Subtitle: it would've been a long wait!
I was waiting for some friends to come up. Turns ou that the email said, "I'm not coming today." Ah, of course... If I think you should be here at 5 and it's 9, I should re-read the email earlier. Then again, it was too hot to do anything anyway.
But, it was just one more thing that I spent the day waiting for.
On the bright side, waiting til 9 to get motivated to eat gave me exactly as much incentive as I needed to ride around in the AC-ed car, to go to the AC-ed store to buy guilty-pleasure food. mmmmm |
I've got part of one. I'm asking the reviewers to tell me who else might make for a good person.
It's exciting to submit.
I'm still very much negotiating how to work with graduate students. I'm not at all sure how to figure out the right amount of support to offer and the right amount of challenge.
It's even worse with my undergrads that I've adopted for the summer (partially because I haven't had them in a class before). |
I'm not really a fan. I didn't like it when we lived below the mason-dixon and it was persistent. I really didn't like the humidity that came with it. I didn't really like it when we lived in the midwest...
Why does it come to visit me where I live now? Doesn't it know that it's not welcome?
Thursday seems like it's going to be a 'keep an eye on your pets and old-people' day.
Also this week: I need to do more reading and responding to students! And, I'll be applying for $650,000 (rounded). I won't get it. |
It's not really clear. Last weekend we traveled and hung out with friends at a lake. I slept on the beach. I don't think I did any work for 3 days, it was crazy-talk!
The weekend before was a holiday weekend, but I'm pretty sure that I did some work over the weekend. We also had a barbecue in the Boston area with different friends after moving some people earlier in the week.
This weekend: moved a people, then, well, yes, food and friends! But, I'm sitting on the couch drinking and working on a proposal (deadline 9 days). It's mostly small things, but still. July 16, working. Writing to grad students about some data analysis, plans for data collection, and trying to read a dissertation proposal (how many times does one read a proposal before it's too many?).
I'm pretty sure that I work 2/4 weekends over the summer and 4/5 during the school year. I'm not really complaining, I like what I do and it's good to think about things, and the more time spent thinking the better the final product usually it. Although, I'll also admit that there comes a time when I'm no longer able to really say, "yep, good stuff" because I've grown way too close to it. We're approaching that with the grant, although I've done a nice job about spreading out the work and still have a sense of distance and, more importantly, don't want to not see it for a year.
I kind of feel bad for working on a weekend, but I think it's partially because I'm supposed to not work on a weekend. Partially because I do want to be a model for my students about the kind of person who has a balanced life, but they don't see the time I take each day for me and us (not them, kismet!) and finding ways to be a person that way, but, I'm also not sure how to make it visible (or if I should).
That said, beer (so far!) this weekend:
My honey brown & scotch ale (I make some good beer). Smuttynose homonculus (belgian golden--hoppy for a belgian), and Jolly Pumpkin's La Roja (flemmish red := sour goodness).
Grilled so far this weekend: one crap-load of kielbasa, 16 hotdogs, 9 veggie burgers, 8 ears of corn, 4 red peppers, 16 shish-kabobs, 1 zucchini, 1 eggplant (smoked, made into babaganoush), 8 Italian sweet sausage.
I cook a lot of meet for a vegetarian. |
We're helping a few people move this summer... We're mentally preparing for #2 today. It should be pretty fast because, well, there's very little stuff involved and it's heading to an enormous house that will look very empty.
Then, I'll come home and work on revision 85.78 of my CAREER proposal. I have an externally imposed deadline of Monday morning to get it to the people who make me not look like I have the grammar of a 5th grader. This, apparently, takes most of a week.
All the supplemental parts are ready, so, that's all good. Except for one big supplemental part: Chair's letter! I haven't seem my chair in a few days... |
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The women's game today was great. Not quite as suspenseful as against Brazil, but no one wants that again.
Now, ManU is on the TeeVee (although I am watching it on computer).
Jul. 13th, 2011 @ 08:09 pm
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Lagunitas--Little sumpin sumpin
T Gaverhopke Extra
My IPA
Trout River's Imperial Stout
Moat Mountain's: Barley wine, a stout, brown, pale, weizen, pils, and blueberry
Val Dieu's Quad--sooooo smooth
Petrus Aged Ale--so sour and tasty
2002 Bigfoot from Sierra
Currently putting a honey brown into a keg and just moved a wheat IPA (similar to LSS above) into a carboy and I'll drop in 2oz of hops later in the week.
Jul. 10th, 2011 @ 09:16 pm
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I made a rather cranky post about someone keeping their crying baby in the lounge outside my office.
More annoying: someone having class in the lounge outside my office! And!!!! Worse!!! Filling students with historically incorrect information!!! AAAAAH. I've had to close the door and turn up the music.
Jul. 6th, 2011 @ 09:12 am
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When you get a call saying, "Well, the reviews are in, and, I just wanted to prepare you for them before I send them to you..." Especially when I've never gotten such a phone call before...
It's likely to be a bloodbath.
More work is headed my way...
Jun. 29th, 2011 @ 11:40 am
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This week's farm share:
2 heads lettuce
1 tomato
1 bunch scallions
1 pint sugarsnap peas
1 bunch beets
1 bunch turnips
1 bunch chard
1 bunch cilantro
Some broccoli.
Food eating now: roasted beets, parsley, cheese, olives & dressing. mmmm.
Tonight's food plan: greens over grits. Maybe with some sausage for the person who likes such things.
Beer news: a nicely hopped IPA goes on tap in the basement. Quaffable.
What to do next? A sour is still on the agenda, but maybe not next. I might brew this weekend even...
Work? Oh, right, I do that. Submitted a grant proposal this morning (40K, no indirect costs!). Revised article to journal 1a this afternoon. I might read a book today. I need to work on the paper-that-will-not-die. It's on revision 1.2million and year 8 of life, but gets closer and closer to publishable.
Jun. 29th, 2011 @ 10:55 am
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