D-day -151 (-35)

Today I reached a crucial point in the Questing - I started taking stuff out that I wrote some days ago. This makes me believe I'm soon to reach the Major Turning Point, where I'm no longer trying to increase the number of words per day, but decrease it. At the pace I'm currently barfing out words, I believe this might happen within the next two weeks. Exciting stuff.

Did something I've been dreading basically since I started my PhD - formulated a draft Aim and Research Questions. Took me all of 30 minutes or so. What, did you really believe that was something that was done at the start of the PhD project? Now, really, come on.....

And who knows, tomorrow I might get to the Methodology!

Today’s Achievements
Status: full-blown headache. Lesson learnt - don't go running in 26°C when the head is already hurting slightly (to my defense I'd like to say it was at 18.00. Whowuddathunk it'd still be so warm?). Still happy to be running in the park again 
Progress: thesis outline, aim and research questions (!!!), scope & delimitations, studied systems (2 out of 3), a little here and there... very productive day 
Hours in Schloss: 10:30 (+ 1 h for running)  
Words written: 2097 (199.7 words/h) 
Figures included: 2 
Tables included: 1

Overall Quest Stats (new in green, revised in orange)
Sections down: thesis outline, included papers, not included papers, aim+research questions, scope+delimitations, research journey, paper overview, co-author statement, terminology&definitions, biofuels, policies, gasification technology, biofuel synthesis, gasification based electricity production, BMG applications in papers, studied systems (2/3), appended papers
Sections not down: Introduction, Methodology, 1/3 studied systems, Results, Concluding discussion, Future work, Acknowledgements, probably some more stuff
Hours in Schloss: 51:00
Hours in Luftschlösser: 10
Words written: 8247 (162 words/h)
Figures included: 5
Tables included: 2
Quest level: 5 - n00bie