On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > Allan. (ARRae) Who feels retirement or at least a sabatical coming on.
>
> What's this? Are you feeling burnt out from writing a thesis or bored of LyX.
Not enough thesis and too many LyX emails to read each day.
Maybe I should do like Amir did and unsubscribe from lyx-devel and
subscribe to the digest instead... hmmm... maybe procmail would be a
better idea and filter out anything that doesn't mention me...
> What about that shoulder to lean on I've been relying on all this time. I'm
> not sure I can stand on my own two feet after all this time!!!
I have a hundred and one different things I'd love to fix or break or
whatever in LyX but my thesis really should get to be my first priority at
some stage during my candidature. Doesn't mean I don't want to continue
supporting the effort but I am wondering what is the best move at this
point (five years into my PhD). Stuff like: finish my thesis versus fix
up the guii class hierarchy?
I finished my employment with the Uni two weeks ago (although I have
another week or two of consulting that they want me for) and have only
done LyX website and some hiking in that time. No thesis. No LDN. No
code.
I can pay rent and buy food until perhaps Christmas with my savings. But,
then I need to work again and I know for a fact that in the two years of
part/full time work I did until now I never got any useful work done on my
thesis. So perhaps that should be a warning to other postgrads. Make the
most of your scholarship while it lasts.
I'll finish breaking www.devel.lyx.org before I bugger off (if I do) but
if anyone out there wants to read LDN in future they might have to
consider writing it themselves. I'll try once again to get an LDN written
for next week but at present my back is not happy with me after I hurt it
weight lifting. That was supposed to be helping strengthen my back so it
was less likely to get hurt... ironic isn't it?
Allan. (ARRae)
