Meh… Sometimes when you’re busy, you just have to let a few things slide, promising yourself that you’ll take care of them later. Sometimes, of course, when you take care of those things later, you realise that you have quite a lot to do. Some days, like today, you seem to spend so long taking care of those things that it takes you a while to get around to doing what you planned to do in the first place.

Does that make sense?
Probably not. Suffice to say that today has been a day of sorting things out.

On a brighter note, I’m at a nice waypoint in my studies, which means it’s time to take stock and make some plans.

Stuff to do:

• Learn DFT calculations
• Learn to use IDL
• Download and install fv
• Investigate Hydrodynamical Instabilities:
  • Rayleigh-Taylor
  • Plateau-Rayleigh
  • Richtmyer-Meshkov
  • vorticity
• Read up about PAH molecules:
  • The Clar Rule
  • Polyhexes
  • Astrobiological Implications
  • Fluorene and its derivatives
• Look into Chemical Reaction Network Theory

(And yes, I do often use Wikipedia as a ‘diving platform’ when I’m reading about new things!)

I also have a couple of miscellaneous links to randomly read about…