23 May 2011

Moods been good the last week, and feeling more positive! Was at work on Thursday and Friday to help out, did take the opportunity to wander in a bit later and leave a bit earlier. I love 5 hour work days. You can get heaps done, but don't have to motivate yourself to get going when facing those 8 long hours stretching in front of you. Instead it's more like, only 5 hours available - have to get stuff DONE!

James was going to disappear off to Thailand again on Saturday, but the trip got moved (Yipee!). So we had a fairly calm weekend on the whole. In fact, we managed to not do any washing. So instead of starting the week with a clean slate, we'll have to put a bit of work in this evening.

Did finally get my Skype and webcam set up and sorted, so I can hopefully soon communicate a bit more regularly with far off friends and family.

Masters
Not much progress on masters, mainly because I switched to trying to get stuff done for this conference that's looming. Talked stuff over with James and checked stuff with my supervisor this morning, and I'm fairly confident that I'll be able to produce a decent presentation before the end of the week.

My supervisor also offered me the chance to discuss potential chapters, and possible due dates this Friday which I eagerly accepted. Much of my writing issues stem from not having a clear aim in view. I simply find it easier to write when I've got a structure set, and a bit of due date pressure won't go amiss either.

My boss reminded me today that I had said last year the masters would be finished by the end of July. While pointing out that when I said that I didn't know that I was going to be moving house, my brain did none the less muse on the possibilities of having the majority finished by then. Technically, it is possible to have it written by then - just without all the references and nitty gritty. My sensible side tells me not to reach for the stars when I haven't been able to get to the moon, but my ego is prodding. Will have to think on it.

Project Hot Stuff
Weight's been fairly constant.

Got the links to the websites that Ania told me about. It's called Couch to 5K and it's a running program that aims to build you up from scratch to running 5 km over the course of 9 weeks. In addition, there's a guy who made pod casts for it which contain music and tell you when to run and when to walk. Sounds like a good use for my iPod Nano.

Wargaming
Glued my drop pod together although it still needs a bit of painting. Glued on the arms of my dreadnought. Did the shoulder pads of 6 blood claws. Fished out 5 Black Templar assault marines and converted them to Space Wolves! The paint job isn't as neat as I'd like since I didn't bother stripping them first, but they look pretty good. They're suppose to be a really wild bunch so I had fun jazzing them up.

Cats
Both cats are looking fine, fluffy and cute in their winter coats. Zorn has taken to perching on us as often as possible in impossibly cute poses, so I'm assuming she's feeling the chill. The other evening Zwerch decided to entertain us by running through his entire repertoire of "dead cat" poses while snoozing on the floor. It's simply impossible to take a splayed out cat seriously.