I'm a doofus

Filia had a doctor's appointment this afternoon to get allergy skin testing done (because we think she's "outgrown" her peanut allergy), and I completely forgot about it! This despite the fact that we discussed it last night at dinner and changed our plans for how Filia was going to get to school today, which was not a small deal.

Damn it.

I'm not winning any Mom awards, either.

The really annoying thing is that up until the moment I realized all of this, I was feeling pretty good about myself because I was finally making headway on writing my thesis this afternoon.

thesis progress

I decided to post about this because I feel like I need some motivation to get it done.

So far:

I have a clean final draft of three sections: introduction, literature review, and methods. This afternoon I made what I think is a very pretty figure on inverse PCR for the methods section, and I need to go look up some primer sequences so I can add them, too, but that ought to be just cut and paste.

I'm about to start my second round of edits on the results section, but I still have a chunk (about 20% of the total) still to write.

The discussion section is outlined.

The bibliography is done (thanks, Refworks!), except that I will need to go through it and take out any references that I haven't actually cited.

I'm planning to write the abstract when I'm done with everything else. Oh, and I need to come up with a title. And then I need to go through and look for semicolons, because apparently one of the people in the graduate studies office who will have to sign off on the thesis hates them. I hope s/he understands that semicolons are used in genotype notation for Drosophila.

My goal is to finish the results section and complete a first draft of the discussion by March 15. That's really the hump; after that it's just editing, and my advisor is pretty quick with that. The whole thing is supposed to be submitted by April 1, an ominous date.