Dancing fun!

Got off to a slow start this morning, letting myself get distracted by actually reading all of the various "controversial survey" answers my friends posted. Oddly enough, after reading the mix of answers with which I agreed, or disagreed, or laughed outright at, I felt inspired to write up my own, waxing, perhaps, loquacious on some point than I might have done if handed the quiz cold. I eventually did get to work, on an exciting part of the thesis--editing! Yes, that is right, my advisor sent me back some edits for my thesis introduction! I managed to spend about an hour inputting his comments in the original document before taking a break to play a bit of D&D with clovis_t and head out to the contra dance. Had a wonderful time dancing! It is such fun! The Hobart Old Time String Band (also called the HOT String Band) is a talented group of people who make beautiful, danceable, music together. After the dance I was inspired, so I sat back to the computer and managed to get the rest of the changes entered in to the introduction. As a result the thesis is more than 900 words longer than it was yesterday, and I feel like progress is happening. (Though, not surprisingly, the short sections wherein he *didn't* suggest changes make me happier!)

Dancing fun!

Got off to a slow start this morning, letting myself get distracted by actually reading all of the various "controversial survey" answers my friends posted. Oddly enough, after reading the mix of answers with which I agreed, or disagreed, or laughed outright at, I felt inspired to write up my own, waxing, perhaps, loquacious on some point than I might have done if handed the quiz cold. I eventually did get to work, on an exciting part of the thesis--editing! Yes, that is right, my advisor sent me back some edits for my thesis introduction! I managed to spend about an hour inputting his comments in the original document before taking a break to play a bit of D&D with clovis_t and head out to the contra dance. Had a wonderful time dancing! It is such fun! The Hobart Old Time String Band (also called the HOT String Band) is a talented group of people who make beautiful, danceable, music together. After the dance I was inspired, so I sat back to the computer and managed to get the rest of the changes entered in to the introduction. As a result the thesis is more than 900 words longer than it was yesterday, and I feel like progress is happening. (Though, not surprisingly, the short sections wherein he *didn't* suggest changes make me happier!)

hours slipping by faster than I expect

Despite staying up late last night doing uni work after the dance, I still woke up reasonable early, inspired to do uni work, and managed a couple of hours before deciding that it was nap time. After waking up I managed to vacuum and sweep, catch up on reading SCA-West (I love the way it slows down on the weekends!) and still did a number of hours of additional uni work (5.41 total). I don't really have any new words to report though-- part of that time was working on a geologic map, and one of the things my advisor suggested that I do was a comparison between the two different techniques I used to estimate temperature and pressure. The one technique takes the composition (as measured with the microprobe) of three different minerals which are in equilibrium in the sample, enters them into a spreadsheet which is set up to do the calculations. The other takes the composition of the entire rock, and calculates what minerals are expected to be present at any given temperature and pressure. From that one can find the mineral assemblage (and composition thereof) which best matches the minerals present and read the T/P from that. Therefore today I took the compositions of the *predicted* minerals from technique two and entered them into the spreadsheet for technique one. They do not match perfectly, though there is some vague agreement. However, I'm now much too tired to think about what the results mean, so I'll put off writing them up till morning...

hours slipping by faster than I expect

Despite staying up late last night doing uni work after the dance, I still woke up reasonable early, inspired to do uni work, and managed a couple of hours before deciding that it was nap time. After waking up I managed to vacuum and sweep, catch up on reading SCA-West (I love the way it slows down on the weekends!) and still did a number of hours of additional uni work (5.41 total). I don't really have any new words to report though-- part of that time was working on a geologic map, and one of the things my advisor suggested that I do was a comparison between the two different techniques I used to estimate temperature and pressure. The one technique takes the composition (as measured with the microprobe) of three different minerals which are in equilibrium in the sample, enters them into a spreadsheet which is set up to do the calculations. The other takes the composition of the entire rock, and calculates what minerals are expected to be present at any given temperature and pressure. From that one can find the mineral assemblage (and composition thereof) which best matches the minerals present and read the T/P from that. Therefore today I took the compositions of the *predicted* minerals from technique two and entered them into the spreadsheet for technique one. They do not match perfectly, though there is some vague agreement. However, I'm now much too tired to think about what the results mean, so I'll put off writing them up till morning...