After another week’s worth of work, I’ve got to the stage where I have a complete full first draft of my thesis, all the way from the abstract to the conclusions. It’s now in my supervisors’ inboxes awaiting comments, though at 30,000+ words and 113 pages I suspect it will be a while before they get back to me. In the meantime, I have to write another technical report describing how to run the proxy/parser software, which is mostly done and won’t take long to finish, and a final report outlining future work which builds on the thesis. There might be a conference or journal paper to write as well, though not until the final thesis is handed in.
Ideally now I would take a rest for a couple of days, but I still have a backlog of UKUUG work to process (emails to speakers from the recent conference, plus two newsletter articles and chairman’s report to write), a lightning talk to finish off for Manchester Free Software on Tuesday and freelance work to catch up on…