This has been yet another busy week full of progress on projects in addition to the normal round of social activities ( Read more... )

Part way thorough my PhD program I decided to start tracking how I was spending my hours, and set up a spreadsheet to keep track of half a dozen categories ( Read more... )

One of my Facebook friends asked all of us what our goals are for 2010 and how we intend to accomplish them. I hadn't yet thought in those sorts of terms, but now that she's mentioned it, I thought it might be interesting to spend some time this morning doing just that ( Read more... )

On Thursday evening I realized that a major factor in my not having accomplished much uni work for the past couple of days was that I hadn't set myself any specific goals as to what task I'd undertake next--in the absence of something specific to do and knowing only that I needed to do "lots of uni work", it was terribly easy to let myself get ( Read more... )

Over the past few days I've been cleaning up chapter five, with an emphasis on getting the figures consistent, making certain that a figure exists for each figure reference, and there are references in the text for each figure, and coming up with a consistent approach to what things need to be illustrated. In the course of this, I also edited the ( Read more... )