Last August or so I blithely whacked together an abstract for a local journal run from the uni here. The issue is about supporting postgraduate students so I wrote an abstract entitled “Scribbling in the Margins: Negotiating the tensions and challenges of the regional research student”. The due date for the paper was the end of January which seemed like years away. I then promptly put the abstract to one side. When I got the friendly reminder email earlier this week that the due date was nearly upon us, I quickly realised that I would have to start writing something. (I’m quite cluey like that!). So with all good intentions I pulled out the folder where I had stashed the abstract believing that of course I would have made some useful notes, written down some brilliant ideas and just generally got organised.

Here’s what I found:

Here we can see some points I noted down. They all look a bit crap now so let’s see what the day brings.

See how I’ve left a friendly reminder for myself of when the paper is due. That’s nice.

All in all it should be an interesting day.