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kareinaI spent much of the day alternating between fighting with the calculations for the sample from yesterday (and the day before) which was giving me so much grief and doing useful tasks (like laundry and e-mail). Finally, around 18:00 I found something which worked, and gave me estimates for pressure and temperature which were are reasonable (the ones which didn't work were giving really unreasonable results--like saying the temperature was so hot the minerals would have melted, and then saying that the temp was +/- more than 500 degrees, which, I suppose may have been right--if one subtracts 500 from the unreasonable T one gets a reasonable one).
So I got the working calculations done, made the accompanying graphs and thought out just what I wanted to say in the text for that sample. I started writing it all up, looked at the clock, realized that there wasn't time to do all of the writing I wished to do, and instead jotted down some notes about what I wanted to say and then took off with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clovis_t for the weekly Swing Dance lesson. This week they we back to the six-count swing, but this time the kick-step variant rather than the triple-step we did a few weeks back. Much fun was had, and then I hurried home (forgetting to stop by the grocery store, which is bad because I'm out of cheese!) so that I could get back to work. 256 words later (80 of which are a single sentence!) and that sample is done, and the chapter on "other regions" is complete! I'll give it a read over in the morning and then send it off to my advisor, probably with accompanying figures, since it is a short chapter (only 2,524 words, 15 figures, and a couple of tables).
Next up: The calculations for the south-west coast samples. Once that is done I can get to work, at long last, on the discussion and conclusions chapter. I am really, really looking froward to getting that one done, let me tell you! Because once I've got that one together I can write the abstract and turn it in with the form saying that the thesis* will be submitted soon. Then I can take a few weeks to go back through all of it, edit it, clean it up, fill in any missing bits, make all of the figures camera-ready and then print it and have it bound while the uni administration uses that time to arrange for people to examine it (which is to say, read the book and decide if they think it is sufficent to qualify me for a PhD). They will likely ask for some corrections to be made (they always do, I'm told), and once I've done that I'll be done. There is still ever so much more to do, but I am starting to feel like I can see it from here.
*In Australia the PhD project write-up is called a "thesis", not a "dissertation"--this makes me happy, because, to my eye, it is a prettier word, but your mileage may vary.
So I got the working calculations done, made the accompanying graphs and thought out just what I wanted to say in the text for that sample. I started writing it all up, looked at the clock, realized that there wasn't time to do all of the writing I wished to do, and instead jotted down some notes about what I wanted to say and then took off with
clovis_t for the weekly Swing Dance lesson. This week they we back to the six-count swing, but this time the kick-step variant rather than the triple-step we did a few weeks back. Much fun was had, and then I hurried home (forgetting to stop by the grocery store, which is bad because I'm out of cheese!) so that I could get back to work. 256 words later (80 of which are a single sentence!) and that sample is done, and the chapter on "other regions" is complete! I'll give it a read over in the morning and then send it off to my advisor, probably with accompanying figures, since it is a short chapter (only 2,524 words, 15 figures, and a couple of tables). Next up: The calculations for the south-west coast samples. Once that is done I can get to work, at long last, on the discussion and conclusions chapter. I am really, really looking froward to getting that one done, let me tell you! Because once I've got that one together I can write the abstract and turn it in with the form saying that the thesis* will be submitted soon. Then I can take a few weeks to go back through all of it, edit it, clean it up, fill in any missing bits, make all of the figures camera-ready and then print it and have it bound while the uni administration uses that time to arrange for people to examine it (which is to say, read the book and decide if they think it is sufficent to qualify me for a PhD). They will likely ask for some corrections to be made (they always do, I'm told), and once I've done that I'll be done. There is still ever so much more to do, but I am starting to feel like I can see it from here.
*In Australia the PhD project write-up is called a "thesis", not a "dissertation"--this makes me happy, because, to my eye, it is a prettier word, but your mileage may vary.
