Just Another Day

Yesterday I had to have a day at home at short notice to work on some posters for a conference. I feel that this should have been pretty easy: all that needed to happen was for some A0 posters made in portrait to be converted to landscape, have some typos fixed and the corporate logos updated. Sadly, the fact that The Uni stipulates that all posters for external meetings be made on official templates that conform to The Corporate Identity and that all of these templates are PowerPoint means that most of the day was taken up with PowerPoint crashing every 10 mins as it doesn't have the memory to deal with moving around great slabs of graphics. You know, the kind of graphics you need if you are presenting complex scientific data...

Today I need to go back to London to feed my cells and to try to work out what the hell I should be doing this week. Time is very short before I have to start writing up and I still don't have the vaguest beginnings of a thesis. My Supervisor, as usual, is AWOL and I really could do with some supervision. To cap it all, I really have no motivation.

And the sun is out. And Traumatic needs to sort out his blacksmithing.

Life is too short for this stuff.

Just Another Day

Yesterday I had to have a day at home at short notice to work on some posters for a conference. I feel that this should have been pretty easy: all that needed to happen was for some A0 posters made in portrait to be converted to landscape, have some typos fixed and the corporate logos updated. Sadly, the fact that The Uni stipulates that all posters for external meetings be made on official templates that conform to The Corporate Identity and that all of these templates are PowerPoint means that most of the day was taken up with PowerPoint crashing every 10 mins as it doesn't have the memory to deal with moving around great slabs of graphics. You know, the kind of graphics you need if you are presenting complex scientific data...

Today I need to go back to London to feed my cells and to try to work out what the hell I should be doing this week. Time is very short before I have to start writing up and I still don't have the vaguest beginnings of a thesis. My Supervisor, as usual, is AWOL and I really could do with some supervision. To cap it all, I really have no motivation.

And the sun is out. And Traumatic needs to sort out his blacksmithing.

Life is too short for this stuff.