Fashion meme

( or how my sense of fashion is unlike the 'norm' )

Fashion meme

( or how my sense of fashion is unlike the 'norm' )

she beat me to it!

The totally wonderful laurelyn22 recently sent me a surprise gift of a new book by tammypierce, Melting Stones. I've been trying to limit how much time I spend reading it, on the grounds that I do need to be working on my thesis, but the geology has been spot-on, and it is a joy to read a book that includes so much technical details on a topic near and dear to my heart. I've been intending to post to my other blog about this book. However, someone's already beaten me to it, with her take on the book. I suppose I can't really complain though, as a volcanologist, she's got a better claim on telling the world about this particular story than do I as a metamorphic petrologist.

she beat me to it!

The totally wonderful laurelyn22 recently sent me a surprise gift of a new book by tammypierce, Melting Stones. I've been trying to limit how much time I spend reading it, on the grounds that I do need to be working on my thesis, but the geology has been spot-on, and it is a joy to read a book that includes so much technical details on a topic near and dear to my heart. I've been intending to post to my other blog about this book. However, someone's already beaten me to it, with her take on the book. I suppose I can't really complain though, as a volcanologist, she's got a better claim on telling the world about this particular story than do I as a metamorphic petrologist.

My vision

Over on Change.Gov they are asking the people to share their "vision for what America can be, where President-Elect Obama should lead this country. Where should we start together?"

( Here is what I told them )

I encourage you all to craft your own vision statements, and share them with the government. Perhaps, if enough of us share our dreams about what the US *could be*, in an ideal world, it will be.

My vision

Over on Change.Gov they are asking the people to share their "vision for what America can be, where President-Elect Obama should lead this country. Where should we start together?"

( Here is what I told them )

I encourage you all to craft your own vision statements, and share them with the government. Perhaps, if enough of us share our dreams about what the US *could be*, in an ideal world, it will be.

tedious does not always equal bad

Today was one of those "rearrange data in Excel Spreadsheets" kind of day. I've got all that new data I'd come up with over the course of the past few weeks, and it is time to start pulling it into the summary spreadsheets which do other calculations or graphs for me, but some of them require some rearranging first, and some information wasn't where it was meant to be (generally the samples I'd worked on late at night, wherein I did only some of the summarizing steps at the end of the day, fully intending to get back to it later. Well, it is later, and it is done, but it was harder to accomplish now than it would have been on the day. Almost seven and one half hours of uni work today, and I'm pretty much ready to look at the resultant graphs and say something about what it all means.

The weird part? I actually enjoy doing this kind of work, even if it does get tedious at times. But my eyes think I've been looking at the computer screen for quite long enough, so time to go, get some exercise and get some sleep...

tedious does not always equal bad

Today was one of those "rearrange data in Excel Spreadsheets" kind of day. I've got all that new data I'd come up with over the course of the past few weeks, and it is time to start pulling it into the summary spreadsheets which do other calculations or graphs for me, but some of them require some rearranging first, and some information wasn't where it was meant to be (generally the samples I'd worked on late at night, wherein I did only some of the summarizing steps at the end of the day, fully intending to get back to it later. Well, it is later, and it is done, but it was harder to accomplish now than it would have been on the day. Almost seven and one half hours of uni work today, and I'm pretty much ready to look at the resultant graphs and say something about what it all means.

The weird part? I actually enjoy doing this kind of work, even if it does get tedious at times. But my eyes think I've been looking at the computer screen for quite long enough, so time to go, get some exercise and get some sleep...