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kareinaYesterday was a very busy day with fully 10 hours of uni related activities! I woke up energized and refreshed and got straight to work almost immediately after finishing my muesli for breakfast. I'd made arrangements to get a ride in to Uni with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clovis_t, who had a meeting in the afternoon, and therefore told me that he planned to leave around 13:30. Round about noon he tells me that he'd like to leave soon. Yikes--I was still in the middle of doing uni stuff, so quickly hurried to a breaking point and packed a lunch. Arrived at uni by 1pm, and finished up the task upon which I'd been working there, then went downstairs and talked with my advisor. As always, this proved to be a useful and inspiring thing to do--I always leave his office with more information than I knew I needed. From there I went to work editing the PowerPoint presentation I'd done for a conference back in 2006 adding in more recent results. Managed to get that done just on time for my interview/presentation with the University of Milano (via Skype). They had a room full of people on their end--faculty, post-docs, and graduate students. I sent them the PowerPoint file, and then we did a voice-only Skype connection while they put my slides onto the screen on their end and advanced to the next slide when I told them to. In addition to the talk (which focused upon monazite dating) I also answered questions about the other research I've done, and sent them a few other files of things to look at while I spoke. We stayed connected for a good hour and a half all up, and it felt rather more like hanging out with a bunch of like-minded people than it did an interview. While I'd probably prefer the weather in Norway (I miss Alaskan weather and vegetation!) I felt very comfortable with these people and, should they offer me the position, it probably wouldn't take all that much effort on their part to convince me to take it. But, it is still too soon to say if I've got a chance at the job--I'm not their only applicant.
After that was done I stayed at uni for several more hours doing uni work, since I was so energized. I then came home, did yoga, did a bit of meditation for the first time ever, played with my hammer dulcimer, and went for a walk before finally relaxing enough from the high of the day to sleep.
Today I went back to uni to crush a few more samples, and, whilst there, take a few photos and blog about it on my geology blog. Next time I decide to do that many photos on that blog, I need to remember to work out in what order I wish to display them and add the last ones first--the silly program put each new photo on the top of the page, and I needed to drag them down to where they are meant to go, which got harder and harder to do as there were more and more photos to drag them past each time.
This evening I sent off yet another application--this one for a teaching position in Cape Town. That one I've mixed feelings about--I'd like to move some place with winter next, since I miss it, and I'm not certain I like the reputation that the political climate has either, but, it didn't take long to prepare a cover letter to accompany my CV. They say that once they've selected their top three choices they will fly them out for an interview. I don't know if I'll be one of those people, but if I am, the interview will be a chance for them to sell their area, and they will have to do a pretty good job at that before I'd say yes to that location...
Tomorrow I'm heading down to Geeveston withmadryn_1960 for their annual Medieval Mayham festival, where the SCA puts on a display of dancing (that would include me), and archery and fighting. Hopefully it won't take too long, as I'd also like to finish up chapter five and get it off to my advisor. Granted, I've wanted to check of that task as complete for a while now.
clovis_t, who had a meeting in the afternoon, and therefore told me that he planned to leave around 13:30. Round about noon he tells me that he'd like to leave soon. Yikes--I was still in the middle of doing uni stuff, so quickly hurried to a breaking point and packed a lunch. Arrived at uni by 1pm, and finished up the task upon which I'd been working there, then went downstairs and talked with my advisor. As always, this proved to be a useful and inspiring thing to do--I always leave his office with more information than I knew I needed. From there I went to work editing the PowerPoint presentation I'd done for a conference back in 2006 adding in more recent results. Managed to get that done just on time for my interview/presentation with the University of Milano (via Skype). They had a room full of people on their end--faculty, post-docs, and graduate students. I sent them the PowerPoint file, and then we did a voice-only Skype connection while they put my slides onto the screen on their end and advanced to the next slide when I told them to. In addition to the talk (which focused upon monazite dating) I also answered questions about the other research I've done, and sent them a few other files of things to look at while I spoke. We stayed connected for a good hour and a half all up, and it felt rather more like hanging out with a bunch of like-minded people than it did an interview. While I'd probably prefer the weather in Norway (I miss Alaskan weather and vegetation!) I felt very comfortable with these people and, should they offer me the position, it probably wouldn't take all that much effort on their part to convince me to take it. But, it is still too soon to say if I've got a chance at the job--I'm not their only applicant.After that was done I stayed at uni for several more hours doing uni work, since I was so energized. I then came home, did yoga, did a bit of meditation for the first time ever, played with my hammer dulcimer, and went for a walk before finally relaxing enough from the high of the day to sleep.
Today I went back to uni to crush a few more samples, and, whilst there, take a few photos and blog about it on my geology blog. Next time I decide to do that many photos on that blog, I need to remember to work out in what order I wish to display them and add the last ones first--the silly program put each new photo on the top of the page, and I needed to drag them down to where they are meant to go, which got harder and harder to do as there were more and more photos to drag them past each time.
This evening I sent off yet another application--this one for a teaching position in Cape Town. That one I've mixed feelings about--I'd like to move some place with winter next, since I miss it, and I'm not certain I like the reputation that the political climate has either, but, it didn't take long to prepare a cover letter to accompany my CV. They say that once they've selected their top three choices they will fly them out for an interview. I don't know if I'll be one of those people, but if I am, the interview will be a chance for them to sell their area, and they will have to do a pretty good job at that before I'd say yes to that location...
Tomorrow I'm heading down to Geeveston with
madryn_1960 for their annual Medieval Mayham festival, where the SCA puts on a display of dancing (that would include me), and archery and fighting. Hopefully it won't take too long, as I'd also like to finish up chapter five and get it off to my advisor. Granted, I've wanted to check of that task as complete for a while now.
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Cape Town
Date: 2009-04-17 06:07 pm (UTC)Love you
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Date: 2009-04-17 08:40 pm (UTC)Cape Town is a beautiful city. The climate is much like Oregon, the summers may be slightly warmer. Apart from Table Mountain there are many other attractions. It is close to the heart of the wine industry.
The SCA group there is fairly small, but used to be very active. I have kind of lost contact with them, sadly.