I hate doing transcriptions! HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT!!!!!
ACK!!!!!
Grr...
My goal today is to transcribe Laura's interview. That will probably end up taking me the entire day.
If I'm going on a 1:3 ratio in terms of transcriptions, I could, theoretically, do two today. But they're so incredibly soul suckingly draining that I just need to take frequent breaks.
In terms of work, here's what I still have to do before I can even start the analysis!
- Laura - 3 hours - 9 hours of transcription (HOLY JEEBUS!)
- Mary - 53 minutes - 3 hours of transcription
- Zima - 2 hours - 6 hours
- Nisa - 1 hour- 3 hours
Crap. So, between all of them, I have 22 hours of transcriptions. If I work 10 hours today, and 10 hours tomorrow, I should finish them before I take off for break on Thursday. Well, now that's a goal to aspire to.
I'm going to try the voice recognition again, and see if that makes any difference. I really do hope it does. Because this is a royal pain in the neck.
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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
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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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