oops, should have made a note of that at the time!

Some time back I did a major edit/hack/slash job to chapter three of my thesis. I cut huge blocks of text and moved them to an appendix and left only the essential bare bones of what really needs to be reported. Unfortunately, when I did this, I failed to update the spreadsheet wherin I'd been keeping track of my word count. Indeed, over the past week or so as I've been focusing primarily on getting the figures for this chapter organized and gathering together all that are going to wind up on a single page into single pages, with some additional editing/changing of the thesis itself as I went, to be certain that the text describes what is in the figures, and the figures appropriately illustrate the text, I've not been doing daily word counts. Most days the changes to the thesis have (probably) been kind of small in terms of number of words gained or lost, but each day I've worked on this series of tasks the thesis has vastly improved. Today, I finally finished up all of the figures for one section of this chapter and started writing the "summary of all of the results for the various samples" (which, for the most part, predict the same temperature and pressure of formation, which is a good thing, since they all come from pretty much the same place, and have probably all undergone the same deformational history). However, because I never did a word count after doing that above mentioned major pruning, the count for today, after adding many figures over the past week or so, and adding a number of paragraphs just now is a grand total of -1052 words and -23 figures. Somehow that just doesn't look as impressive as it should given how much I know I've done on this recently! But even with the (apparent) negative numbers, I feel darn good about where I'm at and what I'm doing with my writing up. No, I'm not done yet, but I can see real progress, and I'm still (usually) enjoying what I'm doing.

Tomorrow morning I get to play with the microprobe. Tomorrow afternoon I get to finally meet a very new (but already surprisingly close) friend in person (hi mushroom_maiden), and tomorrow evening I get to go dancing. In between, I hope, there will me more thesis progress.

oops, should have made a note of that at the time!

Some time back I did a major edit/hack/slash job to chapter three of my thesis. I cut huge blocks of text and moved them to an appendix and left only the essential bare bones of what really needs to be reported. Unfortunately, when I did this, I failed to update the spreadsheet wherin I'd been keeping track of my word count. Indeed, over the past week or so as I've been focusing primarily on getting the figures for this chapter organized and gathering together all that are going to wind up on a single page into single pages, with some additional editing/changing of the thesis itself as I went, to be certain that the text describes what is in the figures, and the figures appropriately illustrate the text, I've not been doing daily word counts. Most days the changes to the thesis have (probably) been kind of small in terms of number of words gained or lost, but each day I've worked on this series of tasks the thesis has vastly improved. Today, I finally finished up all of the figures for one section of this chapter and started writing the "summary of all of the results for the various samples" (which, for the most part, predict the same temperature and pressure of formation, which is a good thing, since they all come from pretty much the same place, and have probably all undergone the same deformational history). However, because I never did a word count after doing that above mentioned major pruning, the count for today, after adding many figures over the past week or so, and adding a number of paragraphs just now is a grand total of -1052 words and -23 figures. Somehow that just doesn't look as impressive as it should given how much I know I've done on this recently! But even with the (apparent) negative numbers, I feel darn good about where I'm at and what I'm doing with my writing up. No, I'm not done yet, but I can see real progress, and I'm still (usually) enjoying what I'm doing.

Tomorrow morning I get to play with the microprobe. Tomorrow afternoon I get to finally meet a very new (but already surprisingly close) friend in person (hi mushroom_maiden), and tomorrow evening I get to go dancing. In between, I hope, there will me more thesis progress.