There are two "worst part" about this thing...
1. I absolutely hate transcribing interviews. There are lots of other I could be doing with my time.
2. I hate transcribing interviews because there's really nothing else I can do while doing it to make go any faster, or any smoother. Usually when I'm dreading working, I put on some music, and that makes things go faster. Not so with transcriptions. It has to have my full attention. It's a pain in the neck, is what it is! Ugh.
Maybe I should pay someone to transcribe, at least, the English interviews, so maybe I can focus on something that's a little more digestible.
I don't know... I'm going to give it until Tuesday, and then if I'm not finished by then, I'm going to pay someone to do it for me. I'm sick of this.
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December
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- Day 16: FINISHED FIRST DRAFT!!!!!
- Day 16: Slowly but surely...
- Day 15: Things I have to realize...
- Day 14: Maybe....?
- Day 14: The "groove" escapes me
- Day 13: This is not moving any faster!
- Day 8: Running tally of whining and moping
- Day 8: I keep waking up in nightmares
- Day 7: More transcription woes
- Day 7: Comparison with VR
- Day 7: I DON'T WANNA!!!
- Day 7: This is SOOO annoying!
- Day 6: Transcriptions
- More day 6: Transcriptions
- Day 6 (cont): This discomfort is temporary
- Day X: What day am I on again?
- Day 5: Still transcribing interviews
- Day 3: The worst part about this....
- That didn't go over very well...
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My Writing Tracker
I estimate between 280-307 hours left of work to wrap up my dissertation. This is my tracker for that. Each $1 = 30 minutes of work starting 1/3/2010.

My time budgeting:
Qualitative Data:
-Code 7 interviews - 10-15 hours
- Scan/Type up fieldnotes - 5 hours
- Code fieldnotes - 5-10 hours
- Analyze interviews + fieldnotes - 20 hours
- Write 1st draft of data analysis - 20-25 hours
Quantitative Data:
- Gather quantitative data - 5-7 hours
- Organize quantitative data - 5-10 hours
- Analyze quantitative data - 10 hours
- Write 1st draft of quantitative data analysis - 20-25 hours
Write-up: - Incorporate literature I have into existing chapters - 40-50 hours
Editing: - Edit: 40-50 hours
- Edit: 30 hours
- Edit: 20 hours
- Edit: 10 hours
- Send to Editor
- Finish changes: 20 hours
- Send off to DA on Jan 26
Total Hours needed: 280-307
Qualitative Data:
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- Code fieldnotes - 5-10 hours
- Analyze interviews + fieldnotes - 20 hours
- Write 1st draft of data analysis - 20-25 hours
Quantitative Data:
- Gather quantitative data - 5-7 hours
- Organize quantitative data - 5-10 hours
- Analyze quantitative data - 10 hours
- Write 1st draft of quantitative data analysis - 20-25 hours
Write-up: - Incorporate literature I have into existing chapters - 40-50 hours
Editing: - Edit: 40-50 hours
- Edit: 30 hours
- Edit: 20 hours
- Edit: 10 hours
- Send to Editor
- Finish changes: 20 hours
- Send off to DA on Jan 26
Total Hours needed: 280-307
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