All work and no play makes grum a dull boy

Well that title is highly accurate and totally irrelevant; I have become the laziest person in history. Oh I was told it would happen. The first bit of a masters' is generally easy apparently, as we don't have to be done for 2 years. In my case (as indeed it is for many geologists), all I have to do basically this term is read a lot of papers on rocks near my field area, and prepare for a field season. Part 1 is sorta underway, part 2 is 50% complete. By that I mean I've found a field assistant, and all I have to do now is plan the whole summer. Jeez I'm pretty much 99% complete, surely... why the hell am I bothering to even get up today?

And that's kinda the point I've been getting at. Since my last post I have done sweet FA. Slept in till 1 every day, spent my time playing games and watching my downloaded movies and tv shows. I went for a couple of walks because I felt I do need to exercise before all my muscles atrophy and I become unable to open the fridge or even lift a spoon to my lips. Dying that way is, I have decided, the worst possible way to die. Starvation when the food is that close... aaaaargh!

But nevertheless, the slack continues. Give a slacker free reign and nothing to do, and he'll find ways to take slack to a whole new level. This includes spending all day in the dressing gown, not even bothering to cook (and I mean even so much as heating a canned stew), and staying up till 4 or 5 am trying to understand some of the more complicated points of the web (wtf is an NNTP server and how do I find the one provided by my ISP?). Also my room is a horrendous mess. It's full of things like empty toaster boxes and plastic bags, and there are two empty juice cartons sitting beside me. My toaster is full of beer caps. I don't know how they got in there, I haven't had a beer since Monday and I made lots of toast yesterday, at which time there were no beer caps in there. I guess they fell off this desk edge into it. Oh yes and my toaster is indeed in by room on the floor by the desk, because I am lazy and I want to make toast (and butter and eat it) while at the computer. No I can't take two minutes of my otherwise empty day and go to the kitchen to make the toast. My time is important people!!! Sunk has always said how I manage to slack to a ridiculous degree and yet somehow excel, and here there isn't even anything to excel at. Maybe TAing counts.

They say sloth is the mother of invention but I haven't invented anything yet. Maybe I need to give it a bit more time.

Can't today, the reason I'm up 6 hours earlier than usual is that my supervisor is going to teach me how to use an electron microprobe, a device with which I am already quite familiar. Later on we'll be looking at an X-ray Diffractometer, and that will be more useful as I've never even seen one before. These are both devices that cost $25 an hour to use and render the optical microscope obsolete. However, I must still teach the intricacies of its operation to my students.

So after my two learning sessions that last from 9 to 10 and then from 11 to 12 am, I'll be so tired I'll need to come back here and watch more tv shows. Maybe I'll post again. The only reason I haven't been posting is because truly nothing has happened. Some movies gradually came in on Azureus. Oh yeah, and yesterday I changed which port it uses in hopes of getting a faster connection speed, which didn't work. A truly thrilling lifestyle then.

It'll be better when I get to where I'm meant to be... only three months or so to go!

Cheers mates!