I have a major grant application deadline coming up next week, and I have been particularly stressful about coming up with a budget for the proposed project. My boss has been too busy on meeting his own deadlines to be able to talk with me about it. This morning I read over the instructions for the entire application packet again, and this time ( Read more... )

Years ago I was such a good correspondent that I replied to all of the messages in my personal in-box on a daily basis and either deleted or filed every message promptly. An empty in-box was a normal state of being. Then I started that PhD project and a backlog started up. There have been a few occasions in the past 6 years when I actually ( Read more... )

Today I:

* Actually worked some on that paper which should have been done months ago (first time in days).
* Printed and signed all of the 43 pages (two copies each in colour, to be turned in, and one copy in black and white for my files) for my visa application (five official form, a cover letter, and a fair bit of supporting documents)
* Helped archinonlive ( Read more... )

I've accomplished several more crucial tasks towards settling into Milano. With luck I'll get them all done soon and can commence doing the work for which I've been hired. I suspect that it will be much more interesting than the bureaucratic stuff I've been dealing with, and I am ever so grateful to my colleagues here who have been running errands ( Read more... )

The paper for which I am listed as the second author has been officially accepted ! Therefore look for "Petrology of the eclogites from western Tasmania: Insights into the Cambro-Ordovician evolution of the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana" to show up in the journal Lithos sometime soon...