Overall I am pleased with the week past. I focused on the jobs I said I would, that being: 1) two days of outreach, 2) organisation and 3) a punchlist from last round of experiments.
Regarding the outreach, while I had the best of intentions to share an experience that was both exciting/interesting and educational, I see now how difficult of a task this can be. We did get the visiting students through our lab and I think they learned a bit and enjoyed their time, but I've taken from this week a list of notes for future exercises. In particular I would like to look at how I explain basic concepts of my research and what tools I could create to help (animations, computer simulations, slides). However, these things just end up on the wishlist as I don't want to commit serious time to these tasks over the next few months.
In the latter part of the week I re-focused on my research and where I am at. And started back with small jobs, as to dip my toes and carefully wade into the massive ocean of work. I did a number of different types of things, which isn't necessarily the most efficient/productive, but moving among different types of jobs brought back a heap of "muscle memory" which I'll need as I dive in deeper from next week on.
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