One submitted proposal

I arrived at the office st 06:45 this morning and worked non stop till 17:35. I ran two experiments on the laser, and while they were running worked on the proposal. My advisor suggested adding a couple of citations on the use of petrology in archaeology, so I spent some time trying to find the record of a paper I remember reading last year on that topic.

In the process I started setting up a tool that will be very useful later: Scrivener folder under the Literature section called "topics", and I started a few cards for topics I have needed to cite papers on so far, with links to the papers, and on the card for the paper a link to the topic cards. I have only gotten through the first part of the pile of papers I have, but will get to the others, and new papers will get this treatment from the beginning. Luckily, I have been keeping notes all along saying why and when I downloaded the various papers, which makes it easy to apply a initial topic to each of them.

When I had a good draft of the proposal I went home, had popcorn for dinner while reading (and listening to) the Swedish translation of Anne of Avonlea. Then I returned to the grant proposal.

Managed to get it both finished and sent today. However I needed to go back to the office to finish it.

When it was done I couldn't print to pdf from the home computer, so I tried restarting. To be greeted with "repairing the C drive", and a notification of what % progress it had accomplished. So I called David, he could confirm that the document had been safely saved to the server, so I went in and finished it up there. It is noce when the auto backup system works.

The next proposal is due at the end of the month...