In which I miss the dust and mention some stuff I’ve been doing

November 2nd, 2008 Matt

So, I’ve been home from Burning Man and the USA for over a month now but until now I haven’t gotten around to moving the Gone to Burning Man post from the top of my blog. I suspect this is probably because I’d still like to be at Burning Man.

Anyway, since getting back a few notable events have occurred.

  • My parents have come over to stay for a couple of months :) .
  • I went to Tambellup as part of the John Curtin Weekend of volunteering.
  • We’ve been to Melbourne for a week, where I graduated from my Masters degree.
  • I went to the weekend CampOut with a bunch of people from the Perth fire crew.
  • I have finally made the switch to Mac OS X with a shiny new aluminium MacBook.
  • I’ve started doing an online course to upgrade my radio license to the Advanced level.
  • Watched the Red Bull Air Race yesterday afternoon.

I think those are the events of importance that have occurred in the last month or two. Hopefully I will get back to more regular posting now that I have shifted the Gone to BM image from the top of the blog.

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That’s it, I’m done!

June 14th, 2008 Matt

As of about 20 minutes ago I submitted the last two assignments for my Masters degree in Astronomy. Obviously I won’t officially know that I’ve passed these units for about 3 weeks but I am happy that I have done what is needed to pass and complete the degree.

I’m glad to be finished but a little bit sad that I won’t be doing more next semester.

Yay! All done!

I’m going off for a sleep now.

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Can’t we get started already |-(

March 3rd, 2008 Matt

Today is the beginning of Week 0 of the final semester of my astronomy course. This week we are supposed to introduce ourselves to the other members of the class. Learning proper kicks off next week.

At the moment I’m really quite motivated to get started and a bit frustrated that I have to wait until next week to start. At least I have all the lecture notes now and the essay topics I have to chose from.

I’m probably motivated because once I get these two units (Studies in Space Exploration and Stellar Astrophysics) done I’ll have finished my Masters degree.

I suspect it might also be because this is the main thing I have to get done before I get to go to Burning Man :)

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