Busy Busy Busy

I probably won't be posting again until Tuesday (or, even more likely, Wednesday). Tomorrow morning I leave for Seattle, and won't be back until Tuesday morning. Most of the loose ends have been taken care of. My Calc students will take a quiz tomorrow; I've written the quiz and made enough copies, and a TA has been found to proctor. I've arranged for someone to feed and water the dogs. (I've hired him for this purpose two or three times before, so he knows the drill and the dogs know him.)

I'll be giving a seminar talk today at 1:00. I had thought it was scheduled for Friday of next week, but the professor who schedules these things called me Monday asking if I could do it today. I agreed - I've had the talk mapped out in my head for weeks - but I had to scramble to put together the necessary paraphernalia. (I'm no artist, and it is, after all, a talk on geometry; any diagrams requiring any kind of precision need to be computer-generated, printed, and made into transparencies ahead of time. Also, there are some delicate algebraic computations involved, and I don't want to have to do them from scratch on the board, so I had to make notes with the results of those computations - also computer-generated - as well.) (If the talk had not been rescheduled, I could have postponed the scrambling to next week. What, prepare early? Me?)

Classes tonight; then I come home and pack, and get to bed as early as I can. Next stop, CascadiaCon!