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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 7, 2012 13:11:31 GMT
Here begins the one thousand, two hundred and sixty-second post: I have been really busy for the last few weeks. The little research project in South Rhovannian is finished and the fee safely tucked away in my bank account. Things are a little more quiet in the parish now we are back up to full staffing and I have shifted gear into spending more time at the university. My main research project is going well but has been neglected, I need to get my writing speed up again. I have about 30,000 words of fairly good quality and have to argue the thesis within 100,000. I really need to be up to about 50,000 by the end of this calendar year. The normal time frame for part-time doctoral research is five years but I have an ambition to get there in four, saving €3000 in fees. That means I have to get the rest of the work done within 24 months so that I can give notice of intention to submit before November 2014. Once the notice has been given in the clock stops on fee payments - in effect it is a six month free extension to cover submission, examination and corrections (if any). We shall see. Maybe I should get on with writing that instead of writing here ... though that would be a shame really!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 13:13:57 GMT
Well, we need you here, definitely. Now the Moose has to start a post quest as well, right?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 7, 2012 13:15:26 GMT
Who can tell!
Love the cavine avvie, by the way.
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Post by Mari on Nov 7, 2012 14:18:41 GMT
I watched Ice Age 4 yesterday. It was funny.
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Post by Moose on Nov 7, 2012 17:47:24 GMT
I want a postcount too. Me me !
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 7, 2012 19:42:20 GMT
You have but to nag incessantly ... oops .... I mean ... ask
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Post by Mari on Nov 7, 2012 20:24:29 GMT
Nag and ye shall receive?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 21:50:46 GMT
Well, she has one now.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 7, 2012 22:51:25 GMT
Clearly she did nag & receive! But you would not grudge it her really ... would you?
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Post by Shake on Nov 8, 2012 2:49:25 GMT
Look at this! You're still in the lead!
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Post by Kye on Nov 8, 2012 4:04:01 GMT
I think we need our countdown thread.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2012 5:46:03 GMT
Do we have to start at one million again?
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Post by Kye on Nov 8, 2012 12:12:19 GMT
Of course not! That would be too depressing.
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Post by Mari on Nov 8, 2012 14:59:12 GMT
Yesterday it worked semi-okay for me, so I can look up where we were on EF1. Then we can go from there.
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Post by Mari on Nov 8, 2012 14:59:53 GMT
Of course I could also pretend we lost a couple of thousands in the switch. We wouldn't notice, would we?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 8, 2012 16:58:31 GMT
Tsk ... tsk ... the angels would know.
Bit of a rush around today, deanery chapter, then lunch club, then senior fellowship, then a funeral visit and now a bit of a sit down before going off out again for the men's fellowship this evening.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 8, 2012 19:58:18 GMT
Maybe it should be a 100000 post quest. There would be a chance of seeing it in our lifetimes then!
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Post by bigsleepj on Nov 8, 2012 20:00:07 GMT
Why must it be a quest? Can't it be a 'road trip'?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 8, 2012 21:45:00 GMT
And the difference is?
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Post by Mari on Nov 8, 2012 22:38:00 GMT
The first you do out of necessity, the second for the journey?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 6:50:54 GMT
Isn't the post quest for the journey too?
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Post by Thingy on Nov 9, 2012 9:35:33 GMT
Ye gods. Addicted to EF again. I m u s t g o a n d d o s o m e w o r k.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 9, 2012 13:35:10 GMT
Why? You know that you won't enjoy it as much ...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 15:33:09 GMT
Me too, actually. I think I'm catching up on all the time I coulldn't really spend on EF because it wasn't working.
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Post by tangent on Nov 9, 2012 18:09:05 GMT
I think we should count down from a myriad because there were a myriad of angels when Jesus was born and because the Catholic Church has created a myriad of saints (myriad (gr.) = ten thousand). OK, I might have lost some non-theists along the way.
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Post by Mari on Nov 9, 2012 20:05:05 GMT
Some theists too... My cats are making a lot of noise and I don't know why.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2012 8:57:17 GMT
Our guinea-pigs often make quite a bit of noise. So do our gerbils.
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Post by Mari on Nov 10, 2012 9:25:46 GMT
I can imagine. I've learned to distinguish between pain, feed me!, pet me! and "just drop whatever you're doing and pay attention to me!, but sometimes they make noises that get me confused.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2012 9:37:44 GMT
Same with our piggies. They can get really loud when we're cutting vegetables.
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Post by Mari on Nov 10, 2012 9:47:28 GMT
I'm trying to teach my cats to stop doing that when I'm in the kitchen. It doesn't have too much of an effect, but I'd like to think it's working at least somewhat.
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