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anyone studying today??

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dylsmum1998 · 02/04/2008 10:28

want to do motivational check ins?
I'm making a visual diary of childhood not sur ehwere to start.....

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Jambuttie · 06/04/2008 13:14

ooooo I need to get stuck into it BIG time today back to college this week and have done nowt since we broke up a fortnite ago

Exams are looming too

was going to buy th eherald today as there are past papers in there

Lazylou · 06/04/2008 13:21

Hi Dylsmum, I finally gave up at 5 this morning, but am back on it now. How's it going?

gomez · 06/04/2008 13:23

Well, clearly pretending to since I am on here.....

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kd73 · 06/04/2008 13:24

I am preparing for an interview and losing the will to live!

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dylsmum1998 · 06/04/2008 13:45

not going good- have been distracted by the snow- how can i not take the dc out to play we dont get snow that often its first time dd has been able to play in snow properly, last time it snowed she wasn't quite walking. have had a lovely time playin instead.
if only i could concentarte as well as i can distract myself..............

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jofeb04 · 06/04/2008 13:48

I should be, got two essays to be in this time next week! Had one completed on my laptop, but that won't turn on now so probably have to do it again!

peasholme · 06/04/2008 13:49

Ooh I could do with motivation
I am 3.5 weeks away from submitting my thesis. The snow is lovely but makes it a bit harder for dh for take dd out for the day to leave me to work. Lazylou: very impressed by 5am finish!

peasholme · 06/04/2008 13:51

jofeb04 what will you do? Did you back it up?

TheFallenMadonna · 06/04/2008 13:51

Ha.

I have a paper on social psychology open in one tab, MN in another. I have to switch every time DH comes into the kitchen

Essay due in Wednesday.

fairylights · 06/04/2008 13:53

I am trying to write an essay on contract law but am obviously somewhat distracted at the moment, having just started a thread in the "back to work" section! This is my last compulsory essay of the year, then I just have tutorials to prepare for..then EXAMS!!
Aaaaarghh, am in fear and dread already!
Glad someone else is working today though

jofeb04 · 06/04/2008 14:02

lol peas, no back-up... no notes
It's either or I'd cry!

Still, only 2000words hey

peasholme · 06/04/2008 14:28

oh blimey! keep smiling! I back up on gmail. You can save docs on there. And two extra pen drives. I am a bit paranoid about losing work. If I lost mine now it would be (tots up on calculator) 85 000 words. So I really would be fucked!

Lazylou · 06/04/2008 14:44

Still haven't really done anything

peasholme · 06/04/2008 14:55

me neither. Just setting up in my new "office" on my bed where I can expect to last all of 10 minutes before being discovered by DD. Come on. Let's motivate ourselves! LL what are your objectives for today?

purplemoon · 06/04/2008 14:57

HaHa FallenMadonna et al, glad it's not just me operating in multi-tabs mode!!...strangely it's MN that seems to be the one open the most

fairylights · 06/04/2008 15:58

yes i am multi-tabbing too!

Lazylou · 06/04/2008 16:24

Objectives? Hmmm, hadn't really thought of any tbh, just want to do enough work for my portfolio to hand it in for checking by my tutor on Tuesday. It's due in the following week but was set in September so it is my own fault.

On top of this, I have a 3500 word assignment about language development to do, plus all the observations for it (I'm not working atm so that could be tricky), plus do my dissertation. Since we got an extension on that, I haven't even looked at it. Oh and I have to write a presentation on emotional intelligence to do the same time as the portfolio gets handed in.

I have done 1 development plan though since I was last here and am now evaluating it .

Have you been discovered yet in
your 'office'? My mum has just taken DD for the night so I'm free to get on with it

Jambuttie · 06/04/2008 19:42

Anyone doing business management?

Niecie · 06/04/2008 20:15

I have an extended essay due in on 23rd April and I still haven't finished the reading. Spent the afternoon hiding from DH and the children pretending to work and surfing the net instead. I know I will be sorry in two weeks time when I have 5000 words to write and not a clue what I am going to say but that still doesn't stop me wasting time.

And I have to do it as it is the end of course assessment instead of an exam. And there are absolutely no extensions either.

jofeb04 - I sympathise with losing your essay. I happened to me last year, the week before Christmas. Had been using the computer all day, with autosave on and regularly backing up manually. At about 4am, on the day it was due in, I decided to save by emailing the essay to myself for the next day. I had done that before as I sometimes work on a different computer. This time I tried to send the email and the internet crashed at the same time and it was gone. I still don't know why it lost the back up as well. Weird, weird, weird. I must admit I cried. I got 2 computer guys to have a look too and neither could find it. Took me until the day before Christmas eve to get it done again.

Hope you manage to get your laptop sorted! Is there nobody who knows about these things who can rescue it - it must be still there, despite the power failing on the laptop.

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dylsmum1998 · 06/04/2008 23:11

i just got a shock when i looked at the clock i realised i have been working for over 2 hours solid!! i have been writing a presentation, i turned the laptop off and wrote it by hand in an attempt not to distract myself with ither things and it worked. i have just read it out loud to myself and timed it- yes i prob do look like a nutter but no-body can see me and timed it i got it to 4 mins 50 secs. it has to be between five and 10 mins long with a two page handout to give everyone else with further info on. so i am going to go to bed as my dd will be up by 6 and wake at least once in the night as usual. will do the same again tomorrow i think as it seems to have worked for me today, get as much as i can out of books will only put the internet on if desperately need it, which i'm surei will soon as it just to distracting!

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