dodgy draft sent

[kareina]

This morning I woke up around 04:15 thinking about the fact that I'd described one of my samples as having crenulation cleavage (term actually defined here) based upon a photo I've got, and wondered if any of the others have similar deformation. So I got up, packed my computer and some breakfast, and went in to Uni to look at the samples themselves. What a lovely time to be on the road--there is no traffic at all, and there are plenty of places to park! I checked every sample, making note of textural features, went to the gym, and the grocery store, and still made it home by 09:30! Then managed to do a bit more work over the course of the day (though I wound up taking two short naps as well).

This evening, realizing that tomorrow is August already, I gathered up what I've done with chapter two (the main portion of my thesis--covering the the results for a major part of Tasmania I've actually been to and collected some of my own rock samples!) and sent it off to my advisor, complete with randomly placed highlighted notes to myself in lurid shades of dreadful colours (so I can't miss them and leave them in the final version) stating what still needs to be done in those areas. That chapter broke 20,000 words, and there are still holes in what needs to be said (and chunks of it may well get relegated to an appendix in the final thesis, details that need to be stated somewhere, but aren't the important/exciting bits).

Now, while I wait for his comments, I can move on and start work on the South West coast section (samples I've studied that were collected by others, generally back in the 1980's). With a whole lot of luck, I can summarize all of the results from down there before he replies telling me what more he thinks I need to do for chapter two...

Comments

Well Done!

[massaria.livejournal.com]

Wow! You seem to be making good progress. Thesis writing is such a drain and it's hard to maintain momentum but you seem to be doing great! 20,000 words is about what my main results chapter was and once I had that done the rest of the thesis was pretty straightforward. It's always good to get to this point and send a copy off to your advisor - well done Kareina!

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

Your heading is unfair to those of us not fully awake on the other side of the world.

"Karenia's too old to get drafted! And she's a GIRL! And which country drafted her? Good thing we have SCAdians all over the world who will hide her while she dodges the... oh. THAT kind of draft."

[kareina.livejournal.com]

lol! Funny how when focused upon one aspect of one's life, one forgets about the other uses for words which have come to have only one meaning in the context at hand...