calculations revisited
May. 11th, 2009 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaAs I worked on the summary of results for my final chapter, I realized that I'd never actually finished the calculations for the whiteschist. Since whiteschists have been taken as an indicator of high pressure metamorphism since the 1970's it was rather important to go back and fill in that gap. Fortunately, this time when I went to work with those numbers, everything fell into place, and, at long last, I've got numbers for pressure and temperature assigned to that sample. Now that that is done (and it took all weekend), I need to resume writing of the final chapter. I wonder if I'll discover any other glaring gaps in my data, or if that was the last of them...
In other news, back on Thursday I took a couple of hours off and went to see the latest Star Trek movie, and loved every second of it! I was quite pleased with how well they managed to match most of the actors to the characters such that I could believe that it really was the individual I knew and loved, if somewhat younger than I'd ever seen them before. Granted, it helps that I rarely see movies or watch TV, because all of the actors were new to me--I understand that some people found it difficult to cope with a couple of the choices because they already knew those actors from elsewhere. I also very much enjoyed the story and watching it unfold. One of my friends replied to my Facebook status update about seeing the film with surprise that I actually went to the theater and saw a movie. I countered that I do see movies now and again, when they make a particularly tempting one. In recent years I've seen all of the Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Star Wars movies that have come out. However, I think that is all I've seen. I think I've also seen about four or five movies on the small screen at people's homes in the past few years, but just now I can't remember more than one of them, and then don't recall the title, but it involved a woman who used to be a star...
I still can't tell from here if I'm going to achieve the goal of thesis printed, bound, and submitted at the end of the month. I think I can do it, but these extra diversions doing calculations that should have been done ages ago are worrisome. However, if it doesn't happen, it won't be because I've been goofing off. Proof positive that I've been working more hours than normal: today on a lark I decided to set up cells in the spreadsheet which tracks the number of hours I spend each day doing various categories of things--this time the new cells answers the questions "how many more hours a week do I spend sleeping than I spend doing uni work". For most of the last year that number has been 20 to 25 more hours a week spent sleeping than doing uni work. This month I'm only getting five hours a week more of sleep than of uni work! Speaking of which--I think it is time for yoga, mediation, and sleep! I've already done my 1000 words of reading for the day...
In other news, back on Thursday I took a couple of hours off and went to see the latest Star Trek movie, and loved every second of it! I was quite pleased with how well they managed to match most of the actors to the characters such that I could believe that it really was the individual I knew and loved, if somewhat younger than I'd ever seen them before. Granted, it helps that I rarely see movies or watch TV, because all of the actors were new to me--I understand that some people found it difficult to cope with a couple of the choices because they already knew those actors from elsewhere. I also very much enjoyed the story and watching it unfold. One of my friends replied to my Facebook status update about seeing the film with surprise that I actually went to the theater and saw a movie. I countered that I do see movies now and again, when they make a particularly tempting one. In recent years I've seen all of the Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Star Wars movies that have come out. However, I think that is all I've seen. I think I've also seen about four or five movies on the small screen at people's homes in the past few years, but just now I can't remember more than one of them, and then don't recall the title, but it involved a woman who used to be a star...
I still can't tell from here if I'm going to achieve the goal of thesis printed, bound, and submitted at the end of the month. I think I can do it, but these extra diversions doing calculations that should have been done ages ago are worrisome. However, if it doesn't happen, it won't be because I've been goofing off. Proof positive that I've been working more hours than normal: today on a lark I decided to set up cells in the spreadsheet which tracks the number of hours I spend each day doing various categories of things--this time the new cells answers the questions "how many more hours a week do I spend sleeping than I spend doing uni work". For most of the last year that number has been 20 to 25 more hours a week spent sleeping than doing uni work. This month I'm only getting five hours a week more of sleep than of uni work! Speaking of which--I think it is time for yoga, mediation, and sleep! I've already done my 1000 words of reading for the day...
