Remember that job I applied for? I got the offer today, I will be starting 1 October as a half-time research engineer for the new Laser ICP MS we are getting.

I made it into the office this morning, where I managed to work my way through the first sub-section of the suggested edits to the results section of the paper. Hopefully I will go back tomorrow (ok, later today if one wishes to get technical about it) and do the next part. However, reviewer #2 (the one who was enthusiastic about offering edits to ( Read more... )

As I type this it is New Year's Eve-there are occasional sounds from outside of people's fireworks being shot off, and I am contentedly curled up at home with my sweetie, who is at the next computer, within easy reach ( Read more... )

There is still official paperwork to be dealt with, but as of 1 November I will be a Researcher at the Luleå University of Technology (which is a 10 minute walk from my home). It will be a two-year contract, full time position, and has the option for an additional two years thereafter if all goes well. The focus of the position will be research, ( Read more... )

I am very, very content with life these days. This weekend included a Swedish folk singing workshop on Saturday. We gathered at 10:00 at the old one-room school house in Gammelstaden ("old town/place) where we do our weekly dancing and folk music) and started the morning with stretching and warming up before singing. The others had been to prior ( Read more... )

Today I slept in several short naps--the first part of the day the waking bits between naps alternated between keeping my personal in-box empty/reading LJ/FB/blogs, and accomplishing useful tasks (like cooking). I didn't start actually doing work related stuff till late in the day. Despite that I've still put in more than five full hours of work, ( Read more... )

Perhaps I should get back into doing daily progress reports--the last few days I've not been doing posts, and progress has been slow. One might argue that it is a weekend and that one isn't meant to make progress on work on the weekends, but I am aware that I will be doing sightseeing with blamebrampton on Tuesday, therefore I *ought* to be working on the ( Read more... )

I am certainly on night shift these days. This is probably good as I am doing most of my non-work stuff (including reading e-mail, boking travel, etc.) in the mornings, and don't settle down to actual work until I've been up for a number of hours. As a result it is needful to keep working late into the night, to get a reasonable number of hours of ( Read more... )

I have been enjoying being home--while I have lots and lots on my to-do list, I have no specific time-commitments till I meet mom at the airport next weekend. Granted, Friday and Saturday this has meant a fair bit of time relaxing over cooking good food and reading fiction. I've also played a bit with trying to recreate the turning diagram for the ( Read more... )

Have I really not posted a progress report since returning from Ireland? Shame on me. Let's see ( Read more... )