angst

This whole nearing-the-end process has a fractal nature. Just when I think I have a grasp on the big picture and feel almost confident about completion and quality, I look a little closer, and whole new coastlines of exploration present themselves.

I have no idea where September went. Or summer. Or the last year.

Have taken to old-fashioned method of one post-it note per day of tasks and leaving them around my monitor as a reminder of achievements/lack thereofs. I had a super iCal timetable all worked out but between moving and a few other distractions I have fallen out of my schedule. Now it’s become one of those things-to-avoid: the stress of looking at it doesn’t seem worth the potential benefits.

It’s pretty sad when a trip to the bank becomes your ‘treat’ for the day.

lucy’s baby

In a rare fit of openaccessmindedness, Nature have left the content about Baby Lucy, the latest hominid (hominin? am bad anthropologist and never keep up with this renaming thing) find from Ethiopia. She’s dated at 3.3 million years, and is a 3 year old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, mostly skull but with a rare amount of other skeletal material.

What I always love about the reporting of hominin finds–and other major palaeo discoveries–is that you’d think the bones had been pulled out of the ground just a couple of days ago, when in reality the team involved have been studying them for five years.