I just could not stand sitting in my house anymore, and decided to come to the office. I have to train my brain to think that coming to the office does NOT mean faffing or doing everything else under the sun instead of working! It's a huge space with lots of room, yet I prefer to be in this little crammed up place at home working at a very uncomfortable desk and chair, etc.
And, I really have to train my brain to think that by coming here, I CAN work on things that are not directly related to teaching. I can work on my dissertation, and that's quite ok.
One bad thing is that I forgot the install file for Atlas.ti at home. Grr! But, the next item on my list is that I have to round up all my fieldnotes in one place, and start typing those up. That's going to take a long while for me to get through. Luckily, I think I accounted for that earlier on.
So, I have about a half an hour to do this before I go to lunch. Then, the entire afternoon is gone in meetings. Bleuch. Important meetings, but still meetings that take away from my diss work. Luckily, I don't have anything planned for the rest of the week, so I can just concentrate on working.
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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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