georion23

my planetary geology project turned out well i think. i made an awesome couple of maps. first i took 378 individual themis nighttime infrared images and made a mosaic. then i made a giant compilation map with a mars orbital laser altimeter (mola) shaded relief map for the bottom layer, a mars orbital camera (moc) image to show differences in brightness of the surface on top of that, my themis mosaic next to show surface texture (fine grained material or rock) next, and then i made colored, shaded areas to represent different geologic units i defined on the map. the volcano i was studying is in the middle of the yellow unit in the middle of the map. the compilation map took me forever and i'm really proud of it. of course, i had to be the first to make the oral presentation and i didn't feel as prepared as i should have been, but i hear it went okay and it was right at 10 minutes, like ron wanted, so hopefully it was fine. i guess we'll see when i get my grade.

gave my students their review last night. we ordered pizza and mostly had a good time. one student in particular really bugs me because he doesn't ever have any questions of his own, because that would take effort and he can't have that. instead, he just sits there and listens to everyone else's questions so he can get answers without having to do any work. i'm so glad i won't have to deal with him after this semester. i've had problems with him since last semester in mineralogy.

john said i didn't have to be there this morning since they were just taking their tests so i stayed up late last night writing up all the faculty seminar papers i had been missing and planned on sleeping late. kepler didn't think that was a good plan so he was boinging around my room and pulling things off my dresser and chasing things around all morning so i'm still tired. i've also had a headache for two days. don't know what the deal is. i'm not dehydrated or decaffinated and i've been eating fine so my blood sugar isn't low. argh. abby gave me some tylenol so hopefully it'll go away soon.

i've got a meeting with john and liz (hopefully to discuss our students' final) at 3. then i'm skipping colloquium because i don't really care about "microbes and the biogeochemistry of arsenic" and heading over to petco to get kepler some food. then to target to get myself a new hat. don't know where mine is and it's kinda cold in the mornings and when it's dark when i leave school.

sarah comes back from missouri today. her flight gets in at 5:30 and then i imagine we'll go eat or walk around or see a movie or something. or maybe she'll just be tired and want to go chill at her house by herself. who knows. i'm glad she'll be back. i've missed her.

turns out chris doesn't have my box of christmas decorations so that means it's in austin at my parents' house. damnit. guess i'll have to go buy some ornaments for my poor naked tree. sigh.

yay football is tomorrow. thursday football (sadly) is the best part of my week. i need to remember my sweatshirt since it decided to go ahead and get all cold outside.

( to do this week/weekend )

( to do next week/weekend )

( finals schedule )

okay, going to read a paper for geology of mars before my meeting with john.

recap: planetary geology project turned out well, i have a headache, sarah comes back today, football tomorrow yay, lots and lots to do, almost done with school, time for work. weee...