Worked from home on Friday, processing my t-test results for the study of steepness correlation with lithology. The results look promising to first order, but as with everything else in life, the devil's in the detail, and I'm going to have to take a really close look at how what I'm seeing maps onto actual rocks before I can jump to any ( Read more... )

Once again, as I'm sure you can all imagine, I've managed to fill my life to the brim and then some with all kinds of different things-to-do, and blogging has been bumped down pretty low on the priority list. Fortunately, though, for all I may be ridiculously busy, I feel pretty relaxed about everything. Andrew remarked the other day that I don't ( Read more... )

Somebody is interested in buying my bed ...

... and I have the first two thousand words of my honors thesis written, including a more or less functioning introduction that transitions into my history section! That's hopefully over ten percent!

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My not-yet-extant honors thesis is basically all contained within the pages of this book. 9 out of 10 original ideas that I have had in the process of researching this thing occur in about 3 chapters of this book.

Can you legitimately reinvent the wheel if you didn't know it existed?

My apologies for this non-post, but this entry is mostly a "Note to Self". My self-discipline is vanishing at an alarming rate, and so I'm reverting to my old habit of making to-do lists to keep myself on track ( Read more... )

I've been going to sleep too late lately. (No, I am not writing this entry at 1 am! What are you talking about ( Read more... )

WHY CAN I NOT SEEM TO PUT A SINGLE WORD DOWN ON THE PAGE WHEN IT COMES TO THIS DAMN HONORS THESIS?

Guh. Just don't know what to write. I have no thesis statement, no proper outline, just some fragmented ideas and sources and not very much besides. And the words won't come...