finally

After 12 days of working (ok, with some breaks to work on the stuff for the job application about which I've also been posting) on the expansion and revision to the section of chapter two dealing with the pressure-temperature estimates using the "GB-GBPQ" technique, I have *finally* finished it! There was much rejoicing! ( technical details cut )

However, the process is tedious enough, and also required creating figures showing just which spots on which minerals are used for the calculations, that 10 samples took 12 days to complete! Each day didn't yield many extra words--today's total, including the summary paragraph for all of them, is only an additional 286 words and another three figures.

However, with this out of the way, I'm hopeful that the rest of the revisions to chapter two suggested by my advisor go quickly. Tomorrow I have my "annual review" wherin I meet with my advisor and the "graduate research coordinator" for the department to fill out paperwork explaining to the Uni how I intend to be done by year's end, and what steps are still left to complete, and how long we think each of them will take. Then I use the super-fancy camera/microscope set up to take really high-resolution photos of the zircons I mounted last week so that on Monday I can make marks on the photos showing which ones I analyse with the laser.

Yesterday I discovered that the "Tectonics" e-mail list I'm on is one wherein replies go to the list.( details )

I didn't mean to spam the list, but it may have been a good thing, I'll keep you posted.

finally

After 12 days of working (ok, with some breaks to work on the stuff for the job application about which I've also been posting) on the expansion and revision to the section of chapter two dealing with the pressure-temperature estimates using the "GB-GBPQ" technique, I have *finally* finished it! There was much rejoicing! ( technical details cut )

However, the process is tedious enough, and also required creating figures showing just which spots on which minerals are used for the calculations, that 10 samples took 12 days to complete! Each day didn't yield many extra words--today's total, including the summary paragraph for all of them, is only an additional 286 words and another three figures.

However, with this out of the way, I'm hopeful that the rest of the revisions to chapter two suggested by my advisor go quickly. Tomorrow I have my "annual review" wherin I meet with my advisor and the "graduate research coordinator" for the department to fill out paperwork explaining to the Uni how I intend to be done by year's end, and what steps are still left to complete, and how long we think each of them will take. Then I use the super-fancy camera/microscope set up to take really high-resolution photos of the zircons I mounted last week so that on Monday I can make marks on the photos showing which ones I analyse with the laser.

Yesterday I discovered that the "Tectonics" e-mail list I'm on is one wherein replies go to the list.( details )

I didn't mean to spam the list, but it may have been a good thing, I'll keep you posted.