Thread: Patience is a virtue ..... they reckon

Hello All,

Nope - nothing to see here. Still waiting .... sigh!

Kind regards
Lionel

Patience Grasshopper, patience. Big wheels move slowly.
Cheers

Originally Posted by austastar

Patience Grasshopper, patience. Big wheels move slowly.
Cheers

If they even move at all, that is because they are far too big .

Hello All,

Just after the storms settled late last night I checked my emails before shutting the computer down... OMG is that an email from my Principal Supervisor!!!


Just some minor stuff to finish up. Some of it generated by trying to overwrite some guff that EndNote is doing to some in-text citations - adding full names or initials when it should not be doing so. Other bits like the year of the article being written twice in the same sentence - just careless stuff that must have crept in when I was tired and the brain flagging a bit.

Should have it wrapped up shortly - fingers crossed. Onwards and upwards.

Kind regards
Lionel

Hello All,

The ball bounces into my side of the tennis court after being served by the Principal Supervisor.
Thwack - serve is returned. The tennis ball goes cleanly over the net and bounces back into the Principal Supervisor's side of the court.

Now I am patiently waiting for a new response.

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello All,

The ball bounces into my side of the tennis court after being served by the Principal Supervisor.
Thwack - serve is returned. The tennis ball goes cleanly over the net and bounces back into the Principal Supervisor's side of the court.

Now I am patiently waiting for a new response.

Kind regards
Lionel

Do not despair Lionel. I bet some bastard has pinched the ball so you may have a long wait.

Hello All,

Well, at 11:02 last night an email bounced into my Inbox. The email was from my Principal Supervisor. I was given some directives to go through the Track Changes and hit "Resolve" for each comment.

I then had to go and make a "clean" copy = File => Info => Inspect => Comments, Revisions and Versions => Removal All => Save

Then do an item by item check through the Table of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables and Appendices to check that their numbering was correct and that their links to actual page numbers were accurate.

Then I could save the document after each task was completed, and send it to the supervisory team for a final review before it is sent off for examination.

At 4:34 pm Eastern Standard Time (Real) I pressed the "Send" button. Gee that was a fun day going through all the pages checking the minutiae. Not!

Fingers crossed - for the next step - actual submission.

After that I did some spray painting of an old steel container and then put all the tools away. An old Dusty Springfield song came into my head... I just don't know what to do with myself. Substitute in the word "PhD" instead of the word "you". Accessed 14th March 2022 from, Dusty Springfield ~ i Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (HQ) - YouTube

In the meantime I just have to wait patiently again to see what the next step actually will be... more revisions of submit for examination...

Waiting .... I just don't know what to do with myself...

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello All,

Well, at 11:02 last night an email bounced into my Inbox. The email was from my Principal Supervisor. I was given some directives to go through the Track Changes and hit "Resolve" for each comment.

I then had to go and make a "clean" copy = File => Info => Inspect => Comments, Revisions and Versions => Removal All => Save

Then do an item by item check through the Table of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables and Appendices to check that their numbering was correct and that their links to actual page numbers were accurate.

Then I could save the document after each task was completed, and send it to the supervisory team for a final review before it is sent off for examination.

At 4:34 pm Eastern Standard Time (Real) I pressed the "Send" button. Gee that was a fun day going through all the pages checking the minutiae. Not!

Fingers crossed - for the next step - actual submission.

After that I did some spray painting of an old steel container and then put all the tools away. An old Dusty Springfield song came into my head... I just don't know what to do with myself. Substitute in the word "PhD" instead of the word "you". Accessed 14th March 2022 from, Dusty Springfield ~ i Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (HQ) - YouTube

In the meantime I just have to wait patiently again to see what the next step actually will be... more revisions of submit for examination...

Waiting .... I just don't know what to do with myself...

Kind regards
Lionel

Glad to see the bastards haven't ground you under Li, & you still have your sense of humour.


Just as well you "enjoy" being buggerisde (?) around.

Keep on smiling.