So I should never put things off. Ever. It's an awful habit. It just builds up, and you loath the task more and more until it's almost impossible to catch up. I confess I am guilty of neglecting this website with updates. I don't quite know what it is. I just can never think of a single thing to say, it never seems like I'm doing anything extremely exciting or easily explained. So I will try and catch up the next couple weeks really quickly so they might be shorter. That and, it seems like I was doing the same thing for the past couple weeks. But here goes nothing.
So last week, I saw the light so to speak. I was able to go to a meeting with Renee with a working model. I shouted out in the streets "this is the breaking point! I have overcome the learning curve!" and then I came and began working on another version of it, modifying it time and time again and coming up with new errors. This week's moral is never trust what's going on behind the scenes unless you know what really IS going on behind the scenes. I spent all week looking for an error where the buffer was being over written without my knowledge. But these things happen and you live and you learn eh? Now I've got two working models to compare times on. that's a step up from none I'd say! Time to shine my buttons and look all fancy and smart, like I've actually accomplished something.
So here I'm going to briefly talk about how much having a supportive supervisor like Renee is so awesome. I won't say much because it isn't my intent to embarrass her or me. But she's pretty awesome. The best part of my work week is our meetings. I have the freedom to roam about and experiment all week. And then we our meetings and she reels me in from the deep end where I've mistakenly swam off to and collects all my papers and ideas that happen to be floating around on that end of the pool and somehow manages to set me straight. Give me a new direction to travel for the next week. And sometimes, when I'm feeling completely lost and stupid because I've seemingly exhausted all hope of fixing what I'm looking at, she comes up with new little hints and nudges and I have new ideas. It's great. So Huzzah to that. Fin!