road trip for work

Today was a nine hour work day, during which I accomplished printing that thin section report I mentioned yesterday (it is about 1 cm thick when printed double-sided--130 pages will do that) giving a 30 minute presentation, listened to two other presentations by my uni colleagues, met briefly with my colleagues at the mine (who say they are pleased with what I have accomplished over these past two years, which is a relief, since I, of course, think it isn't enough), and rode in the car two and from Boliden (two hours each way).

I got home well early enough that I could have made it to jodo training tonight, but realized that if I wanted to bake a cake for tomorrow's dance practice tonight way my only opportunity, so lord_kjar went to practice without me and I stayed home, baked the cake, ironed my Lucia robes for Friday's choir performance, washed a load of laundry, typed up the lyrics for the songs we are singing so that I will have thought about the words once before the performance, and found clip art to represent each song and printed the two songs I actually need help with the words and all of the clip art, in the correct order, onto a piece of paper the same size as the paper plates we use as a candle base. The other kids in the choir tend to hand-write the lyrics they want reminders for onto the plates, but I thought it made more sense to print it.

I really ought to have been working this evening, since I didn't do any modeling all day, nor have I made any progress on my report, but I left my work computer at my office after getting back to town this evening--it seemed like a smart idea, since I need to meet a student tomorrow morning to talk to her about helping with the petrology part of my research. I rather enjoyed the evening off.