i haven’t said much about my thesis writing ventures lately, but so far things are progressing well enough. i have a pretty solid draft of the methods/results chapters. the boss gave me some excellent feedback (because the boss is an excellent writer), and there were definitely things i needed to change, but i am apparently on the right track because most of the criticism was formatting and wording. i have to take my compliments where i can find them with my boss- sometimes this is a lower than expected level of criticism. ha.

i am dreading the introduction chapter, even though i’ve got a really nice background and significance from my grant. i am still dreading this, more than the discussion. the discussion will be pretty straightforward.

to all you younger grad students, i would strongly suggest writing your method and a straight-laced result page complete with statistics anytime you complete an experiment. this will save you a lot of time. it did for me.

next week i am going to be absolutely buried in work, but i shall emerge from the week victorious. i would prefer it if i could also be victorious over these headaches.