Aug. 18th, 2008

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Today I managed to get our bed sheets washed--this is a goodness, I love the smell of freshly washed sheets! It is a pity that dryers in this country are so small--I remember a time when striping the bed, washing the sheets and putting them back on the bed was a process which took perhaps 1 hour, 35 minutes total. But here, with the dryer being so small that it can take only one sheet (it is a Queen sized bed) at a time, the process takes all day! (slightly faster when it isn't raining, so I can hang the others outside while the one is drying) As a result I am not doing this as often as I would like, because I don't wish to spare the time to have to switch over the next sheet, and then the doona cover, and then the pillow cases, each in turn. Sigh.

Today's uni work involved only three new figures and 550 words written. But one of the figures was quite interesting--I finally got around to taking the composition graphs for all of the garnets from the south west coast samples and putting them into a single spreadsheet and putting them all at the same scale. I wonder if there is an easier way to accomplish that part than what I did. I copied over each chart, took care that the Y-axis for each was set to the same scale, and for the same interval, then set one at a time atop another, and squished or pulled the chart until it was the same height as the first, then off set them so that I could see the X-axis scale of two at a time, and then squished or extended the second until they had the same scale for their X-axis, then repeated for each of the other samples. This process was complicated by the fact that some of the garnets were as small as 1 mm diameter, and others were as large as 17 mm diameter! This makes the graphs for the small ones look quite squished, and the large ones quite spread out, but it seems worth it to me to see them all at the same scale--makes it ever so much easier to notice patterns!

If only I'd switched from doing things for me to things for uni earlier in the day--it is after 02:00, and I'm sleepy, so even though I'd have rather written twice as many words, I'm going to go do my yoga and get some sleep...
kareina: (Default)
Today I managed to get our bed sheets washed--this is a goodness, I love the smell of freshly washed sheets! It is a pity that dryers in this country are so small--I remember a time when striping the bed, washing the sheets and putting them back on the bed was a process which took perhaps 1 hour, 35 minutes total. But here, with the dryer being so small that it can take only one sheet (it is a Queen sized bed) at a time, the process takes all day! (slightly faster when it isn't raining, so I can hang the others outside while the one is drying) As a result I am not doing this as often as I would like, because I don't wish to spare the time to have to switch over the next sheet, and then the doona cover, and then the pillow cases, each in turn. Sigh.

Today's uni work involved only three new figures and 550 words written. But one of the figures was quite interesting--I finally got around to taking the composition graphs for all of the garnets from the south west coast samples and putting them into a single spreadsheet and putting them all at the same scale. I wonder if there is an easier way to accomplish that part than what I did. I copied over each chart, took care that the Y-axis for each was set to the same scale, and for the same interval, then set one at a time atop another, and squished or pulled the chart until it was the same height as the first, then off set them so that I could see the X-axis scale of two at a time, and then squished or extended the second until they had the same scale for their X-axis, then repeated for each of the other samples. This process was complicated by the fact that some of the garnets were as small as 1 mm diameter, and others were as large as 17 mm diameter! This makes the graphs for the small ones look quite squished, and the large ones quite spread out, but it seems worth it to me to see them all at the same scale--makes it ever so much easier to notice patterns!

If only I'd switched from doing things for me to things for uni earlier in the day--it is after 02:00, and I'm sleepy, so even though I'd have rather written twice as many words, I'm going to go do my yoga and get some sleep...
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Sure doesn't feel like much. Stayed up way too late last night, and then, foolishly got up when [livejournal.com profile] clovis_t's alarm went off (he had class this morning). Yah, I did the work on the CV too, but I'm supposed to be writing at least 700 words a day, and Wednesday was the last time I accomplished that goal. I sure hope I get some good sleep so that tomorrow I can do better!
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Sure doesn't feel like much. Stayed up way too late last night, and then, foolishly got up when [livejournal.com profile] clovis_t's alarm went off (he had class this morning). Yah, I did the work on the CV too, but I'm supposed to be writing at least 700 words a day, and Wednesday was the last time I accomplished that goal. I sure hope I get some good sleep so that tomorrow I can do better!

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