h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

To further put off the gut-churning agony of having to finish my honors project, I am wasting time on Hootoo.

I think on some kind of level, it's kind of like giving birth- no, it doesn't feel like passing a Ford, but emotionally. I've carried something around with me for a long time- actually, start to finish, it's been about nine months- and now it's time to make it complete. And it's very difficult to do that.

I am in the middle of writing my results section, and I'm trying to figure out how to put the stuff I've done over the past year in words- from the graphs, to the setbacks, to what we've learned about what's going to happen to the river. It's great to see the project finally take shape like a statue being freed from marble, but it's like carving granite with a toothpick.

One section to go. Let's hope I can give my advisor some light reading material on the plane to Germany.

I waste time on Hootoo as well!

Damned Internet with wonderful h2g2 on it.

I am typing my 2 essays after this post.

The count so far:

Draft: 1

Text written, including namby-pamby ones like Acknowledgements and Table of Contents: 12

Figures: 16, likely more

Tables: 10, likely more

Total Pages, including appendix of tables: 38

Total Sections: 5 (out of possibly 7, one of which will just be a bulleted list anyway)

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Frozen dinners consumed since writing commenced: 17

Assignments blown off since writing commenced: 3

Dates blown off since writing commenced: 1

Workout sessions missed since writing commenced: I don't even want to think about that one right now...

Number of red pens the advisor will use up trying to hammer it into something coherent: I don't know the exact answer, but I would bet it's 42.

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Total days until deadline: 30

Wish me luck, folks...

have faith, I'm sure it will be a work of genius

remember to take a nap now and then...

Milla

scan you will be fine im sure.

Hope all goes well. Handing in such things can be just as agonising as writing them, but I'm sure it'll be fine.

David

Good Luck with project, make sure your advisor has to pay excess baggage

When I got in this morning, I found a note in my mailbox saying that he had to leave at 3, so could I have everything I had done in to him by two? And of course, the printer wasn't working right, so there was that to deal with... I'm just lucky that my professor for my noon class got a face full of mildew over the weekend (don't ask- apparently, it was an incident with a tent he had accidentally put away wet), and had laryngitis today.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind

*Tries to picture a proffessor with mildew.*

*Sends prayers and good luck vibes to Scandrea.*

Ah, wasting time on the Internet when various important things demand your time...A crime we are all guilty of...

*tries to picture a professor who -doesn't- have mildew...*

If they don't have mildew, they have dry rot.

Soldier on and bon chance etc...

Two pages into the discussion, initial channel shape prediction graphs made. Hjulstrom is next, after a short blog check. Deadline tomorrow at 2 PM.

Hjulström? That sounds veeerrry Swedish... ? Text book or professor, or what?

Milla

*Pokes head out of pile of papers, binders, and books.*

It's a diagram, actually, that shows at what velocities sediments will erode or be deposited. I think it was a Norwegian that came up with it.

*Dives back in.*

*leaves and for when Scan emerges again*

As a treat Scan, when this is all over I'll send you some of my homemade choc chip cookies