so i was just thinking, i don't update that often. I came to the conclusion that this is a good thing, means i have a life. unfortunately i seem to have days where everything happens at once, so i have to decide which event to participate in, and which event to miss. and then there are days where nothing happens, quite a few days, infact. I mean, wouldn't it be nice, if these events would spread themselves out, ie one event per day - no lots of nothing doing days, no missing stuff.
A couple of girls left the department today, one was only here for 3 months (erasmus student), the other, who was lovely, was here for 6 months. i spent £30 (and about 1.5 hours of my time - time is money! - and yes i'm a bit slow) buying them t-shirts and cards (which i fully expect people from the department to chip in on), which was worth it, with the happy fuss they made when they got them. yes, they left, and now its all new people taking their places. it was emotional.
i've sent off an abstract of a poster i'd like to present at a conference in barcelona, literally a day before the deadline. My supervisor, who i now think of as a really nice, cool guy, was really nice about it when I asked him if I could go. I had spent the weekend drafting out a possible abstract i could send off, in preparation to show my super on monday (as he had been away for a few days). when I showed him it, he decided that he didn't want to have those results shown on the poster, but instead of just saying, sorry, you can't go, he cooked up some other abstract that i could send off. in fact i didn't even have to write the abstract, as the abstract was about a more broader topic on a project that is looked after by another person Paul, who was really nice about it and wrote an abstract out for me! He literally wrote it out that Monday, and we went and posted it at 5.30pm that evening. I would have been optimistic about the abstract being accepted, except that Tuesday (30/4/2) is the deadline, i don't know how these guys define their deadlines, as knowing my luck, the abstract probably won't get to them until next week. Also, Paul noticed later that he hadn't filled out one of the sections of the application form properly, he'd accidently missed out one of the authors, and i hadn't noticed it. so, i'm not so optimistic. but whatever happens happens, and whatever happens, i'm pretty certain that i'll be paying Barcelona a visit anyhow.
A couple of girls left the department today, one was only here for 3 months (erasmus student), the other, who was lovely, was here for 6 months. i spent £30 (and about 1.5 hours of my time - time is money! - and yes i'm a bit slow) buying them t-shirts and cards (which i fully expect people from the department to chip in on), which was worth it, with the happy fuss they made when they got them. yes, they left, and now its all new people taking their places. it was emotional.
i've sent off an abstract of a poster i'd like to present at a conference in barcelona, literally a day before the deadline. My supervisor, who i now think of as a really nice, cool guy, was really nice about it when I asked him if I could go. I had spent the weekend drafting out a possible abstract i could send off, in preparation to show my super on monday (as he had been away for a few days). when I showed him it, he decided that he didn't want to have those results shown on the poster, but instead of just saying, sorry, you can't go, he cooked up some other abstract that i could send off. in fact i didn't even have to write the abstract, as the abstract was about a more broader topic on a project that is looked after by another person Paul, who was really nice about it and wrote an abstract out for me! He literally wrote it out that Monday, and we went and posted it at 5.30pm that evening. I would have been optimistic about the abstract being accepted, except that Tuesday (30/4/2) is the deadline, i don't know how these guys define their deadlines, as knowing my luck, the abstract probably won't get to them until next week. Also, Paul noticed later that he hadn't filled out one of the sections of the application form properly, he'd accidently missed out one of the authors, and i hadn't noticed it. so, i'm not so optimistic. but whatever happens happens, and whatever happens, i'm pretty certain that i'll be paying Barcelona a visit anyhow.
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