get to know yourself
There was a blackout in the university campus so I ran away and came to the IVIC again. Today it's been rainy, specially in high parts of this complex reticulate of valleys called Caracas. Its great when I can work in office as the two monitors and the speed of the processors allow me to loop very fast seeing changes. But now it's being too dry. I'm half stuck moving around ideas and paragraph. I also need to write discussions, introductions and stuff like that. Just arriving here calm me down. I sit near the windows to see the valley and the fog going down. I'll write, probably more that if I have stayed at office. I knew that. I guess it's good to get to know yourself, at least a little bit.
About the work, critical week. I have 205 pages, having moved from B5 to A4 page size, so I don't have to reformat so many tables.
I still need to write:
- Acknowledge - easy
- Abstract - hum, almost easy
- Resumen (yes, the abstract in Spanish) - trivial
- Preface - almost easy
- Fix the list of figures and tables
- Background (also known as introduction) - almost easy
- Related Work - not easy
- Conclusions and Future Work - not easy
- Put source-code examples in the appendix. - trivial
I also need to work hard in:
- Wrapping up *the* chapter, extending the discussion
- The extensions and variations chapter, that was once almost clear, and now is a creation of Dr. Frankestein scaring me with his many parts borrowed from anywhere.
I really need to clear up the number of pages, let's say, on Monday or Tuesday as the university in Barcelona will design the cover of the thesis and they need such information.
My brother's birthday is on Sunday, so on Saturday we will see Harry Potter 6th in the cinema, with both wifes, all fans of the books. Rest of the time, just writing.
I just really want to clear things up and don't have any confusion in the following days. I don't have time to letting them mature. This should be more than done, but it isn't yet.
Meanwhile I got some of the travelling funs from the university today. I still need to get more funds from a goverment agency (fonacit) and ask permission to the goverment to send me the money to spain. (Well, I can do it with that permission but I'll get 1/3 of the money. Not really funny).
