Busy, Busy

I have started to create a presentation for the GIR workshop later this week. Looks nice, but 20 minutes seems a long time to talk for a 2 page paper. We'll see how it goes, I guess there will be questions too.I am also looking forward to skiing, it's been a while since I did anything but writing or dog training.

The PhD took a great step towards being a finished document last week because I sorted out all the references. They are now in Word 2007.There were various problems with the xslt files I found for Harvard style. I found 4 different ones and none of them matched Sheffield's version. furthermore none of them can do author (year) as opposed to (author, year). So I spent some of my time fixing those. I still need to finally finish the results chapter, though it looks much better.

struggling on

Writing a PhD is like a marathon they said when I started. And so it turns out. Luckily I did not do what I did in the Sheffield marathon in 2000 and rush off too fast. Thus I am not completely fed up with the thing. I have to finish the results chapter by the end of the month, which is feasible. I also need to tidy up lots of earlier stuff, but I have mostly got it too a point where there are islands that I either re-write or just remove depending on how long I have. So I am getting there.

Off to Switzerland next week for a workshop, and a couple of days skiing.