rebeccmeister | Progress.

I buried this in a comment somewhere, but today I managed to get Beryl set up to hibernate (new Ubuntu-machine is named Beryl, by the way). Helpful so I don't have to shut the computer down every time I want to schlep it somewhere. That was no small task.

I also got underway with USB'ing files onto Beryl. The biggest piece of progress there was transferring over all my music files and also managing to remember+figure out how to update all my playlists so they'll work on Beryl (this is fairly simple with sed but I use sed infrequently so I had to scratch my head for a couple minutes there).

Got the Bicycling syllabus done, and sent out the initial survey to find out how many don't have bicycles. Also contacted the local bike co-op to arrange a date for a fieldtrip, and discovered a form to fill out to get some teaching materials for the course from our regional transportation authority.

Got my students' Independent Study Project Description forms done. This was not a small task because there are 4 forms now instead of just 2; my three seniors are going to be writing research papers this semester, while the other four will be working on other research tasks. So, separate descriptions and sets of expectations. The cat-herding continues, but that's fine. It will all be fine.

I guess tomorrow will be the Advanced GenBio syllabus and schedule, and then back over to the beast that is Animal Phys, plus a bunch of futzing in our local LMS. I'm pretty sure I need to be ordering animals from Carolina Biological as of yesterday or so.

So now it's 7 pm and I can finally go home, eat dinner, and crawl into bed.