I'm alive... I promise...
Dying of overwork, but alive :)
SXG288 'Practical science: Earth and environment' is both hard work and frustrating as all heck (covering, as it does, no practical science or even statistics; just some fiddling with graphs in Excel). Still, I have high hopes for the residential; being as it is on the Northumbrian coast in late July. I could go for some learning about coastal processes right now. Maybe I could spend the day watching them up close. With some kind of cool alcoholic drink in hand...
S276 'Geology' is drawing to a close, with an exam in early June. I've really enjoyed this course; especially the third book, about fossils and sedimentary environments. Geology is just one great big detective investigation :)
S366 'Evolution' is wonderful and I want its little mutated babies. It's interesting, reading textbooks as a technical writer; you can appreciate them as only an expert in the same invisible skills can. I quite see why Futuyma's catchily-named Evolution is a standard. Plus, full of pretty pictures :)
Actual work is going slightly less well, and yes, probably due to some level of mental exhaustion from all the studying. I haven't dropped all the balls, but I know I'm not producing the kind of work I'm usually capable of. Of course, it doesn't help that there's work here for three writers.
And now I should stop putting off going to it :)