#PhdLife #research Academic Chatter™ PhD_Genie PhD Voice - Independently Run The PhD Place Yes, what they said.😜 Participation is listed alphabetically by University, so you’ll find me near the bottom of the list. #UTS

#Phdlife #momlife #Reading #kidsbooks Academic Mom, PhD PhD_Genie putting down the 3 project applications due this week, to spend time shopping for books with 7. She’s discovered the 4th wall genre & I’ve discovered where half my stipend has gone this week.😜 She knows my weakness.📚❤️

#PhdLife #momlife #runner Academic Mom, PhD PhD_Genie 7 is at the park, & I need to run this low-level project application & thesis anxiety off. I am not attached to the outcome. I am not attached to the outcome. she says pounding the treadmill, & worrying about the outcome!

#PhdLife #MomLife Academic Mom, PhD PhD_Genie for those playing along at home, desperation is, after a long conversation with my own mum about these 3 project applications of which I’m so stuck,😕 I can see that 2 aren’t a good fit, & now normal thesis work can resume.😌 Who knew!😦

#PhdLife #research #LocalParks loving the support by my university for the three minute thesis.☺️

#PhdLife PhD_Genie Academic Mom, PhD PhD Voice - Independently Run it turns out this cluster of project applications are clarifying where I want to go as well as where I do not. Because I have to justify the time as value add in someway, right? I miss my thesis😍

#PhdLife #MomLife Academic Mom, PhD PhD_Genie grabbing the writing time whenever I can. 7 is at the park, & I’m waiting for the pizza dough to rise. She thinks I should get the recipe tattooed on my back so we don’t have to look it up.😇 i’m thinking not.

#PhdLife #MomLife Academic Mom, PhD The PhD Place PhD_Genie in case you’re wondering, house hunting has not gone well. But I’m now avoidance coping that situation by curling up on the lounge in front of a window overlooking greenspace with my thesis for the afternoon while 7 does craft

#PhdLife PhD_Genie The PhD Place Academic Mom, PhD has anyone seen where I put that planning reference? Nope, me either.📚😣

Research is spending two days reading eight journal articles and a quarter of a book to get a paragraph correct, only to find out you need to delete it

#PhdLife #MomLife Academic Mom, PhD PhD_Genie today’s PhD parenting hack is give 7 1/4 of a watermelon & a spoon, & tell her to go nuts. 45 minutes later, & I’m still writing.

#PhdLife PhD_Genie Academic Mom, PhD I hate my methodology chapter, she says quietly reading through the quagmire of too many words and not enough direction. Seriously it is so bad, that I don’t even know where to begin slashing and burning.

#PhdLife Academic Mom, PhD PhD_Genie The PhD Place Three Minute Thesis for those following along at home, thank you for your support regarding the 2022 Asia Pacific three minute thesis semifinals. I am not a finalist this year. good luck to those still in the running to take this thing out😘

#PhdLife #greenspace #researcher PhD_Genie Academic Mom, PhD disappointing the old white guy at a fancy work do I attended last night by positioning my research outside his expectations & shutting him down when he tried to lecture me on policy in my area. I’m going to call that a win.

#PhdLife #AcademicTwitter PhD_Genie The PhD Place Academic Mom, PhD working late on campus with colleagues on our respective projects & we want to no, at 10pm, should we try the various coffee in a can flavours left by marketing?☺️

#PhdLife #momLife Academic Mom, PhD PhD_Genie 7 telling me there’s no way she’s ever doing a PhD because she wants a calm small life. Smart kiddo, right?🥰 Yet she’s up well after bedtime writing her second thesis survey in Qualtrics.🤣

#PhdLife #running PhD_Genie Academic Mom, PhD i’m not saying we should panic, but working from home today in a bid to save time, and there’s no chocolate because it’s all in my office on campus, and the Internet is down.😱 why does the universe hate me?😜 i’m going for a run!

#PhdLife PhD_Genie Community announcement: don’t ask to borrow my notes. There are 206 files with the name note in them, none of which are actually what I’m looking for. So tell me, where would I have put my methodology notes?😕

#PhdLife #MomLife #married PhD_Genie Academic Mom, PhD not gunna lie, 7 & her dad are at 2 birthday parties, it’s raining, & so glad I don’t have to. While I’d rather be secretly watching Grey's Anatomy. Instead, i’m writing for the last draft. TV Will only prolong the PhD pain😂