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Real Life is Real and Also Boring
Jul. 16th, 2009 01:24 pmStuck at home until I take care of the fact three out of four pairs of jeans that I own have stains in them and need to be washed. About all I have to do today at work is research meeting, and even that I'm not sure about, since my advisor has Creeping Con Crud* and emailed me to let me know he might not even bother coming in. I haven't done much in the last week, so I'd mostly be sitting around and asking questions about what everyone else has done.
* Or whatever you call it when you fly across the ocean to sit in a room with other people from other places and talk about esoteric things. At least people at scientific conferences/workshops can all be counted on to bathe and not try to live off of the free food provided.
The reason I don't have much done is that Project #1 is waiting for Dr. T to give me some error bars so I can guess whether what I do will be worth it and Project #2 is in the 'all but the paper stage' that needs a lot of help from my advisor, because I haven't written a real paper before. I also have to decide which one goes to Puerto Rico with me (which project, not Dr. T or my advisor, who can decide whether they go or not themselves) in October for the big planetary science conference. I'm thinking Project #2 is at the stage where it would make a decent five-minute talk, especially if the details are coming out in a paper, but Project #1 will need a poster, because it's mathy and full of dynamics, and requires more thought to digest. I'd like to give a talk since I gave a poster last year, but I gave a poster about Project #2 last year.
You know, I really should type up what those are, shouldn't I? Maybe later. ^_^
* Or whatever you call it when you fly across the ocean to sit in a room with other people from other places and talk about esoteric things. At least people at scientific conferences/workshops can all be counted on to bathe and not try to live off of the free food provided.
The reason I don't have much done is that Project #1 is waiting for Dr. T to give me some error bars so I can guess whether what I do will be worth it and Project #2 is in the 'all but the paper stage' that needs a lot of help from my advisor, because I haven't written a real paper before. I also have to decide which one goes to Puerto Rico with me (which project, not Dr. T or my advisor, who can decide whether they go or not themselves) in October for the big planetary science conference. I'm thinking Project #2 is at the stage where it would make a decent five-minute talk, especially if the details are coming out in a paper, but Project #1 will need a poster, because it's mathy and full of dynamics, and requires more thought to digest. I'd like to give a talk since I gave a poster last year, but I gave a poster about Project #2 last year.
You know, I really should type up what those are, shouldn't I? Maybe later. ^_^
