Easter and stuff
Mar. 23rd, 2008 09:56 pmHaven't posted in a while. I survived LPSC the week before last; actually both talks went quite well. After my talk Thursday, the Santa Cruz people took off for the rest of the afternoon and we went into Galveston. I'm not really sure why, Charlie wanted to. I have to say, if Galveston is what happens when Ron Paul's in charge of a district, I don't want him for president. Probably unfair to blame him for that; I think the town never really recovered from the 1900 hurricane. We attempted to play drunken poker later that evening, but there was too much of the former to do much of the latter. Thus, Friday was a total loss for me. I must remember that when I can no longer remember how many I've had, it's been TOO many.
Last week was a mad rush to grade homeworks and projects for my class, make, proctor, and grade the final exam, and finally get around to reviewing several papers. They're now nagging me since I'm late with the reviews. Also GRL accepted my paper (yay), and they were nagging me for the files.
I took the weekend off. Since teaching the class, I haven't been able to do that. I usually spend a few hours Saturday grading, and Sunday prepping for Monday's lecture. I did almost nothing productive this weekend. I got to finally start Super Mario Galaxy. I'm sure I'll pay for this later. Easter dinner was supposed to be roast leg of lamb with artichokes and potatoes. But a whole leg was something like $40, which is more than I wanted to spend on a hunk o' meat for just the two of us. Although it would generate a lot of leftovers. Anyway, I elected to go with the ham instead. I know, I'm a Jew, but pigs are delicious. There are plenty of leftovers anyway, but ham keeps better.
I'm off to Technicon next weekend. From what I can tell lurking on the staff list, this is looking to be disasterrific. It appears to be the most poorly run Technicon in my memory, though I say it as shouldn't. I wasn't exactly a stellar chair for Tcon 18. I suppose I can't complain but so much, since I'm not actively involved with staffing this one. We're taking the red-eye flight into Dulles on Thursday night, crashing at my parents house in the morning and driving to Blacksburg in the afternoon. We plan to be there for opening ceremonies.
What else? Oh yes, two weeks after Tcon, I'm off to EGU in Vienna. Assuming I don't have to report for Jury duty. I requested a postponement until after that conference, but we'll have to see. Then in May I may be going to visit APL, my folks will be coming for a visit, and there's Fanime con. In June there's a workshop in Santa Barbara and the baby's supposed to show up in July. Santa Barbara's only 4 hours away by car, so I can get home relatively easily if anything should happen early. The fun never ends!
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some anime to catch up on.
Last week was a mad rush to grade homeworks and projects for my class, make, proctor, and grade the final exam, and finally get around to reviewing several papers. They're now nagging me since I'm late with the reviews. Also GRL accepted my paper (yay), and they were nagging me for the files.
I took the weekend off. Since teaching the class, I haven't been able to do that. I usually spend a few hours Saturday grading, and Sunday prepping for Monday's lecture. I did almost nothing productive this weekend. I got to finally start Super Mario Galaxy. I'm sure I'll pay for this later. Easter dinner was supposed to be roast leg of lamb with artichokes and potatoes. But a whole leg was something like $40, which is more than I wanted to spend on a hunk o' meat for just the two of us. Although it would generate a lot of leftovers. Anyway, I elected to go with the ham instead. I know, I'm a Jew, but pigs are delicious. There are plenty of leftovers anyway, but ham keeps better.
I'm off to Technicon next weekend. From what I can tell lurking on the staff list, this is looking to be disasterrific. It appears to be the most poorly run Technicon in my memory, though I say it as shouldn't. I wasn't exactly a stellar chair for Tcon 18. I suppose I can't complain but so much, since I'm not actively involved with staffing this one. We're taking the red-eye flight into Dulles on Thursday night, crashing at my parents house in the morning and driving to Blacksburg in the afternoon. We plan to be there for opening ceremonies.
What else? Oh yes, two weeks after Tcon, I'm off to EGU in Vienna. Assuming I don't have to report for Jury duty. I requested a postponement until after that conference, but we'll have to see. Then in May I may be going to visit APL, my folks will be coming for a visit, and there's Fanime con. In June there's a workshop in Santa Barbara and the baby's supposed to show up in July. Santa Barbara's only 4 hours away by car, so I can get home relatively easily if anything should happen early. The fun never ends!
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some anime to catch up on.