Yes, I’m a month late doing the year-end wrap-up things, but I was way too busy in early January so didn’t have time to do them then. And I like doing the annual summaries, so even though they’re late, I’m going to post them anyway. I didn’t do a lot of reading last year (well,…
So many projects on my once-my-thesis-is-finished list, I really didn’t know where to start. But I felt like playing with colour, so I pulled out my not-quite-finished Birds in Flight quilt (Wow, it’s nearly two years since I finished the top, and I still haven’t quilted it! Probably because I got over-ambitious about what I…
No, your eyes are not deceiving you, I’m actually writing a blog post. And that can only mean one thing: I finished my thesis!!!!! I managed to finish the bulk of the writing on Tuesday, then spent the rest of the week proof-reading and checking all the little details, and submitted it yesterday afternoon –…
Actually, I thought I’d finally finished my modelling a few days ago, but I met with my supervisors today, and they’ve recommended I run a few more, so it’s back to sitting waiting for models to run. In the meantime, I’ve started writing up what I’ve done so far, and I’m making ok progress –…
Back working on my models again. I thought I’d be almost finished by now, but last week I discovered I’d missed a couple of crucial steps from the process, so I pretty much had to start from scratch again (not quite, because a lot of the work I’d done before will be useful, but still…
1. Housework done, a casserole simmering away that will provide quick and easy meals when I’m working late this week, the sun is still shining despite the threat of rain, and enough time to sit and eat lunch with a book. 2. The closest I’ll ever get to gardening. One of the supermarket chains was…
I am deep in the throes of data modelling, trying to find a statistical model that adequately describes my data so that I can produce some results to write about in my thesis. In practical terms, what this means is feeding the computer my data plus a long equation that contains all of the factors…
Only three months to go until my thesis submission deadline, so it’s very much nose to the grindstone around here. I’m making exciting progress though – one of my data sets is complete and I’ve almost managed to construct a statistical model to describe it, and the other data set is almost ready (“almost” being…
vidence that spring is here: I came home tonight to a house full of feathers. So many feathers that I was sure Parsnips must have caught a blackbird, or possibly an albatross. But when I followed the trail of feathers in and out of several rooms, and finally found the victim under my desk, it…
I made a start on quilting the eye-spy quilt yesterday. I didn’t get very far, unfortunately, because after about half an hour I suddenly seemed to have lost all my carefully practised skill at controlling the speed. Now, no matter how gently I pressed on the foot pedal, I could only produce either dead stop…