quasigeostrophy | Coming Up…

OK, I haven’t made a blog post here in months, but that should be a clue to my mental state of late. Things have been a bit rough at school, and even at home due to circumstances beyond our control. Feeling somewhat better emotionally, but I am getting more than a little frazzled with everything I need to do. In particular the next 8 days are going to be insane. Making a list here so I can keep myself organized and make sure my task list and calendar are up to date. Let’s see…

Monday, 27 February: Have next reanalysis for modeling paper completed.
Thursday, 1 March: Complete presentation for Midwest Cloud Forum.
Thursday, 1 March: Complete Purdue Grad Student Government Travel Grant application.
Thursday, 1 March: Submit semester project proposal to advisor and her husband for my Numerical Modeling of Clouds & Convective Storms class.
Friday, 2 March: Present preliminary modeling paper results at Midwest Cloud Forum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Atmospheric Science Department.
Tuesday, 6 March: Complete homework of writing, testing, and analyzing a 1D parcel model with entrainment for my modeling class.
Friday, 9 March: Complete outline of prospectus for discussion with advisor.

The week after 9 March is Purdue’s Spring Break, but we’re not going anywhere this year, partly for financial reasons, but also due to work loads. Toni needs to make a trip for work and I have my class project and prospectus to write so that I can try to schedule my Ph.D. preliminary exam before the end of the semester (which I’m not allowed to take until the modeling paper is at least submitted). Somewhere in there, either right before or most likely right after Spring Break, I’ll also have a midterm exam for my class, and I still need to attend at least 2 more department seminars for that required credit (and there aren’t any more scheduled at present until at least the end of March). I also have the following research projects going on:

Examine ICE-T (the field campaign on which my advisor and one of my labmates went this summer and I visited for a week in St. Croix, USVI back in July, 2011) data for an abstract due 1 May for the International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation in Leipzig, Germany, at the end of July, 2012.
Work with the group of visualization engineering graduate students to continue development of a 3D rendering application for aircraft-mounted radar data from the same field campaign.

I’ll survive, but I may not be completely sane by the end of the semester. Of course, that’s presuming I’m in any way partly sane right now.

Originally published at Abnormality Locality. You can comment here or there.