time to actually remember to look at the graphs again, I think

[kareina]

This month has been hot, and I've had houseguests and trips off to SCA event. All of this has conspired to make my log of # hour of uni work/week look pretty pathetic. By not actually looking at the graphs that Ecxel keeps updating when I type in the data of how I'm spending my time I've been letting the # of hours of uni work slip gradually lower. This is not good, as there is ever so much that needs to be done. I know that the summer heat is a major factor in my lack of motivation, and therefore I need to just make myself work, anyway.

Today's progress report includes re-starting my eighth experiment, which quit running as a result of a power failure last night, and finally opening the element compositional maps from my seventh experiment to confirm that the three or four phases I identified when I analyzed that sample are, in fact, the only phases that are present. This is not enough work for one day.

Between now and when I leave for Scotland next Wednesday I need to:

*fill two more capsules and weld them shut for the 9th experiment (to be run when I return and the current one ends)
*finish analyzing the data from my 7th experiment and send my boss an e-mail about the results
*return to the paper based on my PhD research I started ages ago and haven't looked at in a long time (yes, this one keeps showing up on my lists, and keeps slipping off the bottom again when motivation wains)
*work out which EU funding scheme would be best suited to a proposal for a research project in Norway, and get started on application packet for it
*re-pack the contents of the suitcase clovis_t left behind to be brought to him "later" into a larger suitcase and add more of his stuff to bring it to the much more generous luggage allowance of the airline I'll actually be flying

If only it weren't hot; when the room is hot the heat that the computer generates becomes unpleasant to be around. But that sounds like whining, and so I'll stop now. Right. No whining. Work!

Comments

[sismith42.livejournal.com]

you could probably work on the PhD paper here, too. Oh, also: most trains have plugs, if you are fortunate enough to have a seat near one (and chose to go that route on the trip to York)