The Week in Review
Feb. 16th, 2013 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowThis was a longish week.
On Sunday, I made a big batch of spaghetti all'amatriciana. (Tomato/bacon sauce; I've made it a couple of times before.) Then, of course, I couldn't eat any of it on (Ash) Wednesday, nor on the following Friday. On top of that, on Tuesday I packed a Tupperware serving of it to take to work - and left it on the kitchen counter. (I ate that batch as soon as I got home that day, around 8:30, 9 o'clock.)
I wrote and gave midterms in all three of my classes. I suspect that some of my Abstract Algebra students are rather upset - with me, with themselves, who knows? In Linear Algebra, we're moving into more abstract stuff - general vector spaces, instead of just Rn - and I gave what I think was a pretty good lead-in on Thursday. We'll see how they feel about it on Tuesday.
Still banging away at the new library database. I've run into and handled a few bugs, and it's in good enough shape that I've begun entering data; I haven't done the classification forms yet, though.
Weather's been up and down, mostly down, but we're supposed to move back into the 40s and 50s F starting tomorrow. Fine by me....
Most of my reading, so far this year, has been rereads - first the Dresden Files marathon, then other stuff. I'm rereading Glory Road now, and wondering why it appealed to me so, way back when.... I need to make an Amazon run sometime soon, for some new light reading. (My current bus books are volume two of Newman's World of Mathematics, and Stephenson's Reamde, which is entertaining so far but not exactly light reading.)
Monday Math should return on, well, Monday. I see a direction for the next half-dozen or so posts.
Gah. No mind for anything coherent just now. Let me get some rest....
On Sunday, I made a big batch of spaghetti all'amatriciana. (Tomato/bacon sauce; I've made it a couple of times before.) Then, of course, I couldn't eat any of it on (Ash) Wednesday, nor on the following Friday. On top of that, on Tuesday I packed a Tupperware serving of it to take to work - and left it on the kitchen counter. (I ate that batch as soon as I got home that day, around 8:30, 9 o'clock.)
I wrote and gave midterms in all three of my classes. I suspect that some of my Abstract Algebra students are rather upset - with me, with themselves, who knows? In Linear Algebra, we're moving into more abstract stuff - general vector spaces, instead of just Rn - and I gave what I think was a pretty good lead-in on Thursday. We'll see how they feel about it on Tuesday.
Still banging away at the new library database. I've run into and handled a few bugs, and it's in good enough shape that I've begun entering data; I haven't done the classification forms yet, though.
Weather's been up and down, mostly down, but we're supposed to move back into the 40s and 50s F starting tomorrow. Fine by me....
Most of my reading, so far this year, has been rereads - first the Dresden Files marathon, then other stuff. I'm rereading Glory Road now, and wondering why it appealed to me so, way back when.... I need to make an Amazon run sometime soon, for some new light reading. (My current bus books are volume two of Newman's World of Mathematics, and Stephenson's Reamde, which is entertaining so far but not exactly light reading.)
Monday Math should return on, well, Monday. I see a direction for the next half-dozen or so posts.
Gah. No mind for anything coherent just now. Let me get some rest....
