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- I've communicated more with my former office mate (via e-mail - she's now working at MIT's Lincoln Lab) in the last two weeks than I think I did the entire time she shared the office with me (almost 2 years). Of course, she was ABD during the time we were both here and not in the office all that much, especially for the 2nd year when she and her hubby moved and had a similar commute to my former one. I'm trying to fill in some of the things she didn't get done for her dissertation.
- One of my advisor's NSF proposals that will likely fund my PhD work involves a field campaign researching ice processes in clouds (yay! We're all more than a little tired of warm rain in the lab here). One might expect such a campaign to be carried out in Michigan, or Canada, or maybe Greenland. Nope. It's supposedly going to be in the same place as the warm rain campaign whose data I'm using right now - the Caribbean.
- Still need to early vote. Going to head over to Payless when I leave here after lunch and see what the line is like. It was along the entire storefront the other night when Toni and I checked.
- This weekend may be the first (and last) weekend free of school obligations for a while. Math class had a sub Monday and yesterday, and no class tomorrow, and I doubt my advisor has had a chance to bleed on my two thesis chapter drafts yet. Hopefully I can finally get my office unpacked and start on the library. Want to try to catch up on House, too.
- After deciding last week not to go to the AMS conference in Phoenix in January for several reasons, I learned this week that one of my lab mates, my former office mate mentioned above, and my advisor all have presentations that I should see. So, I'm going to try to make it out to Phoenix the Saturday before (so I get a cheaper Saturday-stay airfare) and go at least to Monday and Tuesday's presentations if not the whole conference. I've always wanted to spend some time there and I know people there (including some here on LJ :-)), but was thinking I'd need to sit this one out. Wrong!
- Toni's going to Chicagoland in a couple of weeks so I'll get a weekend alone in early November. We love spending time together, but we each need alone time, too, and it's harder for me to get with her working from home. I'll probably have school stuff to do, of course.
- Got my haircut yesterday, first time up here. I love my Noblesville barber, but he's just too far now. I'd been putting it off for so long because I haven't been sure of where to go. With my hair, I'm leery of stylists who want to do stuff with it. I learned years ago it's going to do what it wants so don't fight it. Went to the same place (but different stylist) Toni has been going since we moved, and the verdict is still out. Didn't get it as short as usual, because I'm not used to trying to describe the right way to cut it to someone.
- One of my advisor's NSF proposals that will likely fund my PhD work involves a field campaign researching ice processes in clouds (yay! We're all more than a little tired of warm rain in the lab here). One might expect such a campaign to be carried out in Michigan, or Canada, or maybe Greenland. Nope. It's supposedly going to be in the same place as the warm rain campaign whose data I'm using right now - the Caribbean.
- Still need to early vote. Going to head over to Payless when I leave here after lunch and see what the line is like. It was along the entire storefront the other night when Toni and I checked.
- This weekend may be the first (and last) weekend free of school obligations for a while. Math class had a sub Monday and yesterday, and no class tomorrow, and I doubt my advisor has had a chance to bleed on my two thesis chapter drafts yet. Hopefully I can finally get my office unpacked and start on the library. Want to try to catch up on House, too.
- After deciding last week not to go to the AMS conference in Phoenix in January for several reasons, I learned this week that one of my lab mates, my former office mate mentioned above, and my advisor all have presentations that I should see. So, I'm going to try to make it out to Phoenix the Saturday before (so I get a cheaper Saturday-stay airfare) and go at least to Monday and Tuesday's presentations if not the whole conference. I've always wanted to spend some time there and I know people there (including some here on LJ :-)), but was thinking I'd need to sit this one out. Wrong!
- Toni's going to Chicagoland in a couple of weeks so I'll get a weekend alone in early November. We love spending time together, but we each need alone time, too, and it's harder for me to get with her working from home. I'll probably have school stuff to do, of course.
- Got my haircut yesterday, first time up here. I love my Noblesville barber, but he's just too far now. I'd been putting it off for so long because I haven't been sure of where to go. With my hair, I'm leery of stylists who want to do stuff with it. I learned years ago it's going to do what it wants so don't fight it. Went to the same place (but different stylist) Toni has been going since we moved, and the verdict is still out. Didn't get it as short as usual, because I'm not used to trying to describe the right way to cut it to someone.
