Managed it, but the hard way

[kareina]

I had long since given up on ever obtaining decent results for one of my samples. However, when my advisor read the part of my thesis which described the manner in which I wasn't getting results, he suggested I try one last technique. So the past couple of days I've been working on that (when not working on job applications). Wednesday I determined that the technique does, in fact, give me a decent estimate for the temperature and pressure at which the garnet cores formed. Thursday I started working on trying various paths to see which, if any, lead to the rim composition. This morning I found one, worked everything through, went to write up the results, but first read over what I'd written before. That's when I realized that I'd been using the wrong rim composition. Oops. Back to the drawing board, do it all again, with the correct target numbers this time. After several more hours of work, I've finally got a decent match for the rim which gives an estimate for the temperature and pressure. However, it is now after midnight and I'm sleepy, so the writing-up will have to wait till tomorrow.