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The Week in Review
Jun. 2nd, 2012 05:37 pmWell, I had ambitious plans for this week, and actually achieved a few of them.
Item: I've arranged an appointment at the groomer for Buster next Tuesday. (Apparently business has been brisk; though I called Tuesday morning, that was the earliest slot they had open.) This will be followed by a similar appointment for Gracie, and dental appointments for both. This will be a tad expensive.
Item: Thursday, I swept up the debris in the basement. I will have to deal with the spiderwebs next. (Some of them are door-sized; I'm thinking about just going down with a big towel and flapping it around everywhere.) Once that's done, I'll look into contractors.
Item: Friday, I woke up with a backache (possibly attributable to Thursday's labors). Still, I had to go onto campus for a committee meeting; while there, I put the finishing touches on the paper I co-wrote with CK and sent it off to Forum Geometricorum. (Title: "The Parallelogram Points of a Quadrilateral". I may talk about it at some point.) The backache seems to be subsiding, but has not done so completely.
Item: Also on Friday, I received a letter from Washington U (the one in St. Louis) informing me that my former student S has earned her doctorate and accepted a teaching position at UM-St. Louis. Glad to hear it; she's one of the sharpest students I've ever had.
Item: I'm currently reading a Library of America volume of short stories by Dashiell Hammett. Most of them concern an unnamed private detective (an employee of a nationwide company) in San Francisco; there's a certain amount of seriality to them, in that loose ends from one story are often resolved in a later one. (Not that the individual stories are incomplete, but one or more of the villains may escape justice for one caper, only to be brought down for another later.) Not a bad collection.
Item: I neglected to make any deposits to or withdrawals from my savings account for a couple of years, and the bank suspended it. They said I could reactivate it by making a deposit or withdrawal; they failed to tell me that I could not do this via ATM. After discovering this last, I filled out a form asking them to reactivate it. I will have to be more careful about this in future.
Item: I was just about to complain about something in my property tax bill, but just realized that a voided check (which I can provide) is not the same as a cashed check (which I cannot, as my bank stopped providing them years ago). Someday I will learn to read....
Item: In the turmoil following the retirement of one of our Stat people, schedules have been rearranged. I was scheduled to teach Calc I and a junior-level course in abstract algebra this fall, but will be teaching Engineering Mathematics in place of the calculus course. I've never taught that course (although its contents are familiar), and I haven't taught the other course in years. Much prep will be required.
Busy busy busy....
Item: I've arranged an appointment at the groomer for Buster next Tuesday. (Apparently business has been brisk; though I called Tuesday morning, that was the earliest slot they had open.) This will be followed by a similar appointment for Gracie, and dental appointments for both. This will be a tad expensive.
Item: Thursday, I swept up the debris in the basement. I will have to deal with the spiderwebs next. (Some of them are door-sized; I'm thinking about just going down with a big towel and flapping it around everywhere.) Once that's done, I'll look into contractors.
Item: Friday, I woke up with a backache (possibly attributable to Thursday's labors). Still, I had to go onto campus for a committee meeting; while there, I put the finishing touches on the paper I co-wrote with CK and sent it off to Forum Geometricorum. (Title: "The Parallelogram Points of a Quadrilateral". I may talk about it at some point.) The backache seems to be subsiding, but has not done so completely.
Item: Also on Friday, I received a letter from Washington U (the one in St. Louis) informing me that my former student S has earned her doctorate and accepted a teaching position at UM-St. Louis. Glad to hear it; she's one of the sharpest students I've ever had.
Item: I'm currently reading a Library of America volume of short stories by Dashiell Hammett. Most of them concern an unnamed private detective (an employee of a nationwide company) in San Francisco; there's a certain amount of seriality to them, in that loose ends from one story are often resolved in a later one. (Not that the individual stories are incomplete, but one or more of the villains may escape justice for one caper, only to be brought down for another later.) Not a bad collection.
Item: I neglected to make any deposits to or withdrawals from my savings account for a couple of years, and the bank suspended it. They said I could reactivate it by making a deposit or withdrawal; they failed to tell me that I could not do this via ATM. After discovering this last, I filled out a form asking them to reactivate it. I will have to be more careful about this in future.
Item: I was just about to complain about something in my property tax bill, but just realized that a voided check (which I can provide) is not the same as a cashed check (which I cannot, as my bank stopped providing them years ago). Someday I will learn to read....
Item: In the turmoil following the retirement of one of our Stat people, schedules have been rearranged. I was scheduled to teach Calc I and a junior-level course in abstract algebra this fall, but will be teaching Engineering Mathematics in place of the calculus course. I've never taught that course (although its contents are familiar), and I haven't taught the other course in years. Much prep will be required.
Busy busy busy....
