Managed it, but the hard way

[kareina]

I had long since given up on ever obtaining decent results for one of my samples. However, when my advisor read the part of my thesis which described the manner in which I wasn't getting results, he suggested I try one last technique. So the past couple of days I've been working on that (when not working on job applications). Wednesday I determined that the technique does, in fact, give me a decent estimate for the temperature and pressure at which the garnet cores formed. Thursday I started working on trying various paths to see which, if any, lead to the rim composition. This morning I found one, worked everything through, went to write up the results, but first read over what I'd written before. That's when I realized that I'd been using the wrong rim composition. Oops. Back to the drawing board, do it all again, with the correct target numbers this time. After several more hours of work, I've finally got a decent match for the rim which gives an estimate for the temperature and pressure. However, it is now after midnight and I'm sleepy, so the writing-up will have to wait till tomorrow.

Comments

typo!

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Good luck! You were *very* sleepy, I can tell.
You gave your poor research a case of mange instead of managing it! lol

Re: typo!

[kareina.livejournal.com]

lol! If I'm going to have a typo due to being tired, it always winds up in the subject line. I use Firefox, which has a built-in spell-checker when filling in text-boxes on line. Alas, that function doesn't apply to the smaller sort of boxes, like the subject line. When I'm awake I either look careful at what I've typed in the subject line, or type it in the message box and then, when it doesn't show any red-wavy lines, drag it up to the subject box. Alas, getting sleepy will cause me to forget about the difference between the two boxes, and I've got just enough dyslexia to often not see errors in a word which is more or less the correct shape. Fortunately, they let us go back an edit things after the fact, so while the record of the error is here, it won't show up for anyone scrolling past and skipping the comments... :-)

PS Firefox's spell checker doesn't have as large of a vocabulary as many others, it doesn't happen to know the word "Firefox".

Re: typo!

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. It happens to me too.