Phd Update, Wedding
I'm about a month into my PhD now. As I mentioned, my project is on making geological maps of the moon (properly it's making elemental abundance maps- as in the percentage weight of each element, mapped out for the whole lunar surface). Of course being only a month in I'm mainly background reading, but I've started reading/doing more relavent things now. It helps that the satellite my instrument is on has only just launched (follow the link for the launch video!) last wednesday, so everyone involved is enthusiastic. It's going to be hard work for a while, but interesting and hopefully worthwhile. It helps that the other grad students are good people, and that my supervisors are decent.
I'm already being sent away for meetings and things- I went down to RAL last tuesday, then straight down to London to stay with my Dad for a few days before the wedding. He's got an ace flat just next to canary wharf, so I spent a couple of touristy days whizzing around the city/ getting very drunk in bars full of bankers, while still managing to get to the Natural History Museum for some research in their frankly amazing (to a geek like me) mineral room. For the wedding my dad had kindly agreed to hand over his flat to anyone who wanted to stay, so Bryn, Liz, Simon Dan, Claire and Matt stayed round- it was great to have them all there. The wedding was fun as hell- you couldn't get a more central location. Sipping a beer out on the steps with the Eye next to you and Westminister across the river was pretty special. Alec and Suz looked so happy too- have a good honeymoon guys.
I'm already being sent away for meetings and things- I went down to RAL last tuesday, then straight down to London to stay with my Dad for a few days before the wedding. He's got an ace flat just next to canary wharf, so I spent a couple of touristy days whizzing around the city/ getting very drunk in bars full of bankers, while still managing to get to the Natural History Museum for some research in their frankly amazing (to a geek like me) mineral room. For the wedding my dad had kindly agreed to hand over his flat to anyone who wanted to stay, so Bryn, Liz, Simon Dan, Claire and Matt stayed round- it was great to have them all there. The wedding was fun as hell- you couldn't get a more central location. Sipping a beer out on the steps with the Eye next to you and Westminister across the river was pretty special. Alec and Suz looked so happy too- have a good honeymoon guys.