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Break, week 1
May. 13th, 2005 04:10 pmI'm being pretty lazy this week. There are two weeks in between spring and summer semesters, and this is the first. Beyond that, I'm only teaching one course this summer (which is the standard summer load), and it doesn't start until week three. So, basically, I've got a month off from teaching.
There's still quite a bit to do, though. I've got to get cracking on my next paper; I've written some fragments, but it's far from complete. Also, one of my Senior Assignment students - the one who's been studying the statistics of baseball - will be presenting on the 24th. (I had two others last week - one presenting the work of the 19th century algebraist and education reformer George Peacock, the other outlining the correspondence between Fermat and Pascal in which they developed the foundations of probability theory. Both performed creditably, if not as well as my student from last semester. In fall semester, it's looking like four presentations, on the history of generating functions, on regular and semi-regular polyhedra, on Hilbert's reformulation of Euclidean geometry, and on p-adic numbers and Hensel's Lemma.)
Nonetheless, I've done very little this week. Some yardwork, a few bills... I finished A Civil Campaign and have started rereading Cherryh's Chanur books. Pride of Chanur went quickly, and I've begun on Chanur's Venture. I've also finished rewatching the first season of "Buffy", and I'm considering a post of capsule reviews of the episodes.
I'm not forgetting the posts I promised a while back. I'm composing (in my head, so far) the first of, probably, two posts on knot theory, and I do want to review the first season of "Veronica Mars" as well. But I'll have to shake the lazies off first...
There's still quite a bit to do, though. I've got to get cracking on my next paper; I've written some fragments, but it's far from complete. Also, one of my Senior Assignment students - the one who's been studying the statistics of baseball - will be presenting on the 24th. (I had two others last week - one presenting the work of the 19th century algebraist and education reformer George Peacock, the other outlining the correspondence between Fermat and Pascal in which they developed the foundations of probability theory. Both performed creditably, if not as well as my student from last semester. In fall semester, it's looking like four presentations, on the history of generating functions, on regular and semi-regular polyhedra, on Hilbert's reformulation of Euclidean geometry, and on p-adic numbers and Hensel's Lemma.)
Nonetheless, I've done very little this week. Some yardwork, a few bills... I finished A Civil Campaign and have started rereading Cherryh's Chanur books. Pride of Chanur went quickly, and I've begun on Chanur's Venture. I've also finished rewatching the first season of "Buffy", and I'm considering a post of capsule reviews of the episodes.
I'm not forgetting the posts I promised a while back. I'm composing (in my head, so far) the first of, probably, two posts on knot theory, and I do want to review the first season of "Veronica Mars" as well. But I'll have to shake the lazies off first...
