sleepy!

[kareina]

Stayed up a bit later last night than perhaps I should have, because I was working. Got up bright and early this morning to head in to uni to crush rocks for fun and profit. Finished that and came home. Took a short break to stop in Kingston, where a lady with a Nashi-pear fruit tree bearing an over abundance of fruit was giving it away and got two bags full to bring home (yum! some days, it is so worth being subscribed to FreeCycle), and then settled in to uni work this evening. Started editing a presentation I did for a conference a couple of years back to incorporate new data so that I can present that talk tomorrow (via Skype) as part of an interview for a potential post-doc position. In so doing I realized that I really needed to compile summaries for all of the various monazite age results for all of my samples into one place (this is complicated by the fact that the older grains range over lots of different ages), and suddenly envisioned a way to organize all of this disparate data into a table which will be easy to read and let me take it all in at a glance. Started gathering the numbers, calculating "weighted mean average ages" for the primary metamorphic event (which happened in the Cambrian), and using the "unmix ages" algorithm of the Isoplot add-in for Excel on the Neoproterozic results and on the Mesoproterozoic results. Six hours later, I'm still not done with that! However, there is only the southwest-coast samples yet to do, but tomorrow morning--I'm very sleepy, and still need to do yoga, brush my teeth, and read my 1000 words of geologic literature before I can go to bed.

Wish me luck for getting the table, *and* the talk done before my interview...

Comments

[darttn.livejournal.com]

good luck, and let me know how the interview goes.
Love you
Mom

[katerit.livejournal.com]

I hope all goes extremely well.