Well, today I skimmed a paper that may shoot one of my research ideas to dust. Need to go over it in more detail tomorrow, but I think I’m going to have to be veeeery convincing if I’m to get anything novel of my own after reading it. I know I can publish from different perspectives (e.g. UI vs. underlying algorithm), but it’s still probably going to be a tough sell, so I might have to move on to another idea.

I also did some English checking of a friend’s paper abstract in exchange for white hot chocolate and general goodwill brownie points. I only realised later on the train ride home that it was probably made with cream and milk and not much else and that was probably why my guts felt like I had swallowed a bag of thumb-tacks.

Seriously? I can have cheese and ice cream just fine now, you’d think my body would have learned to deal with the less processed variety of dairy. >_<

NaNoWriMo for the day was a miserable 1657 words. Not only did I not make my 2000 word target, I didn’t even make the 1667 average-per-day-if-you-want-to-finish target. Close, I guess. Will try and do better tomorrow, although it’s looking like a busy day so I’m not hopeful. Might have to do a big push on the weekend.