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Zeno’s grant proposal

Nov

16

2012

I’ve got one last class I have to complete in order to graduate, though at this point it appears I’ll be technically graduating in the spring of 2013 rather than this semester, just because I don’t think I’ll be able to defend until January. But this class will be done at least, and all will ...

What I did with my day.

Oct

13

2012

Today I turned this: Into this: Using these tools: …four times. Six to go. And then they’ll be ready for XRF analysis, which will tell me what mean annual precipitation was in that location nearly 54 million years ago. This is the exciting part of science they never show you in the movies.

Grad school update

Sep

5

2012

This is hopefully my final semester of grad school. It’s a scary prospect. I have to take a class this semester – Paleoclimate – which is thankfully relevant to my thesis. Oh yeah. My thesis. That. You know, the other little thing I have to accomplish this semester. I was freaking out about it yesterday, ...

Read one of my stories!

Sep

2

2011

Last year Anotherealm bought one of my short stories, and now it’s published online and available for reading! Go here! I was a bad girl and worked on doing some queries and such today instead of doing my geochemistry homework. Geochemistry this semester is looking pretty interesting, though. The class is actually focused on marine ...

School’s Out All Summer!!!!

May

3

2011

DONE WITH GRADING DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! So, other than the grading, I had way more fun teaching this semester than I did last semester. Probably because I like sed/strat WAY more than I ever liked mineralogy. Hopefully everyone had a reasonable amount of fun with it. Though the one problem with teaching ...

One Down, One and a Bit Left…

Apr

26

2011

Today was officially my last Petroleum Reservoir Characterization class and the final project is out of my hands, so that’s that. It’s been an interesting class, but between wrestling with Petrel and wanting to stick my head under a pillow and scream every time I have to read about geostatistics, I’m pretty sure I don’t ...

From the Department of Squee

Apr

7

2011

First, huge congratulations to the amazing Stuart Robbins, who kicked butt at his dissertation defense and is now… Dr. Robbins! YAY STUART! In personal squee news, I just found out I won one of the department research awards! So I get money to go toward my BBCP project, which at this point I think will ...

The Bighorn Basin Coring Project

Apr

2

2011

From mid-July to the beginning of August, I’m going to be outdoors, in Wyoming. No, I’m not crazy. Yes, I have a good reason for doing this. Because in the summer, that’s when we’ll be coring through the Willwood Formation in the Bighorn Basin. And this is a big deal. The Willwood Formation is about ...

Emerging From Under My Rock

Dec

19

2010

So, where have I been since Thanksgiving? The easy yet melodramatic answer is: in a black pit of horrible despair. Really, I just mean that I was working on an intensely awful end of semester group project, which I was having to spend over twenty hours a week on. With the other end of semester ...

CRUNCHsquish goes the cockroach. 1

Sep

25

2010

So yeah. That was one of the highlights of my day. And by highlight, I actually mean OH GOD WHY. As I was leaving the geology building to head home after sequence stratigraphy, I decided to hit the bathroom. Except the doorway of the women’s room in the basement was guarded by an enormous cockroach. ...

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