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It's one of those Thursdays... where the first meeting of the morning starts at 10:00 and the last meeting of the evening winds down close to midnight. Thus, dear friends, rather than an entry approaching coherence, here are some random snippets about my day (or so). Feel free to ignore this entry -- it really is just Sleepy Nomad RamblingsTM.
Random the First: Due to unavoidable scheduling changes, I ended up sleeping in Ringstead, at the Leveret Warren, on Tuesday night so that I could bring the four youngest leverets to school on Wednesday morning. I confess to being somewhat nervous about this, having never put any children through their morning routine before... let alone four at once! I should not have worried -- it all went swimmingly. Actually, this co-parenting thing is quite fun... though I did get a bit overprotective when another child shoved L2 on the playground.
Random the Second: Upon returning to Oxford yesterday, I made some serious progress on our proposal to obtain Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino and decay electron data for our study on optimising the fiducial volume for the T2K experiment. This is a Good Thing, as this particular proposal has been dragging on for far too long. Hopefully by next week, I will have wrapped it up.
Random the Third: The final Oxford BiFest planning meeting was last night, at the Brewery Gate... with a delicious dinner at Malmaison afterward. Oh, my goodness! Oxford BiFest starts in 203 hours! Panic!!
Ahem. Actually, preparations for Oxford BiFest are actually going quite well. Rationally speaking, there is no need to be concerned. In fact, we have a rather phenomenal team that has been excellent at making things happen! I just think it was inevitable that a state of being mildly terrified would set in right around now... and it has. Hard to believe that things have come so far from my initial suggestion that we organise an Oxford BiFest six months ago. Harder still to believe that, in just over a week, it will be reality! Most awesometacular and spifftastic, indeed!
Random the Fourth: After the Oxford Bi Meetup wrapped up last night, I made my way back to Eynsham with the ever-nifty![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xmakina and the delightfully delicious miss_amaranth. This allowed miss_amaranth and I a bit of date time, which we had both been quite looking forward to. Suffice to say, it was quite lovely!
Random the Fifth: Went to the weekly tower bell ringing practice at St. Giles this evening. Actually, this is not so unusual... but I realise that I have written very little about my bell ringing progress in recent months. This is quite unlike the early days, when every new milestone got a blog entry all its own. In contrast, it has been more of an uneventful slog of late, as I try to master two of the easiest methods (i.e., Grandsire and Plain Bob). Tonight, however, was another milestone worth mentioning: I had my first attempt at a more complex method, known as Stedman Doubles. In Stedman, every bell works; I rang the treble and did well with the work at the back... but got somewhat confused at the front. No matter -- there shall be other attempts!
Random the Sixth: Just finished our T2K-SK meeting a few minutes ago. It's amazing how things are speeding up, now that the data is coming in. We are actually talking about finalising our analysis techniques at the Japan meeting next month... at least for our 2010 results, and maybe for 2011 as well. It is always very exciting to be a part of a big experiment when it is just starting up. Big things are ahead for T2K... and I am quite enjoying the ride! It's a good time to be doing neutrino physics!
On that note, tis time to wind down for the evening, gentle readers! After posting this, I have a phone call to place to the always-incrediblegyades... then it will be time to hop into bed with my beloved cheshcat. The Boy will likely make a cameo appearance there, too... if only to crush our ribs and sit on our heads whilst purring loudly.
Random the First: Due to unavoidable scheduling changes, I ended up sleeping in Ringstead, at the Leveret Warren, on Tuesday night so that I could bring the four youngest leverets to school on Wednesday morning. I confess to being somewhat nervous about this, having never put any children through their morning routine before... let alone four at once! I should not have worried -- it all went swimmingly. Actually, this co-parenting thing is quite fun... though I did get a bit overprotective when another child shoved L2 on the playground.
Random the Second: Upon returning to Oxford yesterday, I made some serious progress on our proposal to obtain Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino and decay electron data for our study on optimising the fiducial volume for the T2K experiment. This is a Good Thing, as this particular proposal has been dragging on for far too long. Hopefully by next week, I will have wrapped it up.
Random the Third: The final Oxford BiFest planning meeting was last night, at the Brewery Gate... with a delicious dinner at Malmaison afterward. Oh, my goodness! Oxford BiFest starts in 203 hours! Panic!!
Ahem. Actually, preparations for Oxford BiFest are actually going quite well. Rationally speaking, there is no need to be concerned. In fact, we have a rather phenomenal team that has been excellent at making things happen! I just think it was inevitable that a state of being mildly terrified would set in right around now... and it has. Hard to believe that things have come so far from my initial suggestion that we organise an Oxford BiFest six months ago. Harder still to believe that, in just over a week, it will be reality! Most awesometacular and spifftastic, indeed!
Random the Fourth: After the Oxford Bi Meetup wrapped up last night, I made my way back to Eynsham with the ever-nifty
xmakina and the delightfully delicious miss_amaranth. This allowed miss_amaranth and I a bit of date time, which we had both been quite looking forward to. Suffice to say, it was quite lovely!Random the Fifth: Went to the weekly tower bell ringing practice at St. Giles this evening. Actually, this is not so unusual... but I realise that I have written very little about my bell ringing progress in recent months. This is quite unlike the early days, when every new milestone got a blog entry all its own. In contrast, it has been more of an uneventful slog of late, as I try to master two of the easiest methods (i.e., Grandsire and Plain Bob). Tonight, however, was another milestone worth mentioning: I had my first attempt at a more complex method, known as Stedman Doubles. In Stedman, every bell works; I rang the treble and did well with the work at the back... but got somewhat confused at the front. No matter -- there shall be other attempts!
Random the Sixth: Just finished our T2K-SK meeting a few minutes ago. It's amazing how things are speeding up, now that the data is coming in. We are actually talking about finalising our analysis techniques at the Japan meeting next month... at least for our 2010 results, and maybe for 2011 as well. It is always very exciting to be a part of a big experiment when it is just starting up. Big things are ahead for T2K... and I am quite enjoying the ride! It's a good time to be doing neutrino physics!
On that note, tis time to wind down for the evening, gentle readers! After posting this, I have a phone call to place to the always-incredible
gyades... then it will be time to hop into bed with my beloved cheshcat. The Boy will likely make a cameo appearance there, too... if only to crush our ribs and sit on our heads whilst purring loudly.