Stumbling Through Adulthood

Start:







Daily Progress



Note: when I first started, I counted 154 photo sets to process... but forgot that I'd done some and didn't subtract them. I noticed that today, so I'm amending my goal from 154 to 146! Heh. Closer than I thought. 26 Nov.



November 1:



Only got two done but I got a whole bunch of prep work done to make things easier in the long term. Plus I found out that I'm missing a photo of my lab book that I need, and that I forgot my scratch notebook in the lab, grr.


November 2:






November 3:






November 4:






November 5:






November 6:






November 7:






November 8:






November 9:






November 10:






November 11:






November 12:






November 13:






November 14:






November 15:






Wow, bit of a gap there. Dh had to fly down to New Mexico as an emergency, so all of a sudden I was single parenting... which isn't too bad, except when I have to be two places at the same time. :) It's been a busy time, and add in Thanksgiving, and some car trouble up here! Anyhow, back to working on this today.

Also, I found out, counting the ones I have left to do, that the total number is 146, not 154 as I'd previously written. I put a note on the top, and amended all my little counters. 14 more to go!


November 26:






November 28:
DONE!!!!!!!!:






Well, I have no idea why all of my counters are broken, but the important info is... I'm done! I've got all the photos processed, all 600 or so of them. Next up, I need to write some Excel Macros to actually calculate the stomatal index.

And oh, hey, this is what I was doing, since I don't think I ever really showed it:



Some of the photos are better, some are worse. Often I'd have several taken at a different focus. Anyhow, the goal was to count all the pavement cells, the ones shaped like puzzle pieces, and all the stomata, the ones shaped like little mouths. If there was any meristemoids, ie immature stomata, count them too (there is one right below the stomata in the upper left! There is at least another, but it's late, I'm not seeing it right this second and I'm too lazy to find the data to see where it actually is). For each construct I made, all 18 of them, I had 10 or so different bits of leaf, and between 5 and 6 photos at different focus points. Anyhow.

I have so much writing to do. But I'm tired. Must too tired.

I need to re-cap the kittens. And the Boston trip (awesome and exhausting), and the car woes, and a few other things like that.

Wednesday is November, and the start of NaNoWriMo.

While I won't commit to writing a novel this year, I AM planning on using the time and the energy of multiple friends writing to get a start on an in-depth outline of my thesis, and hopefully a few seconds started.

And I'm going to try to commit to writing every day for the month. Part of the reason I don't is because the interface here at dreamwidth is so clunky when it comes to sharing photos, can't share from Flickr, can't share a tweet... but I still need to get back to writing.

So there.

That said, right? I need to get to bed. I'm running on too little sleep, too much stress, and the light at the end of the tunnel is train... the first day that doesn't have a major commitment is two days after Thanksgiving.

Ahem. Notice the icon, folks! Hee.

Well, I'll probably be able to finish part one tomorrow, but I wanted to validate my word count today because I don't trust NaNo's site to be up and interactive tomorrow! My official word count was 56997, which was two more than wc -w gave me on my Linux box.

So yay!

It's been fun. I started out feeling very uncertain that I'd be able to make a story out of what I had, but I think I've more or less managed. It isn't great, as stories go, but it's been interesting writing fantasy, trying to make sure the vocabulary and images I use are acceptable in a magic, not technology, based society, and how mysterious the steam punkish society that shares this world seems to them in many ways.

Nothing here today..... I'll add the counter showing that when I get home.

edited to add

Looks like livejournal updates are fucked up. And I just paid them for another year, damnit!

Anyhow, let's try again. What really bugs me is that if the update doesn't work, I lose what I wrote, and I've already lost this twice, so I'll not say that I planned on saying and just add the meter.

49594 / 50000 words. 99% done!

45860 / 50000 words. 92% done!

43076 / 50000 words. 86% done!

40632 / 50000 words. 81% done!

38533 / 50000 words. 77% done!

35714 / 50000 words. 71% done!

30910 / 50000 words. 62% done!

Tomorrow I have to write something painful. Not looking forward to that.