Happy Pi Day

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In cat news: my cat likes to lick the ends of my hair when I get out of the shower--she must like the taste of my conditioner or the drops of water or something. Anyway, this morning I heard lick lick CRUNCH. She managed to bite off a small lock of hair. I don't think I'm going to let her lick my hair anymore.

On being excited to go to work

This week, I have been excited to go to work. It's a nice feeling. I'm not completely sure why I'm so excited, but I can think of two possibilities:

1. I have been able to devote large chunks of time towards my dissertation research.
2. I have been able to work on the projects that matter the most to me [writing the Manuscript of Doom: the sequel]

This is work that usually ends up being sandwiched between more pressing demands: teaching, grading, reading papers for class, attending meetings and office hours, feeding and caring for ants. When it gets down to it, however, this is the work that gets me closer to graduating, closer to establishing my research program.

I've been getting better at fitting this work into the usual humdrum schedule--S in Australia helped me see the necessity of doing so. But still. This is a small taste of what the summer will be like.

Oh I amuse myself.

After blathering on about how excited I am to get stuff done at work, I worked for a few hours today and then got really really tired and didn't feel good. So I went home and took a nap. I got some stuff done today, but not as much as I'd hoped (isn't that always the case, except when deadlines are looming).

Oh well.

It is spring break, after all. (I had to throw that in there to be as hypocritical as possible).