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   *Happy Scientific Ninja Dances*...

Okay, so I've been working really hard at getting this code working for my project. I've ignored my blog, and my life to a certain extent, and I've been dreaming in FORTRAN 77. Pathetic, I know.

But yesterday I got it all together. The results were making sense and reproducing those of the guys whose work I am building on. It's a simplification of what I'm hoping to have eventually (in that there are no magnetic fields in my current calculations) and not at all groundbreaking, but it worked.

Today I tweaked the initial conditions a little bit, and was able to reproduce near-exactly the graph the other guys had in their paper. The graph was messy, it didn't have labels on the curves, and the axes were creatively known as "Column 1" and "Column 5", but that didn't matter to me. What mattered was the shape of the curves, and those I had gotten right.

I took it to my meeting with my supervisor and he loved it. He was as excited as me, and I had been doing the happy ninja dance all morning. But more than that, he was proud of me, and stuck my silly little graph up on the door to his office.

That act nearly brought me to tears, it was exactly like being a kid and having mum put a favourite drawing or story up on the door of the fridge to show it off. No one may have gotten that stuff but me and her, but to us it was important and deserved displaying.

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