![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
What a day (and it ain't over yet!).
Oct. 23rd, 2009 04:36 pmI'm still functioning on a sleep schedule that is closer to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scrottie's than my usual one, although I am going to go rowing next Monday, so hopefully it will shift back towards early-morning lunacy soon. The only problem with the current situation is that it leads to a compressed work day, which always makes me a little stressed out in the back of my mind because I have that constant workaholic worry that I'm not getting enough work done. (despite the fact that I think I'll be spending Sunday afternoon/evening getting work done).
Anyway. The upside is that my cat loves me--we seemed to have crossed a temperature threshold where she starts to get cold enough that she feels like snuggling, and she loves to snuggle in the morning. So after some quality snuggle-time, and some quality chicken-feeding and breakfast-eating time, I saddled up my mountain bike (which is going to be named Nighthawk, after the bird) and hitched up the trailer to run a few errands. First I went to the hardware store and bought some brackets and a closet pole so the chickens can have a proper roost. [I still need to figure out how to get two 4'x8' sheets of coroplast home from the hardware store so the chickens can have a proper ceiling, but that's a project for tomorrow]. Then I went over to the bike shop to pick up the Jolly Roger. Boy am I glad that I didn't have to remove one of the bottom bracket crank bolts by myself. The mechanic who worked on it said that it took two drill bits and a considerable amount of time.
Then I had to disassemble Nighthawk so it would fit in the bike trailer. Not too complicated, but still a kind of fussy job.
A few minutes after I finally made it in to school on the Jolly Roger, my advisor came swinging through my office, accompanied by a mathematician, and we had a great spur-of-the-moment meeting about some of my data and a pair of simultaneous equations that he and another mathematician have been working on. They are helping me to characterize what's going on with fungus growth and ant colony growth, and the work has been great for helping me get my thoughts organized. From there, I headed over to a presentation/conference overview given by two of my fellow conference organizers, for a big meeting we're putting together for February 2010. They did a whiz-bang job and got a lot of other grad students jazzed about science.
After that, I ordered a new Brooks B-17 Women's bicycle saddle. I hope it's comfortable and worth the price.
And after that, I went over to a graduate student government meeting to convince them to give us (the conference organizers) money for our conference. I got extraordinarily nervous about presenting the information to this group of smart people, but managed to do okay, and they were successfully convinced.
So it seems like it's high time to go home and cook some pumpkin soup and hang out with my friends.
scrottie's than my usual one, although I am going to go rowing next Monday, so hopefully it will shift back towards early-morning lunacy soon. The only problem with the current situation is that it leads to a compressed work day, which always makes me a little stressed out in the back of my mind because I have that constant workaholic worry that I'm not getting enough work done. (despite the fact that I think I'll be spending Sunday afternoon/evening getting work done).Anyway. The upside is that my cat loves me--we seemed to have crossed a temperature threshold where she starts to get cold enough that she feels like snuggling, and she loves to snuggle in the morning. So after some quality snuggle-time, and some quality chicken-feeding and breakfast-eating time, I saddled up my mountain bike (which is going to be named Nighthawk, after the bird) and hitched up the trailer to run a few errands. First I went to the hardware store and bought some brackets and a closet pole so the chickens can have a proper roost. [I still need to figure out how to get two 4'x8' sheets of coroplast home from the hardware store so the chickens can have a proper ceiling, but that's a project for tomorrow]. Then I went over to the bike shop to pick up the Jolly Roger. Boy am I glad that I didn't have to remove one of the bottom bracket crank bolts by myself. The mechanic who worked on it said that it took two drill bits and a considerable amount of time.
Then I had to disassemble Nighthawk so it would fit in the bike trailer. Not too complicated, but still a kind of fussy job.
A few minutes after I finally made it in to school on the Jolly Roger, my advisor came swinging through my office, accompanied by a mathematician, and we had a great spur-of-the-moment meeting about some of my data and a pair of simultaneous equations that he and another mathematician have been working on. They are helping me to characterize what's going on with fungus growth and ant colony growth, and the work has been great for helping me get my thoughts organized. From there, I headed over to a presentation/conference overview given by two of my fellow conference organizers, for a big meeting we're putting together for February 2010. They did a whiz-bang job and got a lot of other grad students jazzed about science.
After that, I ordered a new Brooks B-17 Women's bicycle saddle. I hope it's comfortable and worth the price.
And after that, I went over to a graduate student government meeting to convince them to give us (the conference organizers) money for our conference. I got extraordinarily nervous about presenting the information to this group of smart people, but managed to do okay, and they were successfully convinced.
So it seems like it's high time to go home and cook some pumpkin soup and hang out with my friends.
