D-day -156 (-40)

First proper sit-down-and-just-work-goddammit-day. Since the knee-height fruits were picked yesterday (included papers, not included papers and rough thesis outline - see picture below) I moved on to the waist-height fruits: research journey, paper overview and co-author statement. Which was btw merged into a nice cozy sit-down-and-listen-kids-to-my-oh-not-so-interesting-story chapter about five minutes into the work. 

I also encountered what can only be defined as the first sub-boss of this Quest - setting up the LaTeX project and making everything work. As is customary I was killed a few times (multiple compilation errors, missing files, missing packages etc) and had to start over, but now it seems to be working. My reward turned out to be nothing but a warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment. Bah, and here I was expecting at least a sword or a piece of armour.

NEW!! Today’s Achievements NEW!!
Status: writers block seems gone – don’t dare ropa hej just yet though, migrated from word to LaTeX
Progress: paper lists, research journey, paper overview, co-author statement written, LaTeX project created and formatted, gym still almost but not quite found
Hours in Schloss: 10:45
Words written: 1650 (153 words/h)

Administrative issues solved: 0

Administrative issues remaining to be solved: 3

Number of beers drinks downed at after-work: TBA ----Update: 3, feels like 5

NEW!! Overall Quest Stats NEW!!
Sections down: thesis outline, included papers, not included papers, research journey, paper overview, co-author statement
Sections still up and running around being elusive and playing hard-to-get: pretty much everything

Hours in Schloss: 20:45
Words written: 2242 (108 words/h)

Quest level: 4* - Apprentice




* The first level-ups are always ridiculously easy. Passed level 1, New-spawned, by creating the folder named "The Thesis", level 2, Greenhorn, by creating a draft word document for the thesis outline and level 3, Novice, by actually writing the outline (see picture above)