getting tired of going in circles

So far today I've put in 8 hours of uni work. The first two went beautifully--I created a figure, and it all went smoothly, and turned out to be beautiful as well as informative. Alas, it is a figure which goes with things I'd written yesterday, so no new words have appeared in the thesis for that.

Then I started what was meant to be productive work, but hasn't yet resulted in any new words for the thesis. ( technical details cut to spare the uninterested )

This can't be correct--if the rock is 50% garnet and that garnet is not available for reactions then the "effective bulk composition" of everything else *must* be different than if the rock is 5% garnet and that 5% that isn't available for reactions. Therefore I am doing something wrong here. But I've been looking at it too long, and simply can't see where I'm going wrong. If any of you have enough of a background in chemistry or enough basic logic skills to tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it, let me know. Heck, I would even be willing to e-mail you the spreadsheet,if you think it would help...

In the mean time I'd best go write up a sample description for one of the other samples, so that there will be some new words for today. Sigh.

getting tired of going in circles

So far today I've put in 8 hours of uni work. The first two went beautifully--I created a figure, and it all went smoothly, and turned out to be beautiful as well as informative. Alas, it is a figure which goes with things I'd written yesterday, so no new words have appeared in the thesis for that.

Then I started what was meant to be productive work, but hasn't yet resulted in any new words for the thesis. ( technical details cut to spare the uninterested )

This can't be correct--if the rock is 50% garnet and that garnet is not available for reactions then the "effective bulk composition" of everything else *must* be different than if the rock is 5% garnet and that 5% that isn't available for reactions. Therefore I am doing something wrong here. But I've been looking at it too long, and simply can't see where I'm going wrong. If any of you have enough of a background in chemistry or enough basic logic skills to tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it, let me know. Heck, I would even be willing to e-mail you the spreadsheet,if you think it would help...

In the mean time I'd best go write up a sample description for one of the other samples, so that there will be some new words for today. Sigh.