Still writing

I'm making good progress on my dissertation. This past week had a lot of data analysis cranking as well as some writing. I need to get a first draft of my dissertation discussion to my advisor by Tuesday....just so we can say that we've reviewed it at my committee meeting on Thursday. The meeting is an important one in which I need to convince the committee of the importance of my new specific aim 3, that my progress is strong enough to only need one more experiment (regardless of its outcome) and that I'm on track to finish things in time to graduate in May. My advisor is on board with everything, so I'm confident. I also need to get back to updates to the dissertation Introduction and Chapter 4 - which will be my third paper. Write, write, rrrrite. :-P

Speaking of writing, I like this witty synopsis of the different stages of grant writing. I can feel the similarities to the writing I'm doing too. I also like this recent post and commentary on generating ideas...some good thoughts to keep in mind in the future.