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As I write, the last few pages of my hourglasses chapter is printing. It's the first chapter draft I'm proud of, and I'm turning it in today!

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It is such a happy feeling, is it not, to feel productive? Like you're not stringing words on the page that you're going to delete and rip apart anyway?

Hurray for you! May it be the first of many.

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I feel happy, relaxed, productive, and ready to start writing one of the two chapters I don't even have a rough draft of yet today.

I met with my advisor to go over job things this morning, and turned in my chapter while there. I told him how I was happy with my writing, and he gently reprimanded me: he's rather have me be finished than writing nicely-written chapters. Of course, ideally I can have both. At least one of my chapters will be respectable, and I have reasonable hopes that the rest may yet be too.

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Congratulations!! :D

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Congratulations! How nice to hear the happy sound of things printing :)

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WOO HOO!!!

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Good for you!!!
Maybe that's the positive thinking encouragement I need to get off my bum and work on my thesis. ;)

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This is excellent news - well done!

I remember when I finished my first draft chapter, gave it to my supervisor and got an encouraging and positive email message back - for the first time I really believed (rather than just hoped) that I was going to get through the PhD. I thought ``OK, so I can write one chapter - I just have to do that another five or six times and then that's it.'' And it was - although some of the details kept surprising me right up to (and long after) submission.

Best of luck with the rest - I'm sure it'll all go fine.

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Thank you!

I won't hear back for several weeks since my advisor has two defenses (and their accompanying completed dissertations) to deal with in the next two weeks, but within three I should have feedback. I have high hopes for good feedback though, much more so than anything I've turned in before.

On to the next one!

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