tooth soup

It seems the power of positive thinking is working already. Wait, no, that would imply that I believe that concepts such as ‘The Secret’ are something other than a mass-marketed load of bullcrap. I take that first sentence back. In any case, I’ve been accepted to attend the AINSE/ANSTO school for neutron diffraction. Basically it’s the same thing as the x-ray diffraction course that I’ve recently taken here at Curtin (which was worth its weight in knowledge — Brian O’Connor and Rob Hart certainly know their shit) except with neutrons rather than x-rays. I’m really glad I got in, even did a bit of a dance around the office, to the amusement of the post-docs across the divide. :)

This morning we (finally) had in introduction by our new director of the Nanotechnology Research Institute, Eric Bakker. He’s a pretty yong bloke as far as our faculty go, quite soft spoken but very humourous and obviously very knowledgeable in his area, which is mainly in detection, whether it be potentiometric or kinetic or some other form of determination. Seems like quite a good bloke.

Yesterday after disconnecting my home computer from the internet and, for the first time in months, turning it off, I sat in bed and hammered out an idea that occurred to me while using one of the cardio machines at the gym earlier in the evening. As strange and sad as this may sound, it was nice to be in a different part of the house. I guess that gives a good indication of how drawn I was to the act of sitting down at my computer. I tapped out roughly six-hundred words before my eyes started watering, which I plan to build on tonight after I’ve visited Louise for dinner.

Speaking of which, we’ll be heading off to Sydney for a week starting next Monday, for Nine Inch Nails Part Two*. I’m definitely starting to get excited, more about the change of scenery than anything else, though finally seeing NIN play live will be a dream come true. Apparently they’ve moved the venue to a larger one that can accomodate 5,000 people. Gonna be a fucking big night. :D

That’s all for now, I’d better get back to work, got some calculations running and I also have to prepare myself for the onslaught of questions from my students regarding their somewhat less-than-perfect laboratory marks tomorrow.

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*Some people that read this may remember that Louise bought me airfares and tickets to go see NIN earlier this year, only to have them cancel the concert a few hours before we (Pamela and I) were due to leave her house and catch a taxi in to the venue.

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