[thesis swamp] c h o c o l a t e

we have officially reached the stage of proceedings in which my Thesis Nest contains chocolate fingers and also chocolate animals. for cocoa-flavoured Sugar that Cronch. the current nominal exchange rate is one biccit per half paragraph of words or paper of data transcription.

(I finished a big chunk of writing yesterday, so that gets to sit and stew while I do some more data wrangling and also try to wrap my head around restructuring a chapter I've just got feedback on and, also, drawing a cartoon. I have... opinions... about scientific illustration and I am really not sure I am up to Creating A Graphic I don't despise, and for bonus points the first step is probably "look back through a bunch of papers I know have this kind of picture in them and try to quantify what I like versus what I hate about each of them", which sounds like prime procrastination material...)