It is 643pm and I am heading home shortly –yeah!! I have had productive day and my focus has been to resume the completion of final revisions to my thesis. Today was dedicated to Chapter 4 and I am now 75% complete. My hope is to dedicate a few hours after work next week and finish this Chapter off completely.
It feels good to return to my thesis after dedicating most of the past two weeks to revising a journal article. I worked hard on it and I am pleased with the final product which I submitted a few days ago. I am awaiting a response from the editors and keeping my fingers crossed that any required edits are minor.
I can’t overstate how satisfying it was to work on the article, despite the fact that it means that I am now two weeks behind schedule with my final thesis revisions. Not only did the article force me to further clarify my thinking it was incredibly satisfying to complete a tangible piece that was only 8000 words, given that my thesis is 10 times this size.
I am heading home now for a relaxing evening. My departure is much earlier than the past few weeks. It is well-deserved because in addition to research I have had some challenging circumstances to navigate at work and great deal of work travel -so glad that it is the weekend!