I printed it out and handed in the paper copy. Yesterday afternoon I designed my poster. Today I have to give a presentation (Which I've nearly finished writing ( Read more... )

The report is not finished but I'm still working my way there. It'll all be over on Friday anyhow ( Read more... )

Yay for ibuprofen and pro plus - I can almost forget that I went to bed at 1am and still got into uni for 8:20am and then did nearly 12 hours straight work. Today has gone significantly better, I think. I've managed to write lots of stuff. At this point in time I don't really care too much how good it is, as long as it's clear-ish. The university ( Read more... )

I've given up on word count. My supervisor says trying to write to a word count just adds unnecessary stress and I should just keep writing until the report is finished. It's probably just as well I'm going to stop counting because I have to delete a large chunk that my supervisor deemed irrelevant. Why he told me this on the third re-write of the ( Read more... )

At the end of Day 1 of the week of not panicking, my dissertation word count is up to 5,370. I wrote a wopping 1,370 odd words today, about which I'm really proud. Having decided that 10,000 is probably a bit too much to aim for, I'm going for 9,000. This means I'm over halfway through. So I've stopped panicking for now. As long as things continue ( Read more... )

Trying not to panic about my final year project is now becoming a full time job. The number of words that I can write in German appears to be about 250 in four hours. Given that I have got 6000 words of report left to write, it seems an insurmountable task. All I can see in my head when I go to bed are words, words, words, and yet when I sit in ( Read more... )