D-day -85

Ok, so I have a confession to make. The real reason why I haven't worked on the Thesis for such a lengthy period of time is not the Beaver, as I might have lead you to believe. It's also not writer's block, as I might also have indicated. And it's definitely not the large selection of un-Thesis-related activities (including sparkling wine for lunch and glühwein at any time of the day) on offer in Wien during this time of the year. No no, not at all. The real reason, I must now finally admit, is that I've developed a severe allergy to my Thesis. This has manifested itself in the form of itches and rashes on arms and legs. Indeed, it has during some times been so bad that people have threatened to oven glove me Phoebe-with-chicken-pox-style, if I don't stop scratching.

Now, when I've to my immeasurable dismay and sadness have been forced to let the Thesis sit untouched for numerous weeks, I'm glad to announce that the allergy seems to be retreating somewhat. I've now started to, carefully and in small portions, continue pursuing the finalisation of this grand master piece (still talking about the Thesis here). Slowly, slowly moving forward again. Or actually, right now moving backwards both in number of words and in progress quantifiables, but at least it's moving.

Apparently Thesis allergy is not as uncommon as it may sound. So all you PhD students still out there - beware!

Today's Achievements
Status: moving... sloooowly...
Detailed progress: revised results for RQ4
Hours in Schloss: 0 (it's another holiday, this time something with Immaculate Conception)
Thesis Hours: 4.5
Words written: -633
Figures included: -1

Overall Quest Stats 
Hours on Thesis Quest: 267
Words written: 26703 (100 words/h)
Figures included: 23
Tables included: 5
Equations included: 2
Overall accomplishment level:  70% (redefined, revised, repulsed...)
Quest level: 13 - Week Seeker

Status - detailed report (%) - REVISED

Abstract	0
Sammanfattning	0
List of Papers	100
Thesis outline	100
1. Introduction	88
2. Background	90
3. Biomass gasification	91
4. Studied systems	100
5. Methodology	86
6. Results and analysis	85
7. Wrapping it up	63
Acknowledgements	0
Papers	100