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 *sigh*...

Today's rejection letter is brought to you by The Pennsylvania State University (via Belgium, for some reason).

(Official-sounding note: This might be the last blog post for a while, as I have yet to switch away from blogger and they're shutting down external blogs this week. Also, your comments won't appear here after that point. Bear with me, I'll find time to fix it eventually.)

Labels: a pity party for one, astronomy, I would make a cool Jedi, jobs

 Well, crud...

Realised this morning that I uploaded the version of the file with the section on research in astronomy education instead of the version without. Wasn't meant to do that.

I still have another 9 applications to go. Maybe I'll manage to get one of those right.

Labels: a pity party for one, astronomy, Catheirne can't do anything right, jobs

  Hmm...

Well hey, I'm becoming increasingly certain that I'm not going to make the "getting the paper done" task this month, but the word counts are still more or less on track and I'm feeling okay about the paper stuff I have written. I even spent today on that "write something intelligent about the figures" thing, but it feels like it's going slow because like all journal papers it's two columns of tinytext and getting a quarter of a page written is a huge task but not very satisfying from a "watching my pagecount leap forward" perspective.

Today's lesson: \allowdisplaybreaks[1] is your friend. Especially when, like me, you have giant blocks of equations that you'd like lined up wherever possible. This nifty little command allows the blocks of equations to be broken up and split across a page break so that you don't have whitespace all over the place whenever one of those blocks gets bumped to the next page.

Today's nifty link: Eric, by Shaun Tam, a cute little picture book about an exchange student who comes to visit.

Labels: a pity party for one, InaDWriMo, latex ftw (but not the fun sort of latex), thesis ftw

 Thundering Outside...

I hate writing up sections of equations. I'm no good at proofs, and even though the page count goes up as I write it, I know I'll have to rewrite later when I actually know what I want to say and how to say it. I suppose I ought to be glad that I've gotten this section half written up, but I think I'll go back to the paper tomorrow. It feels more productive to be working on the real physics than the maths, even though I know the maths is more important.

I just don't feel like I can see the end anymore. I've only gotten one whole chapter and two half chapters written out of seven, and every time I turn around someone is asking me when I'm going to complete. I don't even have all the results for the main results chapter yet. I want to go home.

Labels: a pity party for one, InaDWriMo, thesis ftl, writing