another weekend slipped by so quickly

Progress report: This weekend I discovered that my packing brain should not have been permitted to go any where near my uni work. I ran one final experiment in December, and analysed on 21 Dec, just before finishing up packing all of my possessions to go into storage. On the day I did the analysis I recorded that the smaller of the two capsules, which has no garnet in it, was the NM composition. The other capsule contained anthophyllite. Every other sample which contains anthophyllite is the NP composition. This weekend I finally sat down to do the last of the data processing for that sample and discovered that when I converted the sample names from the codes of "small" and "large" to actually showing the "NM" and "NP" labels I somehow did it backwards, and said that the one without garnet was NP and the one with anthophyllite was NM. Ooops.

Of course I discovered this error when it was time to get ready to head out the door to gaming on Saturday. Gaming was followed by a 1.5 hour drive to archinonlive's brother's house for the brother's wife's birthday. This was the last of his siblings I've met, and I am please to report that I like all of them. They are all intelligent, articulate people who carry on interesting conversations in fluent English.

Sunday was folk dancing, and much fun as always, so I didn't get around to fixing the above mentioned error till today. But it is now fixed (after triple checking that it was, in fact an error) and I am ready to move on to the next step in actually getting this research turned into a paper.

Today I accomplished laundry, uni work, and tonight was the other folk dancing class, and was also much fun. Afterwards I read another couple of pages in the Swedish Children's book we are working on. My pronunciation is getting better, but still needs much help.

Tomorrow I have uni work to do, and Swedish language class to attend, and in the evening choir practice. No wonder I'm not posting as often as I used to do...

silly songs and some progress

Tonight's choir practice had us practising Star Wars (John Williams Is The Man). I'd not heard it before; someone had much, much too much fun writing that (if anyone wants the sheet music, let me know, archinonlivetells me we've got it in noteworthy composer format).

I'm now more than half way through the Swedish for Beginners class 1a, and my enrolment still hasn't been approved. Their system here is weird--one must apply for classes on line, but then if they decide not to approve it one has to turn in a printed form, sent snail mail to some other city. In my case they didn't say why, just that "this course has been deleted because you are not qualified". My teacher says there are no required qualifications for this course and she wants my enrolment taken care of before the exam, which is in two weeks. Sigh. I don't really care about getting credit for the class, I just want the information.

Today's uni progress was minor, but important--got a few pages of graphs and diagrams, including all of the new data (with correct labels this time) e-mailed off to my boss. I've got a few more to create and some calculations to do before I can actually do the writing (though I *could* do the writing of the intro section without knowing the results, did start that part ages ago).