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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Time for a break...
Promised myself I wouldn't work on the paper today, as I'd had enough and could barely stand to read it. So instead I wrote three pages of thesis. Wow, that's just awesome and I should do that more often. I love derivations. They rock. A few more days like that and the first section of this chapter will be done.
Nothing fun to report today, as I'm on dial-up and essentially have no internet. Now to finish off a few presents for the Heidi and then sleep at last...
Labels: Heidi, InaDWriMo, knitting, latex ftw (but not the fun sort of latex), thesis ftw, writing
posted by Catherine, 8:49 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
Monday, November 23, 2009
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
posted by Catherine, 7:02 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
Friday, February 09, 2007
So, at the end of three years...I have:
- 1.5 (draft) chapters of my thesis written;
- no real results to speak of (though I have duplicated the results of others, which I'm told is a good place to start);
- only 1 year left in which to get this bitch done.
Labels: astronomy, freakshow, hating myself, latex ftw (but not the fun sort of latex), never going to graduate, phd, thesis ftl, wasting my life
posted by Catherine, 10:54 PM | permanent link | (1) comments
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