yesterday and today

Yesterday morning I went into uni and turned some of my rocks into sand. Playing with the hydrolic crusher and the ring-mill is actually kind of fun. Next week I'll go back and extract the zircons from the sand. While I was at uni I had a useful meeting with my advisor and we decided that, even though this is the "writing up" portion of my thesis, and the "data collection" portion is meant to be long done by now, that not only will I do the work analyzing the zircons, I will also analyze one new sample which contains chlortoid, a mineral which is rather rare in Tasmanian metamorphic rocks--it is present in only three of the samples I've got, and in two of them it isn't joined by the minerals whcih would need to be present if we were going to work out its temperature and pressure. In the afternoon I took a nap and then in the early evening took a few more notes towards progress on the section I'd worked on the day before. Then, all of the sudden, I felt *done* with the computer, and rather than even stopping to post a progress report, I shut down and went and made some ( progress on a non-uni project instead. )

( I've discovered some potential jobs for which I might apply )

This afternoon and evening I managed to take the notes I've been generating for the past couple of days and transform them into some actual writing, with references. That portion of my thesis is now over 2,000 words, and yesterday it was less than 1,000 words of notes (which is *not* the same thing as text!)

yesterday and today

Yesterday morning I went into uni and turned some of my rocks into sand. Playing with the hydrolic crusher and the ring-mill is actually kind of fun. Next week I'll go back and extract the zircons from the sand. While I was at uni I had a useful meeting with my advisor and we decided that, even though this is the "writing up" portion of my thesis, and the "data collection" portion is meant to be long done by now, that not only will I do the work analyzing the zircons, I will also analyze one new sample which contains chlortoid, a mineral which is rather rare in Tasmanian metamorphic rocks--it is present in only three of the samples I've got, and in two of them it isn't joined by the minerals whcih would need to be present if we were going to work out its temperature and pressure. In the afternoon I took a nap and then in the early evening took a few more notes towards progress on the section I'd worked on the day before. Then, all of the sudden, I felt *done* with the computer, and rather than even stopping to post a progress report, I shut down and went and made some ( progress on a non-uni project instead. )

( I've discovered some potential jobs for which I might apply )

This afternoon and evening I managed to take the notes I've been generating for the past couple of days and transform them into some actual writing, with references. That portion of my thesis is now over 2,000 words, and yesterday it was less than 1,000 words of notes (which is *not* the same thing as text!)