Oct. 17th, 2012

Hump Day

Oct. 17th, 2012 05:50 pm
stoutfellow: Joker (Joker)
Normally, this semester, I haven't been going in on Wednesdays, but there were enough things that needed doing that I made an exception for today. I had to write a quiz for tomorrow's Engineering Math class, and the copy service asks for twenty-four hours lead time for all but the smallest jobs. (There are 45 students in the class, so the job isn't small.) On top of that, I had to grade the second midterm in that class. This one required the students to do a lot of matrix calculations, and after a couple of hours of staring at tiny little numbers my eyes suddenly defocused. At that point, I decided to call it a day; I'll finish the grading tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I finally got the typesetting problem with my MMJ paper straightened out. The typesetter and I had gotten to a first-name basis before we were done.... One of the other papers I had out - the collaboration with T, W, and L - was, alas, rejected. Actually, this was a second rejection; after the first, we rewrote it and submitted it elsewhere. T wants to give it one more rewrite and submission. W has already made a first pass at the rewrite, and I'm supposed to take a whack at it on Friday. The third paper is still up in the air. If I haven't heard anything by the beginning of December, I think I'll give the editor a noodge.

I also got in a little work on the Mathematica routines I'm devising - just a little polishing and streamlining, but it's in nice shape now. One more tweak, and I'll be ready to start experimenting.

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