November for 50 points
Nov. 7th, 2007 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zcat_abroadActually, I think it may be worth more.
(A pair of fantails are playing outside my window - they seem to like this rain.)
Exam marking went much smoother than expected: I was finished in two days. However, it will be a while before the marks are back to the students, owing to other people who need to mark it being involved in other exams also.
The weekend was punctuated by fireworks, and a trip to the Lions Book fair, which we almost missed. Going at 9pm on Saturday meant that, for much of our trip across to the other side of the city (40mins), we had great views of family fireworks, and local displays. Yay for ridges running west to east!
Papers and conferences Then there was the re-writing of a paper for the conference in Hobart that we are going to tomorrow. It was going to be a paper which I have now presented twice, though in a very different form. After spending 2 hours with my supervisor, revising it, on Monday, I proceeded to type up the changes yesterday morning. However, my computer has a new trick. Just as I had put together all the changes, and was preparing to write the conclusion, I hit 'ctrl S'. Now, I had meant to be putting in a capital S, but ctrl s should be a save function. Instead, it managed to totally delete the whole paper, so that it was no longer even on the flash-disk. AFter much confusion, and possibly a little swearing, I remembered that my supervisor had an electronic copy of the unedited version, so I had her email it to me, and started again.
Once that was finished, I recieved an email from the conference co-ordinator, saying that grad paper were 10 mins long. So I now have to cut the whole thing in HALF! As it was, I was leaving out lots of juicy things, and was over the word limit. (Described by both my supervisor and my father as 100 words a minute.) Ah well, I'll have lots to say in question time. In fact, I might have one person ask a question, and then I'll just blurt out all the other stuff which I want to say!
On the other hand, the University of Tasmania, hosting the NEER symposium on "Useful Knowledge and Vernacularity: Manuscripts, Readers and Information in Late Medieval England", gain many brownie points. When I emailed, expressing interest long after the CFP had passed, and I had already booked tickets* and was now worried that the whole thing was not going ahead, I got a reply that said not only "we're happy to have you, would you like to give a paper in the grad papers section", but also "do you have funding to come? Can we help?". It turned out they could, so cheers to the University of Tasmania!
*Flying from Auckland to Tasmania costs more, and takes longer, than flying to Phuket would - and I'd soooo love to be heading to Phuket!
Family My brother has returned from the States, for 3 months. This means that his wife and child have come too, and I got to meet my second niece at last. She's about 6 months old, with a great grin that reminds me rather scarily of Bro's grin at about the same age. When I was just 2, and he was learning to crawl, he would pace determinedly towards me, and I would be petrified in terror. Don't ask me why he frightened me so much, I can't remember. I can, however, still recall that feeling of terror. Obviously I got over it, and we're great friends now, but still, why does that poor child have the same smile?
Anyway, she's cute, and we had them round to our place, which they covet, and we'll probably see lots more of them, as Bro is going to study NZ geckoes, and we have lots of gecko friendly bush, apparently.
November
Well, the first thing for November, the exam-marking, went swimmingly. Lets hope the rest of this horrendous month does too. For starters, there's this conference, which means that we have to get up at 4:00am on Thursday, and travel all day to get to Hobart. Four days away means we miss Niece #1's second birthday.
We land back in Auckland sometime after midnight Tuedsday morning, and that evening we have a dinner to go to, for Oxfam. Then, on Friday, examiner's meeting in the morning, followed by driving to Tauranga for a wedding (hoping like crazy that the wedding dress holds up for the day!).
The next week, Wednesday is Sis's birthday, Thurday, Thanksgiving, which we thought we should do something for, owing to Sis-in-Law being from the States, and Friday Sis and family are moving house, and need all the help they can get, because Dad is unavoidably away on buisness, and her in-laws are taking a holiday, or some such, that weekend.
I currently have nothing booked for the last week of November, and would kind of like to keep it that way. I should be doing some study in all this. Can it be December already?
(A pair of fantails are playing outside my window - they seem to like this rain.)
Exam marking went much smoother than expected: I was finished in two days. However, it will be a while before the marks are back to the students, owing to other people who need to mark it being involved in other exams also.
The weekend was punctuated by fireworks, and a trip to the Lions Book fair, which we almost missed. Going at 9pm on Saturday meant that, for much of our trip across to the other side of the city (40mins), we had great views of family fireworks, and local displays. Yay for ridges running west to east!
Papers and conferences Then there was the re-writing of a paper for the conference in Hobart that we are going to tomorrow. It was going to be a paper which I have now presented twice, though in a very different form. After spending 2 hours with my supervisor, revising it, on Monday, I proceeded to type up the changes yesterday morning. However, my computer has a new trick. Just as I had put together all the changes, and was preparing to write the conclusion, I hit 'ctrl S'. Now, I had meant to be putting in a capital S, but ctrl s should be a save function. Instead, it managed to totally delete the whole paper, so that it was no longer even on the flash-disk. AFter much confusion, and possibly a little swearing, I remembered that my supervisor had an electronic copy of the unedited version, so I had her email it to me, and started again.
Once that was finished, I recieved an email from the conference co-ordinator, saying that grad paper were 10 mins long. So I now have to cut the whole thing in HALF! As it was, I was leaving out lots of juicy things, and was over the word limit. (Described by both my supervisor and my father as 100 words a minute.) Ah well, I'll have lots to say in question time. In fact, I might have one person ask a question, and then I'll just blurt out all the other stuff which I want to say!
On the other hand, the University of Tasmania, hosting the NEER symposium on "Useful Knowledge and Vernacularity: Manuscripts, Readers and Information in Late Medieval England", gain many brownie points. When I emailed, expressing interest long after the CFP had passed, and I had already booked tickets* and was now worried that the whole thing was not going ahead, I got a reply that said not only "we're happy to have you, would you like to give a paper in the grad papers section", but also "do you have funding to come? Can we help?". It turned out they could, so cheers to the University of Tasmania!
*Flying from Auckland to Tasmania costs more, and takes longer, than flying to Phuket would - and I'd soooo love to be heading to Phuket!
Family My brother has returned from the States, for 3 months. This means that his wife and child have come too, and I got to meet my second niece at last. She's about 6 months old, with a great grin that reminds me rather scarily of Bro's grin at about the same age. When I was just 2, and he was learning to crawl, he would pace determinedly towards me, and I would be petrified in terror. Don't ask me why he frightened me so much, I can't remember. I can, however, still recall that feeling of terror. Obviously I got over it, and we're great friends now, but still, why does that poor child have the same smile?
Anyway, she's cute, and we had them round to our place, which they covet, and we'll probably see lots more of them, as Bro is going to study NZ geckoes, and we have lots of gecko friendly bush, apparently.
November
Well, the first thing for November, the exam-marking, went swimmingly. Lets hope the rest of this horrendous month does too. For starters, there's this conference, which means that we have to get up at 4:00am on Thursday, and travel all day to get to Hobart. Four days away means we miss Niece #1's second birthday.
We land back in Auckland sometime after midnight Tuedsday morning, and that evening we have a dinner to go to, for Oxfam. Then, on Friday, examiner's meeting in the morning, followed by driving to Tauranga for a wedding (hoping like crazy that the wedding dress holds up for the day!).
The next week, Wednesday is Sis's birthday, Thurday, Thanksgiving, which we thought we should do something for, owing to Sis-in-Law being from the States, and Friday Sis and family are moving house, and need all the help they can get, because Dad is unavoidably away on buisness, and her in-laws are taking a holiday, or some such, that weekend.
I currently have nothing booked for the last week of November, and would kind of like to keep it that way. I should be doing some study in all this. Can it be December already?
