A deadline and a lifeline

Today me and Thomas handed in our article, the final version ready to be check and (although hopefully not) resent for revision. It is an awesome feeling, but I guess we will have it coming back and forth some times before it is ready for print. So for now I can let myself relax with some good movies, a little skotch and my cupcakes.

Also, our roleplay group has had some few meetings already, we have only been gathered once as a whole group, but hopefully it will be more often in the future. Fredrik has asked me to write stories later of our group's adventures, it will be a nice way to keep track of what has happened. And a nice way to spend time when you feel like doing nothing especially urgently necessary. This will be the chance for you to meet my lovely Ernja, a Watersoul Genasi, a elemental race of the forgotten realms.

But now I will continue to relax this lovely evening and make sure not let it go to waste.

Eventually you see that light at the end

Today I'm rejoicing greatly since I can finally see the end of the tunnel; my long, dark, depraving and narrow path of progress. Today I finished not just one thing, one important piece of my life's work, but so much as three. Or well important pieces of my life's work might be overdoing it, but at least three things that have been nagging me for days, weeks and for some even months now. Today I finally handed in my clean and corrected report of my Bachelor project, and oh when I left all those copies into the hands of other people made me feel so proud of myself. It took a bloody darn long time, but it has finally been finished. I hope that it will give people some form of enlightenment and maybe even ignite some flame of interest as they read it. Hard to know for sure, but I am finished at least. I am thinking of putting up a paper so that people interested in having a copy of it may sign up, should've done it earlier. But oh well.
But that was one thing. Secondly I got my poster printed out that will shine its glorious wealth of knowledge on the Kulturnatten this Saturday. It will then be there to enlighten people on the crusade to find the twin planet of Earth, which has not been found yet although it might not be that far away. I am really proud of it, at least the design was really good-looking.
And third, I also handed in the report on our big exercise last week. It was due on Friday but I couldn't find anything wrong with it so I might as well do that. So now, as I sit here at home by my computer, I have only one important thing left to finish for now. And that is the article from the Moletai Summer research school. Me and Thomas have already merged our work on it and will now start with the finishing touches and also comment on each other's work. I have one thing left which I know I haven't written about yet and that is the different types of eclipsing binaries in terms of how close they lie together. Otherwise I'd say we have mostly small things to do left, print in the references and make sure the two works merge together nicely. Then the summar/abstract is left and finally: a nice fancy title of course. I am confident that it should be more or less done by monday actually. And then I am free, until our next large assignment which we get on thursday next week. But it's some time left before that at least.
Now I am gonna prepare myself a meal worthy of a king like me, a master of productivity and efficiency!
Peace out!

..and yes time passes

Now the term has really started, it's hard not to notice it really. I sent an application to a spex-group here in Lund, but their trial days were not fitting my schedule so I guess I'll skip the idea of spex and playing music for now, better concentrate on what's important.
But what's important is that I have, more or less finished my corrections of the Bachelor project (finally I moved my ass and did something useful eh?). There is only a read-through needed to look for some small errors I might have overlooked earlier and then it will be printed out in several copies and sent out to the library and some other friends. It will be a wonderful feeling to have it finished, done and with a cherry on top. Wonderful!
What more is coming up now is the Kulturnatten, where I am making a poster about "The detection of Super-earths". But it has to be in swedish, and I hadn't understood it before but swedish is really a lame language, as an astronomer at least. Every cool processes and names are just...so boring and stupid when it gets translated. Good thing you write articles and such in english at least. The design on the poster is more or less done, I will check the text sometime today and then have Daniel M. go through it as he knows more on the topic than me probably. After that it is a swedish grammar check and then it goes off into print tuesday or wednesday I am hoping. And then that part is done, on the Kulturnatten I have nothing more difficult than standing guard at doors and doing dishes. I am actually a little relieved to not have anything more important to do which needs me to prepare things and such.
And yes, we have the deadline for the proceedings book of Moletai research school. I have read up on the theory behind Eclipsing binaries, which is the work me and Thomas are writing about our results on. These are two stars encircling each other, and when we look at them, they eclipse each other in periods, which means that they move in front of each other and block each other's light. 25th is the deadline, but I think I have more or less done the fundamental part of the theory part I was set to do. Me and Thomas are discussing what we've written sometime tomorrow. I can only hope that we are close to being done so that we have lots of extra time to correct things and insert more so that we have an awesome and perfect article in the end.
Hopefully we will discuss applying for time at NOT after that, and also get the data soon so we can start working on the data. I am gonna check if I can get hold of some access to IDL, the programming language we use in our work, so that I also can analyze the data and not only Thomas.

Last night I was at a party at Lina, an ex-student that recently finished her master, with all the other of my friends and some others from the institution. It was hard not to talk all about work and so, but the night turned out nice anyway. We looked at funny videos on youtube and laughed at lots of things. I really needed that time off there, lately its all been about work work work and studies.
And about work also, I have more or less convinced myself to start as a student-ambassador. This means I get paid to go to different high schools and represent Lunds University there, tell them about how it is to study here and especially as a physics/astronomy student. It will be nice, but first things first. I have to finish everything I have to do this month before anything else. Then I can start look at this.

Well, it's Sunday and I am actually going to the university to get some work done. It sucks, but the results later will be pleasant I hope to have in your hand and be able to say "I did all this".
There's no such thing as rest in a student's life, it's just bullocks!

Another term, another adventure

The new term has started, and it didn't go off with a big bang which I had anticipated. So far it's pretty calm at the uni, but I have other things to do outside of that which takes a lot of time for me. This wednesday we had a BBQ with ALVA to celebrate her names day, and there was actually a couple of people there. It went well, too bad though that the old members from last term didn't come, but I hope really they are coming for next meeting.
Other than that explicit meeting, time is running out for writing the article for the proceedings of the Moletai research school. Me and Thomas, which I work with, got some strange values on one of our objects and it has confused us. But we should get starting on writing the article soon now I hope, it's lucky that it isn't any long article we have to write.
After this article has been submitted, and of course I'm done with my corrections on the bachelor project, we will apply for time at NOT and hope to get some more data which we can submit a new article for later. It will surely be an awesome experience even if we don't get the observation time or the article published. It sure will look great on my CV to have that experience so "early" in my career.
Last night I had a movie night with some friends here, and today it's board games all day. Civilisations is our primary target, we'll see if we have time for something else. I hope we will be playing some more tomorrow as well. It would be a nice start of the term with pizza, friends and boardgames. It doesn't matter how much workload Melvyn put on us, I am sure to float on the clouds anyhow.
It's been a very long time now also since I was home, but strange enough I am not feeling home sick still. Guess I'm having a ball down here now, home I'll have time for later.
Also, I am considering skipping the Boelspexarna this term, that is working as a soundengineer for a group putting up kind of a musical each term. And instead join another spex which I talked to a guy at the BBQ about which seemed to have spots ready for saxophonists. A group to play in, how long I've yearned for that again!
To wrap things up, here's some photos from the ALVA BBQ:
There was a bunch of people there, and I tried to talk to them all. But I think they appreciated it and hopefully they will all return, and stay ALVA for good! :)
People looking at the zenith, they kinda thought it was interesting......don't ask me I wasn't there to see it.
No things are eternal, and that includes the summer heat. Eventually we went inside for some cinnamon and syrup. It was a good night, and lots of new interesting people.