T_T's (hopefully!) dimishing returns!

[Poppet12]

You sound super busy T_T! I hope your sister has a fabulous wedding
SW will be there when you're ready to get back to it, and hope Uni work is going well (and my writers block is't catching..)

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Well, I somehow lost 2lbs. No idea how. And I have probably regained it with the crap I've eaten today hah. Proper student mode; holed up in the IT room with biscuits/crisps etc. Although I've also eaten loads of fruit. And it's been productive. I've secured three interviews today, which is VERY exciting.

 

[Poppet12]

Well done on the loss! Interviews sound very promising too, nice job! How did the wedding go? X

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Wedding was amazing! I will pop some pictures up when I get around to getting them off my phone. It was a really lovely day. Meeting my dissertation supervisor at 9am tomorrow... probably not the best idea to have opened a magnum of prosecco when I got home at 9... but hey ho!

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Been a bit all over the place food wise, but I am determined to get back on it. Did a really good 15 mile training walk on Sunday (despite the horrid weather we had here!) Properly getting on with my dissertation now; have some interviews lined up this week, which has made me feel a lot more confident that things are actually moving!

I know it's technically a tweak, but I've had a smoothie for breakfast this morning. I eat a HUGE amount of fruit anyway, so just going to give it a go. Also added my HEXB of oats to make it extra filling.

 

[Poppet12]

Smoothie sounds good! I think as long as you don't totally overdo it and use 6 bananas and a whole punnet of strawberries etc they can't be that bad. Hope it keeps you going!
Interviews will be excellent, you'll feel a real jump in progress I'm sure! Hope they go well & you get what you need!

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Thank you! It's a bit scary using unstructured interviews, but it is what's going to work best for me. Smoothie was a plum, a pear, handful of raspberries and blackberries. So I'm sure it's fine! All speed food anyway, and mostly berries and water. I eat a crazy amount of fruit, and still have loses. It's hard, the fruit and veg stall on campus is great for fruit, but not so much for snacking veg bits!

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Today they were actually better. Got a pack of sugar snaps and the most incredible cherry tomatoes! That along with my giant couscous and smoked salmon will see me through today.

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Got home and went to cook dinner, and realised I had almost a whole box of eggs about to go out of date. SO I've hard boiled some for tomorrow, and made up two lots of baked oats for breakfasts. One is bakewell (2.5 syns for the cherries), the other I just added ginger and cinnamon to, and will serve with apple.

Made a HUGE lot of nacho feast, which will do tonight and at least one more lunch

 

[Poppet12]

You're doing well T_T! Jealous of your fruit & veg stand, we just have some manky bananas and old pears in the shop now and again.
Unstructured is a worry sometimes as you don't know which way it will go, but can make things so much more interesting. Have you got some prompts in mind in case things stall a bit? Yum to the baked oats! I still haven't got myself sorted and made some. I think it's because I rarely have yoghurt to spare as OH takes them in his lunch box. Have you tried it without before?

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Thanks Poppet - we are lucky to have them on campus: they weren't there when I was an undergrad.

Interview went really well. Although the talk to text app I used has given some slightly dodgy transcription. Annoyingly, it doesn't seem to record audio as well, so I have to correct it from memory.

I haven't tried them without yogurt... not sure if it would work.

 

[Poppet12]

Oh a talk to text app! That must save so much time! I had to manually transcribe my data- all 45k words of it. Sheesh that was a low period lol.
Hmm I will pick up some vanilla yoghurts next shop and give them a try- OH should leave vanilla alone!

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Yea.... it's not great. I don't think it will really have saved me much time at all! Back to not being lazy with transcription for the moment. And I have put a little funny aside into my data section about technology and data drama...

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Yay 1.5lbs off. Not entirely sure how, but I will take that quite happily

 

[Elanor]

Hi TT, how is everything? Hope Uni is going well xx

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Heya, not bad. I have a really horrid cold and cough, which is just sitting on my chest at the moment, annoyingly! Having to push through with uni work though, because hand in is looming. It does mean that food has somewhat gone out of the window. I'm trying to be reasonably sensible, but I know that it's not always best.

 

[Mini]

I hope you feel better soon TT (((HUGS)))

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Thanks Mini. Feeling rather got at by the world now. Have come down with a sickness bug. Been much better today, but very tired and tummy still isn't happy. Don't think I'll be making WI tonight somehow

 

[Mini]

It is only natural to feel down TT when you are not feeling well...give yourself plenty of TLC...WI can wait.

 

[Elanor]

Like Mini said, WI can wait. Just look after yourself! You have got your Uni stuff, and I can only imagine how stressful that can be when you have deadlines approaching. Find some time for yourself, and do something that relaxes you. xx