Bit of joy, bit of bleh.
Apr. 23rd, 2006 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castaliaLit review is done, whee! Just under 9,000 words which is certainly acceptable. I keep poking at it, but it's more or less finished.
The plankton flux report, on the other hand, is not. It is evil and incomprehensible and I hate it more than words can say. What a pointless assignment. If I wanted to be a physical oceanographer I would've done the freakin' Applied and Physical Oceanography master's, for crying out loud. I'm a behaviorist, so I really don't give a shit about water transport, plankton flux, or bloody prismatic approximations.
There is also much worry and sadness, b/c one of the cuttlefish in Tank D doesn't look good at all. They must have been fighting in that tank, b/c it has some nasty abrasions on the mantle and a lot of skin damage. It looked very listless and ill today, so I'm worried we may lose it, poor thing.
*heavy sigh*
I need tea.
GIP, b/c I've been watching a lot of The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne lately. And it's a damn amusing quote.
ETA: Report is done, though it is probably shite. At any rate, it is very short. I don't feel like I've understood the subject matter anyway, but there's nothing I can do about it. The lit review was more important and worth 4 times as much. I keep worrying I've forgotten something in the review, but at this stage I can't feasibly add too much more in there. But my word count is good, I think the structure works, pretty sure I caught all the little mistakes, and my reference list is suitably extensive. Only managed one massive table, which is good for summarizing, but I still wish I could've found some good pictures to include, just to break up the text. Argh, too much fretting.
The plankton flux report, on the other hand, is not. It is evil and incomprehensible and I hate it more than words can say. What a pointless assignment. If I wanted to be a physical oceanographer I would've done the freakin' Applied and Physical Oceanography master's, for crying out loud. I'm a behaviorist, so I really don't give a shit about water transport, plankton flux, or bloody prismatic approximations.
There is also much worry and sadness, b/c one of the cuttlefish in Tank D doesn't look good at all. They must have been fighting in that tank, b/c it has some nasty abrasions on the mantle and a lot of skin damage. It looked very listless and ill today, so I'm worried we may lose it, poor thing.
*heavy sigh*
I need tea.
GIP, b/c I've been watching a lot of The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne lately. And it's a damn amusing quote.
ETA: Report is done, though it is probably shite. At any rate, it is very short. I don't feel like I've understood the subject matter anyway, but there's nothing I can do about it. The lit review was more important and worth 4 times as much. I keep worrying I've forgotten something in the review, but at this stage I can't feasibly add too much more in there. But my word count is good, I think the structure works, pretty sure I caught all the little mistakes, and my reference list is suitably extensive. Only managed one massive table, which is good for summarizing, but I still wish I could've found some good pictures to include, just to break up the text. Argh, too much fretting.