Planning the metaplans...
Aug. 16th, 2004 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morslaLet's see if I can manage to follow a plan, for a change. I'm great at making them, can make sure others follow them, and can embark on them with no problems - but recently, somehow, motivation to finish things slipped away from me. When I find my indecision, I'll nail it back into its coffin, and salt the earth around it. I'm tired of having something eat away at my drive to finish what I started. I'm sure I wasn't always like this...
In case it's relevant to anyone... I'll be out of communication from August 24th 'til probably September 3rd. I fly to Tasmania on the 24th, to stay in accomodation I have yet to find, carrying field gear I have yet to purchase. My last field trip was in the hot, dry terrain of Broken Hill - this time, we're expecting snow in the Tassie highlands. I'm looking forward to the trip, but I have this nagging suspicion that it'll be a little cold... I'll take my camera, and see if I can get some photos while I'm away.
The day I get back to Melbourne, I rush home from the airport and drop off my muddy field gear - and go straight back to the airport again, to fly to Canberra. At least I'll be indoors there... I have one day of labwork (LAM ICP-MS - "Laser Ablation Microprobe, Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy" for those who like long acronymns) where I burn holes in my samples with a laser :-) After that, I have to learn how to do the data regressions that will give me some useable results for my project...
There will be game geekery in another post this week, as I frantically try to finish painting for a tournament this weekend. I'm not sure when exactly I'll be painting, though - "work" work is piling up, I need to clear up two weeks of leave while I'm away, and my research project has exploded in a mass of data. I should have a chance, though, if I can remember how to stop sleeping...
Just had a weird moment of deja vu as this song started playing - it's on the soundtrack for One Perfect Day. The opening few bars made shivers run down my spine...
In case it's relevant to anyone... I'll be out of communication from August 24th 'til probably September 3rd. I fly to Tasmania on the 24th, to stay in accomodation I have yet to find, carrying field gear I have yet to purchase. My last field trip was in the hot, dry terrain of Broken Hill - this time, we're expecting snow in the Tassie highlands. I'm looking forward to the trip, but I have this nagging suspicion that it'll be a little cold... I'll take my camera, and see if I can get some photos while I'm away.
The day I get back to Melbourne, I rush home from the airport and drop off my muddy field gear - and go straight back to the airport again, to fly to Canberra. At least I'll be indoors there... I have one day of labwork (LAM ICP-MS - "Laser Ablation Microprobe, Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy" for those who like long acronymns) where I burn holes in my samples with a laser :-) After that, I have to learn how to do the data regressions that will give me some useable results for my project...
There will be game geekery in another post this week, as I frantically try to finish painting for a tournament this weekend. I'm not sure when exactly I'll be painting, though - "work" work is piling up, I need to clear up two weeks of leave while I'm away, and my research project has exploded in a mass of data. I should have a chance, though, if I can remember how to stop sleeping...
Just had a weird moment of deja vu as this song started playing - it's on the soundtrack for One Perfect Day. The opening few bars made shivers run down my spine...
