ay for five-day weekends! (Tuesday is a university holiday, on top of the usual Easter public holidays). I’ll admit my first instinct was to treat the long weekend as three extra days I could spend in my office coding my data (a long and laborious process – I’ve got tens of thousands of instances of…
Major thesis milestone passed: I finished writing my research proposal this afternoon! A week late, though considering the interruptions of earthquakes (and earthquake anniversaries, which is a busy time for us at work), I think I’m doing pretty well to only be a week behind. For those of you sensible enough to not attempt a…
In theory, I should be at the university writing my research proposal. Up until an hour or so ago, that’s where I was. Except then the ground started shaking (again), in a big and scary enough way that taking shelter under my desk seemed like a good idea (ok, and there may have been a…
And the DD site has been down for days, so I couldn’t post anything. And of course I wasn’t so sensible as to just write my entries up in Notepad and copy and paste them in, so I’m sure I’ll forget some of the really cool and important stuff I was going to tell you…
uarter to seven, and I’m still at work. Don’t worry, I’m not actually working though – I’m not high enough up the food chain to be willing to do unpaid overtime! I was putting the final touches on my presentation on Bislama that we’re giving to the local Vanuatu community on Sunday, then I remembered…
ost people spend Labour Weekend doing fun stuff, or at least relaxing a bit. I spent it working on my assignment, which is due on Friday. But it was worth it, because I finished it! All six thousand and something words (yeah, I may have gone a bit overboard there…) I even got to spend…
ust very very busy. I’ve got a month to go before my final project is due for my LING paper, and it’s absorbing almost every spare moment. I am trying to stick to my rule of at least taking an afternoon off every weekend so I can catch up with friends or do something relaxing,…
irst term of the semester is over, and I handed my first big assignment in yesterday, so I can pause and relax – well, for a couple of days, at least. I’ve got another assignment due in three weeks, so I’ll have to work on that over the break. And of course, I’ll still be…
espite appearances, I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth. I’ve just been kind of busy. Semester started two weeks ago, and it was very much a case of straight in the deep end as far as workload goes. I’m loving the course though – it’s much more hands-on than the last paper I…
ou want to hear my latest excuse for not having posted here for ages? This time it’s not me that’s been sick (or the DearDiary site), but my computer. I discovered a nasty malware infection on it, and as removing it looked like it was going to be a long and involved process (it was…