Week 129, Day 897.
I am happy to announce that following our visit to the pet weight clinic last week, our floofer has lost a whole 3% of body weight in just three weeks! He is also losing it proportionately, which is a very positive sign! We feel like very proud cat parents. ^^ His next appointment is in a month and we’re super motivated to maintain his diet plan and monitor his progress! 🥗 As for work, last week I attended a refresher workshop on ‘R’. This was actually really helpful as it covered the appropriate application of statistical tools to use on parametric and non-parametric data and how to do these in ‘R’. I will be sharing some of the fundamental lessons I took away from the workshop when I have a free slot to put some of this information together. 📈 I am currently away on a developmental course with my PhD doctorate centre - STREAM. This week we are learning how to prepare a CV and cover letter, be interview ready, write a thesis, know what to expect from the viva, and also write a winning grant application. Safe to say it is a FULL ON week with not a lot of time for anything other than the above. Today was only day 1 and I am already pretty tired, however, I have learned that with workshops and courses like this you have to give it 110% to enjoy and get the most out of it, and that is exactly what I am doing! 💡
I also have a lot of personal project work to try and do amongst the chaos, but for now it’s bed time... For my picture this week, I have included a photo that has been happily sitting on Twitter for about a year, which I was completely unaware of being an anti-social media fiend. Anyhow, I never thought so many people could look so happy at a conference in one photo. We are clearly great company. 💁🏻♀️
Photo: From the TWENTY65 annual conference, 2019. Source: link.