It is 6:07 pm and I am leaving the library in sunshine –yeah!!! It has been a fairly solid week of preparation. I finalized the deck for my upcoming Oslo colloquium, via Skype, and submitted it late last night.
My focus today has been on several areas. First, re-reading my industry and academic publications. Once again, I noted a few typos which really smarts! That said the review reminded me that I have conducted solid and useful research, not just based on my opinion, but on the opinion of academics and industry practitioners. This is definitely an accomplishment to be proud of. I also created brief summaries of all of the recent literature that I have been reviewing. The rest of the day has been focused on answering VIVA questions. I am about 25% complete, but already I can see that there is overlap in the questions. This likely means that things are going to really speed up when I get to the 50% completion spot because I will be likely cut and paste responses that I have already written.
I have taken Monday off work to complete the responses to the remaining VIVA questions so that I am prepared for my first mock VIVA. This will take place via Skype on Wednesday morning with my supervisor. I am feeling a definite level of anxiety about it but feel excited as well.
It is 6:21 pm now, time to catch some rays!