I apologise. I prostrate myself at your virtual feet. I abase myself, I am lowly and vile. I am worm.

Also, I haven’t posted for some considerable time and I am sorry.

The thing is though, you see, that I’ve been writing a thesis. Yes, I know, this blog was meant to be at least half about the process of writing a thesis, but the thing about writing a thesis, as many of you are no doubt aware, is that it does tend to absorb the rest of your life somewhat. I’ve been working 12 hour days for … 3 weeks or something. I am so tired I cannot feel my legs. I look like a tramp and can hardly string a sentence together anymore. Kids, don’t do thesis; it screws you up.

Anyway, the good news is that sitting on my desk just to my right (underneath my elbow in fact) is what appears to be a thesis. 170 pages of thesis, to be precise. Some 43,000 somewhat original words + diagrams. Only thing that’s missing is a full reference list, which is why I am here, in my lab, on a saturday. Only, I’m not doing that, I’m updating my blog.

So, I submit my thesis on monday. Then, I shall mostly be getting drunk, falling over and then finding my way aboard a train on Tuesday to go somewhere else… but you don’t get to know about that. :)

As far as the ‘career-related’ theme I committed this blog to goes… well, I think I’ll turn my attention to that after monday.

Right now have to turn my attention to endnote, and deal with my discovery that a whole load of citations I downloaded from the web of knowledge only have first authors on them. Not entirely sure what to do about that, actually. Anyone got any ideas? Can I link endnote directly to google scholar? If not… why not?

Right. Onwards.

Back soon. I promise.

xx