Plugging along

I'm about halfway through the summer program I'm in at the U. Friday evening I finished and turned in the lit review paper I had to write. Whew! Now all I have to do is analyze my data, write up the paper about my research (including the results of my analysis), and do a presentation on everything. I'm not too worried about the presentation, and I think the full write-up should go fine. I've already written bits and pieces of it for other things, so I just have to combine things and make everything flow.

The analysis part, on the other hand, is being the frustrating bit. I'm supposed to use a particular program to analyze my sound files, and I've worked with it a little bit. However, the manual has proved to be very little help (it says what certain things do, but does not tell you specifically how to do things or where to find specific buttons and commands), and last time I was there, the program froze every time I tried to manipulate something. I was told it was "quirky", but I thought that was referring to it's lack of user-friendliness, not it's inability to function... I'm going in again tomorrow, so maybe I'll figure things out a little better then.

In between all this data analysis, I have a giant stack of print-outs to read about sound and sound analysis, and a bunch of stuff to pack so I can move into my new place. Busy busy busy....