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What I did at work today!
Jul. 17th, 2007 05:44 pm1. Fiddled around with graphs and such, waiting for the afternoon meeting.
2. Gave up with graph-related fiddling around and snuck off for fiddle-related fiddling around.
3. Sat down at the piano and nearly missed said meeting.
4. Took notes on my supervisor's one-hour What Not To Do During a Thesis Defence Examination lecture. (Salient points: do not annoy the examiners because they're the ones with the thesis in their hands. Do not fight with the examiners because they will beat you up. Do not try to impress or confuse the examiners because they are smarter than you. If the examiners start warring amongst themselves, go get some popcorn and do not interfere. Do, however, try to make the examiners feel guilty for skimming your thesis instead of studying it, if only because it's funny.)
5. Rambled for an hour about my latest set of graphs and was surprised at the extent of squee over my findings.
6. Was offered a fantastic academic career on a silver platter.
7. Um. Wait. What was that last one?
Yeah. So my supervisor and his post-doctoral student caught up with me after the meeting and offered me employment for the rest of my undergraduate career, my name on a paper that'll in turn be cited by every serious paper on hailfall in the next few decades, their support if I want to try and get a sneaky research job with the government for my internship (as opposed to the usual forecasting gig), and, apparently, a subject and supervisor for my Master's thesis.
I did a very convincing impression of something flabbergasted.
So, yes. Yay work! This is definitely not something I expected to happen this, well, early in my life. Still hasn't quite sunk in yet, that I've made these awesome connections. Veddy intimidating.
In other news, I decided to watch some Seven episodes last night, and got about halfway through "Time and the Rani" before getting fed up with Mel (just... stop screaming? Pretty please?) and the not-particularly-competent writing. So I skipped ahead to "Dragonfire" and enjoyed it much, much more. Ace endeared herself to me right off the bat by dumping a milkshake over the head of an annoying customer. (Figures that the one time I didn't want to do that to a customer, I wound up doing it by accident anyway.) Also, y'know, by blowing things up.
I then listened to "Fearmonger" and was extremely impressed. That was intense. And the plot was so twisty! *happy*
Only downside to today is that the ankle's acting up again, so I cancelled fencing as a precaution. I don't suppose my walking on it for two hours did much to help matters, though. Still, it feels better than it did!
2. Gave up with graph-related fiddling around and snuck off for fiddle-related fiddling around.
3. Sat down at the piano and nearly missed said meeting.
4. Took notes on my supervisor's one-hour What Not To Do During a Thesis Defence Examination lecture. (Salient points: do not annoy the examiners because they're the ones with the thesis in their hands. Do not fight with the examiners because they will beat you up. Do not try to impress or confuse the examiners because they are smarter than you. If the examiners start warring amongst themselves, go get some popcorn and do not interfere. Do, however, try to make the examiners feel guilty for skimming your thesis instead of studying it, if only because it's funny.)
5. Rambled for an hour about my latest set of graphs and was surprised at the extent of squee over my findings.
6. Was offered a fantastic academic career on a silver platter.
7. Um. Wait. What was that last one?
Yeah. So my supervisor and his post-doctoral student caught up with me after the meeting and offered me employment for the rest of my undergraduate career, my name on a paper that'll in turn be cited by every serious paper on hailfall in the next few decades, their support if I want to try and get a sneaky research job with the government for my internship (as opposed to the usual forecasting gig), and, apparently, a subject and supervisor for my Master's thesis.
I did a very convincing impression of something flabbergasted.
So, yes. Yay work! This is definitely not something I expected to happen this, well, early in my life. Still hasn't quite sunk in yet, that I've made these awesome connections. Veddy intimidating.
In other news, I decided to watch some Seven episodes last night, and got about halfway through "Time and the Rani" before getting fed up with Mel (just... stop screaming? Pretty please?) and the not-particularly-competent writing. So I skipped ahead to "Dragonfire" and enjoyed it much, much more. Ace endeared herself to me right off the bat by dumping a milkshake over the head of an annoying customer. (Figures that the one time I didn't want to do that to a customer, I wound up doing it by accident anyway.) Also, y'know, by blowing things up.
I then listened to "Fearmonger" and was extremely impressed. That was intense. And the plot was so twisty! *happy*
Only downside to today is that the ankle's acting up again, so I cancelled fencing as a precaution. I don't suppose my walking on it for two hours did much to help matters, though. Still, it feels better than it did!
