I am so frustrated right now

I feel so completely inept. For hours I have been trying to do a table in Word but I can't seem to do it. I want it to look like the tables in scientific papers but I have no idea how to do that. I do not even know if they use Word to do that or not. Guess I ought to find out but I am not prepared to learn another program if it isn't Word. I'll settle for it being legible enough for a Power Point right now.

I am trying to get enough done on my thesis to defend in December but I don't think I'll make it. I am basically clueless; after all this time I still don't understand enough about my project to explain the results. The funny thing is, I could have been done by now but I have procrastinated so much that I am working on year 7 on my Masters. Well I also have a full time job that occupies most of my time. And this time of year is our busiest time; I often work until 9 pm or so a couple nights a week. Now, how am I supposed to get anything done that way?

Right now I am in Austin for the weekend. I volunteered to work at Expo, our major outreach event. I hate it; I have no idea why I said I would do it. It's too hot and there are way too many people in our tent. I felt so claustrophobic sometimes. It is one more demand on my time I do not need. And they gave me the stupidest schedule ever, 9-1 on Sat and 1-5 on Sunday, so I won't get home until 9 tomorrow. I could have used this time to get some things done or, more likely, another weekend to procrastinate. And I work next weekend and the weekend after that a friend is coming down so my weekends (practically my only time off to get anything done) this month are nearly all booked. I would tell him that I am too busy but he already bought his concert ticket and I desperately need to get out of the house for something fun.

Oh, hell, I am just tired and I have no beer.

looks good.

the best think I can do is put it aside for awhile. Tuesday Afternoon has the right idea believe it or not.

:toast:

It's getting late anyway.

Word has some irritating habits when it comes to tables...

I have no idea. I just assumed that Word or something similar was the usual, especially for a thesis that isn't really published the way papers are, just a few copies bound and printed.

in Word format. There may be alternatives, but I'm not really sure what they are. My thesis and dissertation were all in Word and Excel, anyway...