Now that feels like I've done something!

[kareina]

Other than a nice longish walk with clovis_t this afternoon, I've spent most of the day doing useful uni stuff. As a result I've written 1,192 words and done three new figures. *much* better than I've been doing the past few days (well, ever since I took that day off to turn in that application for an extension). Today's progress helps, but I sure hope I can keep this sort of rate up--I need to--that application form said that I'd been averaging 4000 words a week (which I had been), but this past week that had slipped--today's push only just gets the average back up to that level again.

Fortunately, it is all still interesting. For any of you who haven't yet done your PhD (or even a Master's or Honour's thesis), when you do one of them, don't do what I did--do your writing as you go--every time you do something to collect data, promptly write up what you did and what the results were and make your figures while you remember what you were looking at--while I have looked at all of this data before, because I didn't do more than cryptic notes in my daily "what I did today" log, I'm having to almost re-do some of my work to figure out what I need to say about it. Of course, I'm also discovering some things I *didn't* notice the first time through--sometimes I looked at the pictures of the garnets and the garnet graphs, but didn't import them into the same program so that I could line the one up against the other. One of today's samples has a really, really obvious visual change between the core and the rim, and it has a really obvious change in composition between core and rim, but unlike all of the other samples which also have a obvious (but very different looking) visual difference between core and rim, this one the compositional change does *not* line up with the visual change!

Hey, I'm at a reasonable breaking point and it isn't midnight yet. I wonder if baronsnorri is available for an evening walk?