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kareinaI blame it on the heat--it is so hot I don't really want to spend longer at the computer than I really need to.
Yesterday was delightful--I spent a good chunk of the day in the microprobe lab with one of my colleagues, who was analysing the minerals grown in one of her experiments. Not only was the work interesting, but the room is so air-conditioned that it was necessary to go home and grab something warm to wear to be in the room. This is a good thing. (Anyone interested in more technical details about the difference between what I shall be doing on this job and what I did for my PhD, check out my other blog.)
Of course a huge down side to not wanting to be near the heat-generating computer is that I'm not making as fast of progress as I would like in reading the background literature that I downloaded. I suppose I could print it, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having obtained them in pdf. Pity I don't have something like a Kindle or Iphone set up to read such things. I suspect that they'd be cooler than the computer is.
I have been enjoying having an apartment to myself since the others moved out last weekend. Alas, I've heard back from the housing office, and they will not rent me the entire flat to myself. Therefore I will need to find a place to move. I'd like it to be at least as close, if not closer than my current flat (which is four blocks from here, but two of them are *very* short blocks). It has been nice being able to run home in the middle of the day to get things without losing time.
I have also heard from the shipping company--my things are still in Melbourne, waiting to board a ship for Europe. They are thinking it will be a couple of weeks before that happens. This means that I will have to do without my stuff for far longer than I wanted to. However, it does mean that I can take my time with the apartment search and wait till I find the perfect one before I move.
Another downside to the heat is that I've not really made any progress in cleaning out my in-boxes and replying to all of the unanswered mail which has been accumulating for months while I first finished up my thesis and then did the travel.
Likewise, I'm not making any progress on papers for publication. If it would only cool off at night, I'd be able to go nocturnal and work then, but while it is cooler, it is still warm enough that being near the computer isn't as nice as being in a different room. This is weird, I'm accustomed to the computer being one of my closest friends, and enjoying snuggling right up to it.
But that is enough on that subject.
Yesterday was delightful--I spent a good chunk of the day in the microprobe lab with one of my colleagues, who was analysing the minerals grown in one of her experiments. Not only was the work interesting, but the room is so air-conditioned that it was necessary to go home and grab something warm to wear to be in the room. This is a good thing. (Anyone interested in more technical details about the difference between what I shall be doing on this job and what I did for my PhD, check out my other blog.)
Of course a huge down side to not wanting to be near the heat-generating computer is that I'm not making as fast of progress as I would like in reading the background literature that I downloaded. I suppose I could print it, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having obtained them in pdf. Pity I don't have something like a Kindle or Iphone set up to read such things. I suspect that they'd be cooler than the computer is.
I have been enjoying having an apartment to myself since the others moved out last weekend. Alas, I've heard back from the housing office, and they will not rent me the entire flat to myself. Therefore I will need to find a place to move. I'd like it to be at least as close, if not closer than my current flat (which is four blocks from here, but two of them are *very* short blocks). It has been nice being able to run home in the middle of the day to get things without losing time.
I have also heard from the shipping company--my things are still in Melbourne, waiting to board a ship for Europe. They are thinking it will be a couple of weeks before that happens. This means that I will have to do without my stuff for far longer than I wanted to. However, it does mean that I can take my time with the apartment search and wait till I find the perfect one before I move.
Another downside to the heat is that I've not really made any progress in cleaning out my in-boxes and replying to all of the unanswered mail which has been accumulating for months while I first finished up my thesis and then did the travel.
Likewise, I'm not making any progress on papers for publication. If it would only cool off at night, I'd be able to go nocturnal and work then, but while it is cooler, it is still warm enough that being near the computer isn't as nice as being in a different room. This is weird, I'm accustomed to the computer being one of my closest friends, and enjoying snuggling right up to it.
But that is enough on that subject.
