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kareinaTonight I managed to finally get started on the embroidery for the sleeves on the 12th century dress I started six month ago on the lovely 3-in-1 wool twill I bought at the last Medieval Week I attended. The neck embroidery is done, but since it took six months to accomplish just the neck, doing the sleeves are likely to take a rather long time.
Today was the first Ore Geology Seminar for the year at LTU. This is a new thing we are starting, and the hope was that it would be a good place for our PhD students and researchers to share their work in progress and get good ideas. So far so good--today's presentation was on a structural geology regional research project here in Norrbotten. He showed pictures of some troublesome thin sections. While most of the samples from the area have kinematic indicators with one sense of shear direction, a few of the ones with K-feldspar porphyroblasts show the opposite direction. He noted that, in the case of the ones which show the opposite sense of movement that the pressure shadows are very weakly developed, and perhaps he can discount these as not being a very good reflection of the deformational system. This prompted another of us to point out that he could send the samples to the really good SEM with EDS down south and they can measure the C-axis orientation, which could help answer the question as to the true sense of shear. Several of us now sound rather interested in using this technology...
And, finally, the reason I am posting tonight after Nyckelharpa, when I should have already done my yoga and gone to bed. Week 8's summary of how I spent my hours (now that week 9 has started):
I managed to get LTU back on track after week 7's downturn, but my Durham work suffered (five of those nine hours were accomplished on Sunday, after deciding to start sharing my totals). If I hadn't exceeded my social goal by 10 hours, and had put that energy into working on my thesis instead. It would also have been good to use those extra five hours of useful task time to work out a bit more. But at least I finally did a bit of music--singing in Choir. Now if I would just tune my poor dulcimer, which has been sitting neglected all year--I have only touched it to show it off to visitors, and then with an apology that it has been too long since it was last tuned (even I can hear that it is off, which is saying something).
Today was the first Ore Geology Seminar for the year at LTU. This is a new thing we are starting, and the hope was that it would be a good place for our PhD students and researchers to share their work in progress and get good ideas. So far so good--today's presentation was on a structural geology regional research project here in Norrbotten. He showed pictures of some troublesome thin sections. While most of the samples from the area have kinematic indicators with one sense of shear direction, a few of the ones with K-feldspar porphyroblasts show the opposite direction. He noted that, in the case of the ones which show the opposite sense of movement that the pressure shadows are very weakly developed, and perhaps he can discount these as not being a very good reflection of the deformational system. This prompted another of us to point out that he could send the samples to the really good SEM with EDS down south and they can measure the C-axis orientation, which could help answer the question as to the true sense of shear. Several of us now sound rather interested in using this technology...
And, finally, the reason I am posting tonight after Nyckelharpa, when I should have already done my yoga and gone to bed. Week 8's summary of how I spent my hours (now that week 9 has started):
| Goal: | 56 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 2 |
| sleep | useful tasks | Durham | LTU | social | exercise | entertainment | make music | |
| Week 1 | 48 | 40 | 0 | 13 | 37 | 15 | 14 | 0 |
| Week 2 | 56 | 38 | 20 | 14 | 20 | 7 | 15 | 0 |
| Week 3 | 52 | 25 | 11 | 24 | 37 | 12 | 6 | 0 |
| Week 4 | 54 | 25 | 44 | 1 | 25 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Week 5 | 53 | 28 | 38 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 14 | 0 |
| Week 6 | 52 | 38 | 9 | 22 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 0 |
| Week 7 | 51 | 29 | 8 | 17 | 23 | 19 | 22 | 0 |
| Week 8 | 50 | 35 | 9 | 23 | 30 | 11 | 10 | 1 |
I managed to get LTU back on track after week 7's downturn, but my Durham work suffered (five of those nine hours were accomplished on Sunday, after deciding to start sharing my totals). If I hadn't exceeded my social goal by 10 hours, and had put that energy into working on my thesis instead. It would also have been good to use those extra five hours of useful task time to work out a bit more. But at least I finally did a bit of music--singing in Choir. Now if I would just tune my poor dulcimer, which has been sitting neglected all year--I have only touched it to show it off to visitors, and then with an apology that it has been too long since it was last tuned (even I can hear that it is off, which is saying something).