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... )

Friday morning I worked & had a meeting with my boss. Was reasonably happy with what I accomplished, but have tons more I want done ASAP.

Friday afternoon mom and I drove out to Schnals Valley. When I went there at the beginning of Sept for the Textile Forum it took 4 hours on train + 30 more minutes in a car. In a rental car it takes only 4 ( Read more... )

It has been a week and a half since I returned to Milan from my 3.5 weeks of back-to-back conferences and short courses. Therefore I decided to go look at the to-do list I created when I got home and report on my progress (and/or lack thereof):

* hang up the clothes that are being washed as I type Not only did that washing get done, dried, and put ( Read more... )

One of the things which has been lurking on the bottom of my to-do list for quite a while now is to go through the literature to find the mentions of talc and see how the natural rocks compare with my experiments. Given how many other work-related tasks I've had to do, it has been put off in favor of more urgent tasks. However, it is something ( Read more... )

In the past 24 days I've attended three conferences and one short course, ridden one plane and 20 trains to travel between them, toured a salt mine, and attended a traditional lamb dinner in a 14th Century house in the beautiful Schnals valley in the Alps. I'll try to make time to write it all up, later, but in the mean time I need to list ( Read more... )

in the past day and a half I have ( Read more... )

I've just taken an entire day off of uni work. My first since May. Well, I did read my 1000 words of geologic literature, but while interesting and informative, and certainly uni related, it does not progress the thesis (though one could argue that doing this reading every day does improve the overall quality of the thesis ( Read more... )