1 month to anniversary

Well, I'm not sure what to post today. I meant to be in the field this week, but between some rainy weather, unfavorable tides, and that colloquium thing that I had to do on Monday, I ended up not. I have spent most of the week in the lab so far. Tomorrow they have a meeting there in the morning, so I won't be able to do any work then. I'll have to finish up the experiment that I'm working on in the afternoon.

I'm not sure how I feel about Christmas this year. For me, it has always been a holiday about family. Even with the strong religious meaning that I also feel for the day, I think that the most essential part of celebrating Christmas is getting together with people whom you love. This year, I'll be so far away from everyone except Crystal that I don't know how I will feel when the actual holiday comes.

It's also one month until my 1st Wedding anniversary. That's another funny thing. I still have trouble believing that Crystal and I have been married for nearly a year. The time has gone by really fast. I have to remind myself of what I've done during the year to keep myself from feeling like I haven't accomplished anything. I've been to two conferences, made running up in the Faculty poster competition, started detailed work in a new study area, and done a good bit of geomechanical testing as well. I might have been able to do more, but looking back, I think that I worked hard enough. Next year, I'm planning to get more accomplished. For one thing, I'll have several more months to work on things. For another, I have a better idea of where to go in the future.

Crystal stayed late at work last night, and plans to stay late again tonight. I'm glad that she is really applying herself to her job, but sometimes I think she might be working too hard. I also feel that without funding, I'm really not towing my weight in the financial end of things. If I could get the funding that I've applied for, Crystal and I won't have to worry much about our finances for the duration of our stay. I'll work hard on the applications as soon as I hear back from the first round of application.

Business Cards

Well, I think I may be finally getting some business cards to hand out at conferences and such. I'll let everyone know once I find out more.

My annual report is coming up due. I've filled out my part. Colin has been working on his, so we should get together this afternoon to sign everything and then send it off. Everything looks alright. I've got a lot of work to do over summer this year, but I should have a lot of my thesis done coming into Winter. The planned completion date is mid-2009. After that, I will still have the oral examination and I may stick around for graduation. But, I think I'll be home for good in 2010.

Friday, blessed Friday

I have finally made it to Friday again. I've just finished up a set of Atterberg Limits at the lab. Crystal and I have continued watching Aeon Flux. It just keeps being weirder in a lot of ways.

The weekend is supposed to have very nice weather. Maybe Crystal and I will go do some more walking in the park or something. We had a very good time a couple weekends ago when we went around town towards Parnell.

I've gotten a presentation together for the Geotech Colloquium at the university. I just need to run things past my supervisors before the date of the presentation. I'll be sending a draft along to my supervisor in the Engineering Faculty.

Not a whole lot to report on today. The ring shear test finished yesterday. I've got some plans to do other work. Right now, I rewriting some of my older work. I'm having to change it around because we've changed the focus of the work as a whole. Really, that change in focus happened awhile ago but I just haven't gotten around to revising things before.

Crystal and I watched two episodes of Aeon Flux last night, and it really is just as weird as I remember.

I think I'm close to finishing Phatom Hourglass now. Only about two temples left as far as I can tell. I have plenty more things to find though.

Another day at the lab. and I've almost finished the ring shear that I've had going. Sorting through the data I've looked at for the last year has shown some interesting possibilities of trends. I've got a lot more work to get real trends, but there is some promising stuff.

Crystal has started drawing again, which I think is a really good thing. She's had me buy her a drawing journal too.

For some reason, my eye is continually watering today. I don't have any other allergy type symptoms though.

Not much else to report on. I've been playing a lot of Phantom Hourglass. It's a really fun game and I definitely recommend it to others.