Return to Melbourne, HPC, Psych
Jul. 22nd, 2022 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipFollowing my release from isolation (for the good of the realm), I managed one night out for a Darwin pub meal with Lara's awesome neighbours and was kindly driven to the airport. I managed, as I usually do, to sleep through the flight and arrived at 5.30 am to a balmy 2 degrees, a far cry from Darwin's daily range of 15 to 30, and the spectacular dawns. My plants are alive, at least as much as they were when I left them. But the absence of my dear Sabre cat is both haunting and sad. It is now here, in the environment where I expect to see her, that her presence is most missed: "Nothing to be done".
The week in isolation was, nevertheless, somewhat productive. I was aware that my brain wasn't really in the right place to play around extensively on a production supercomputer, but I was certainly capable of working on getting our coursework up to scratch for the HPC Certification Forum by making sure that all the items on their examinable objectives are actually included. This is one of the main items for my work objectives this year, so getting that done will be a welcome completion of a task.
Apart from that, however, I made excellent progress on my current Psych course, "Changes across the Lifespan" and managed to finish all the readings for that subject; the fact that it is officially week 3 of the 12-week course simply means that I have plenty of time to fine-tune the assignments and prepare for the final exam. On a more practical level, I confess that I am concerned about the state of two of my friends who are showing signs of not being in a good place. It's at the point where I make myself available, to listen, to understand, to help (and it must be in that order). All this study on understanding how minds work has to come with a practical aspect, right?
The week in isolation was, nevertheless, somewhat productive. I was aware that my brain wasn't really in the right place to play around extensively on a production supercomputer, but I was certainly capable of working on getting our coursework up to scratch for the HPC Certification Forum by making sure that all the items on their examinable objectives are actually included. This is one of the main items for my work objectives this year, so getting that done will be a welcome completion of a task.
Apart from that, however, I made excellent progress on my current Psych course, "Changes across the Lifespan" and managed to finish all the readings for that subject; the fact that it is officially week 3 of the 12-week course simply means that I have plenty of time to fine-tune the assignments and prepare for the final exam. On a more practical level, I confess that I am concerned about the state of two of my friends who are showing signs of not being in a good place. It's at the point where I make myself available, to listen, to understand, to help (and it must be in that order). All this study on understanding how minds work has to come with a practical aspect, right?
