dodgy draft sent
Jul. 31st, 2008 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaThis 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...
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...
