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I managed to find the Honours co-ordinator today, and gave him my medical certificate for the past two weeks. I was hoping to get an extention to cover all the days that I was sick for, and then hopefully not use all of it - I have to get back to work at some stage.
No problems with the extention, except for one thing: I'd managed to misread the original due date, way back in February... so the thesis is actually due a week earlier than I'd planned! With a full two weeks extra, that's only one more week than I was planning for.
I really should read the fine print more thoroughly before I start these things...
Speaking of fine print and devious agreements, I had a long chat with my supervisor today. Words like "PhD," "scholarship applications" and "CSIRO collaboration" were bandied about. I think he was trying to hint at something, but I just can't put my finger on what that might be. I have been noticing that an awful lot of the people in all the really nice science communications jobs have their doctorates, though - and most of them have formal sci-com qualifications, too.
After (finally) getting the rejection letter I'd assumed would be coming, from Geoscience Australia, I'm starting to realise that I need something more than plain 'ole me if I want to force open those doors. I'd just love to know what to do first - seven years into the uni thing, and I'm looking at new courses around the country.
Why can't I convince myself that I'd like a fly-in-fly-out job on some remote West Australian minesite? I get emails about them from desperate hiring firms, about every day or two - there are hundreds more positions out there than this country has geologists for...
No problems with the extention, except for one thing: I'd managed to misread the original due date, way back in February... so the thesis is actually due a week earlier than I'd planned! With a full two weeks extra, that's only one more week than I was planning for.
I really should read the fine print more thoroughly before I start these things...
Speaking of fine print and devious agreements, I had a long chat with my supervisor today. Words like "PhD," "scholarship applications" and "CSIRO collaboration" were bandied about. I think he was trying to hint at something, but I just can't put my finger on what that might be. I have been noticing that an awful lot of the people in all the really nice science communications jobs have their doctorates, though - and most of them have formal sci-com qualifications, too.
After (finally) getting the rejection letter I'd assumed would be coming, from Geoscience Australia, I'm starting to realise that I need something more than plain 'ole me if I want to force open those doors. I'd just love to know what to do first - seven years into the uni thing, and I'm looking at new courses around the country.
Why can't I convince myself that I'd like a fly-in-fly-out job on some remote West Australian minesite? I get emails about them from desperate hiring firms, about every day or two - there are hundreds more positions out there than this country has geologists for...
