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Hmm, been a while since I updated - haven't really had much to say ;).
Work - been keeping me busy. This year my funding runs out and I will write up before that happens... Most people overrun by up to a year or more. I have a meeting in Japan next week (flying on Sunday), so I'm finishing work on that atm. When I get back, I am keeping 1-2 weeks free to sit down and start writing. The idea is to produce 0th drafts of several chapters so I at least understand where the holes are so I can start plugging them.
Unfortunately, that means getting stressed and working long hours. I missed a long weekend in ?Northumbria? because I had too much work to do which was a real shame... but I was karmically rewarded when I found a rather nice paper on momentum acceptance of solenoidal focusing lattices, which I've used to explain some of the slightly odd behaviour of our cooling channel. (As the advert says, "Karma's a funny thang"). Still, I've been putting in the long days/weekends in the last couple of weeks (sleep-work-sleep-work...) to try to get everything in shape.
So I'm reading a bit of Wodehouse at the moment. I think I shall have to hunt out some more as it's rather good. Embarassing trying to stifle a giggle on the buses in the morning. I should watch out though - after reading Patrick O'Brien (Master and Commander etc), I started dropping the occasional "Foretopgallant" and "Main stay" into everyday conversation. If it's Wodehouse then it'll be "What ho!" and "I say!" which isn't too bad I guess... but I might mix the two, and that'll be trouble.
So as I said, I'm finishing up soon, and that means I need to start hunting for jobs. I quite enjoy the work I'm doing, so I'm pursuing a few different things. I had a sit down with my boss here at Imperial before christmas and he indicated that there would be a place for me if I wanted it. But there are now adverts for positions at Rutherford Lab and Oxford for similar positions. I put an application in for the position at RAL and I should see the guy advertising for the Oxford job in Japan. I know them all reasonably well and I think I'm in with a very strong chance for all of them. Lots of pros and cons to the different jobs...
Umm, what else? Pip's doing well, off up on a winter mountaineering course in Scotland this weekend. It's funny, but there aren't many girls I know that take on such tough things and come out on top. She works in engineering, in a male dominated environment, and is clearly doing really well (probably one of the youngest people in the company at her level of seniority)... she takes on cool, ambitious, daunting hobbies like caving and mountaineering and performs extraordinary feats like discovering some of the deepest caves in Europe, probably the oldest sandstone caves in the world in venezuela, etc... and she still finds time to smile and bake bread and go out cycling on weekends! All in all, she's a pretty amazing girl.
Anyway, hopefully I shall be less antisocial when I get back from Japan!
Work - been keeping me busy. This year my funding runs out and I will write up before that happens... Most people overrun by up to a year or more. I have a meeting in Japan next week (flying on Sunday), so I'm finishing work on that atm. When I get back, I am keeping 1-2 weeks free to sit down and start writing. The idea is to produce 0th drafts of several chapters so I at least understand where the holes are so I can start plugging them.
Unfortunately, that means getting stressed and working long hours. I missed a long weekend in ?Northumbria? because I had too much work to do which was a real shame... but I was karmically rewarded when I found a rather nice paper on momentum acceptance of solenoidal focusing lattices, which I've used to explain some of the slightly odd behaviour of our cooling channel. (As the advert says, "Karma's a funny thang"). Still, I've been putting in the long days/weekends in the last couple of weeks (sleep-work-sleep-work...) to try to get everything in shape.
So I'm reading a bit of Wodehouse at the moment. I think I shall have to hunt out some more as it's rather good. Embarassing trying to stifle a giggle on the buses in the morning. I should watch out though - after reading Patrick O'Brien (Master and Commander etc), I started dropping the occasional "Foretopgallant" and "Main stay" into everyday conversation. If it's Wodehouse then it'll be "What ho!" and "I say!" which isn't too bad I guess... but I might mix the two, and that'll be trouble.
So as I said, I'm finishing up soon, and that means I need to start hunting for jobs. I quite enjoy the work I'm doing, so I'm pursuing a few different things. I had a sit down with my boss here at Imperial before christmas and he indicated that there would be a place for me if I wanted it. But there are now adverts for positions at Rutherford Lab and Oxford for similar positions. I put an application in for the position at RAL and I should see the guy advertising for the Oxford job in Japan. I know them all reasonably well and I think I'm in with a very strong chance for all of them. Lots of pros and cons to the different jobs...
Umm, what else? Pip's doing well, off up on a winter mountaineering course in Scotland this weekend. It's funny, but there aren't many girls I know that take on such tough things and come out on top. She works in engineering, in a male dominated environment, and is clearly doing really well (probably one of the youngest people in the company at her level of seniority)... she takes on cool, ambitious, daunting hobbies like caving and mountaineering and performs extraordinary feats like discovering some of the deepest caves in Europe, probably the oldest sandstone caves in the world in venezuela, etc... and she still finds time to smile and bake bread and go out cycling on weekends! All in all, she's a pretty amazing girl.
Anyway, hopefully I shall be less antisocial when I get back from Japan!