Moving to new places

Well I haven't made a lot of progress toward my PhD but I have moved to my new work environment at Clayton. All things considered, everything went quite well. I like it here, there is a wall made completely of glass so I can see outside. The quality of the light in here is great. At the moment I am in a work room with 2 other guys, but I don't seem to be as easily distracted by their presence as I worried I might.

Last week my memory stick went belly up and I had a few bad moments wondering what data i had lost. I spent all day moving the data that wasn't corrupt and then re-formatted the memory stick that night. All seems to be fine now and I lost nothing at all as I am so paranoid about backing stuff up.

I have been doing a fair bit of surfing on the kayak lately, around Somers, near the yacht club and its been a very relaxing way to spend the day, especially as the week days are so full on at the moment. Sandy started at Swinnie and that has made an amazing difference to my day. The only day I had where I wasn't working at something every waking moment was on Saturday, but I guess that's OK - better than being bored. Then there's Tai Kwondo classes and gym and libraries and shopping and housework and cooking. Just driving Nina around is exhausting and I've been giving Chris driving lessons for an hour every night- its all a bit mad.

One supervisor is in Italy at the moment and so when I finish the draft article I will send it to the other. He is always much slower but he does return work in a week or so and he has an interesting way of looking at things. I am hoping to finish drafting my confirmation of PhD document this week and send that to him for comment too.

I have an all day training session later this week on research involving humans. It's off campus, which will be lovely. Wednesday Saara is coming over for her birthday dinner, I MUST remember to get her card today. Johann, Denise and I are catching up on Thursday night too, which will be fun.

Coffee time....  ¶ 11:04 am