Archive for September, 2006
2.30
and I am awake;). That’s what happen if one goes to bed at 8pm. Not that I am capable of sharing anything interesting this time a night (but am I ever;)). Just this little cute thing that made me being aware today the life outside the PhD can start again …
By Nana | September 24, 2006 | Topics: Personal | 1 Comment »
… done …
It went really well. I would particularly like to thank to my committee for their challenging questions and comments.
However, I am not Dr yet, despite yesterday’s seminar being the crucial point in the defending process. Still have to wait till the final ‘ceremony’, which will take place sometime in the next month or two. But in the meanwhile I can just sit back and relax (well, not exactly, having tons of other things to catch up and work on at the moment).
I am free of PhD. Very unknown, unbelievable (atm) and kind of empty feeling. I am sure the beautiful side of it is yet to affect me.
I wish to thank to all of you for your support by either leaving a comment here, texting me or sending me and email. Much appreciated.
By Nana | September 19, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 9 Comments »
Doctoral seminar
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Vljudno vas vabimo (although, please do not show up), da se udeležite doktorskega seminarja, na katerem bo Bojana Lobe predstavila zaključke svoje doktorske disertacije z naslovom Mixing qualitative and quantitative methods in the environment of new information-communication technologies.
Doktorski seminar bo organiziran:
v ponedeljek, 18. septembra 2006, ob 14. uri v Seminarski sobi (2. nadstr.)
na Fakulteti za družbene vede, Kardeljeva ploščad 5, Ljubljana.
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This is more important than defence itself, as I get all the feedback from the committee. Am I ready for this? In these sad days not at all.
By Nana | September 16, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 8 Comments »
LaTeX
installed;) Did it this morning, whilst doing pilates, taking a shower, packing for Luxemburg and eating breakfast.
I am a bit confused but I am sure I will manage. Don’t know which editor interface to use, I installed WinEdt and TeXnicCenter. So many plug-ins, add-ons, and similiar stuff. Any tips?
;))
Merci to all who encouraged me to go on with not latex as some might imagine, but latex
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Opened PhD in word again, and what a pleasant Sunday morning surprise - it did it again. It completely messed up the formatting and styles, some 15th time in a row … I wonder how it does not get bored with it;)
Whilst installing LaTeX, there were some reasons listed, why one chose it. One of them was:
"You’re fed up with having to tweak Word (or WordPerfect,
StarOffice, etc.), just because your document has crossed the
magical border of 30 pages."
Oh well, they are damn right!
By Nana | September 10, 2006 | Topics: PhD, Tech | 8 Comments »
Indexing
is my latest *passion*. Have you ever done an Index in Word before? If yes, then you know what I am talking about. Highly entertaining and not-at-all-time-consuming task that makes me *sigh* all the time.
Maybe I am not doing this right so please let me know if there is any easier and less insane way than this:
I have to literally put an index entry to every single word or an author I would like to index, each time again and again. Somehow optimistically I thought once per word or an author would be enough and then the word will do its automatisation since we are talking about *automated indexing*. Nonono, I need to do it for every single word over and over again … snail speed activity.
By Nana | September 9, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 3 Comments »
Crapy Crap Called MS Word
I am losing my mind. I need to work on fine-tuning and every time I open my thesis_nana.doc, word starts non-responding. I need to restart and again. Then I save the doc with another name and here we go again. I am *literally* not able to write anything in my PhD anymore. Further, word corrupts all my tables so that it transposes columns and rows and the doc get some five new pages ….
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …
By Nana | September 7, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 8 Comments »
Did it;)))
By Nana | September 5, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 10 Comments »
Empty
Had to write the last lines of the PhD today … or better the first ones … the intro. What should be the first sentence? The very first?
Was sitting and staring at the screen for the last 6,5 hours, not being able to squeeze a single word out of my head. Been listening to the music. This music. That music. More music. No music. Nothing was happening. At least not in my head. Must be that I am a bit in a *mushy zone*;)
Now, off to bed. Tomorrow I will do my last first lines.
By Nana | September 3, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 6 Comments »
Sexy
Try to make some sentences more sexy!!!!
… this section should be “beefed up” in 2-3 “sexy” paragraphs …
… that’s not “sexy” enough !
… so, in a nutshell : you should be much more “sexy” (I mean : the dissertation in this section)
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This kind of comments I get on some bits of PhD;) Seems like I have to sex it up;)
Can you imagine;????
By Nana | September 1, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 3 Comments »