an adventerous day

Wishing a most wondrous birthday to both eithni and grian_ruadh. Your day is now over here, but still reasonably early in the day your time. I celebrated with a fun D&D game destroying zombies & capturing the nasty necromancer. May your day bring you good adventures with much less ick in them!

Progress report: Went in to uni today, looked at a few samples so I could write their sample descriptions, did so, and sent chapter five off to my advisor. Spoke with my advisor, spoke with another colleague with whom I'll be writing a paper later and worked out our strategy for next week's monazite dating, and brought the sample to be dated over to the micro probe lab so that it can be carbon coated before then. Went home and did some work on chapter three before gaming. Tomorrow: see how far through chapter three I can get...

an adventerous day

Wishing a most wondrous birthday to both eithni and grian_ruadh. Your day is now over here, but still reasonably early in the day your time. I celebrated with a fun D&D game destroying zombies & capturing the nasty necromancer. May your day bring you good adventures with much less ick in them!

Progress report: Went in to uni today, looked at a few samples so I could write their sample descriptions, did so, and sent chapter five off to my advisor. Spoke with my advisor, spoke with another colleague with whom I'll be writing a paper later and worked out our strategy for next week's monazite dating, and brought the sample to be dated over to the micro probe lab so that it can be carbon coated before then. Went home and did some work on chapter three before gaming. Tomorrow: see how far through chapter three I can get...

another riviting progress report from the student down under

Over seven hours of uni work today, editing chapter three. The (much) improved description of that sample + the new calculations for pressure and temperature formation (most of the time elapsed) resulted in 58 new words for the chapter total. Somehow, it doesn't look like much when reduced to a total like that, but I'm much happier with that, tiny, segment of the chapter. Tomorrow: repeat this for the other few samples from that region for which I can do these sorts of calculations. Hopefully that will take less time, and I can move on to the other portion of the chapter as well. Not much else to report, other than being overjoyed to find yet more folk from highschool* on Facebook. One of whom I had the biggest crush on...

*for those of you who don't know, I went to the world's best highschool--an alternative school which gave the students an amazing amount of power over the school and our education. As a result, my school experiance was far, far more positive than most, and therefore it is wonderful to find old friends from there again.

another riviting progress report from the student down under

Over seven hours of uni work today, editing chapter three. The (much) improved description of that sample + the new calculations for pressure and temperature formation (most of the time elapsed) resulted in 58 new words for the chapter total. Somehow, it doesn't look like much when reduced to a total like that, but I'm much happier with that, tiny, segment of the chapter. Tomorrow: repeat this for the other few samples from that region for which I can do these sorts of calculations. Hopefully that will take less time, and I can move on to the other portion of the chapter as well. Not much else to report, other than being overjoyed to find yet more folk from highschool* on Facebook. One of whom I had the biggest crush on...

*for those of you who don't know, I went to the world's best highschool--an alternative school which gave the students an amazing amount of power over the school and our education. As a result, my school experiance was far, far more positive than most, and therefore it is wonderful to find old friends from there again.