So far my biggest accomplishment this weekend has been to buy a bookshelf. The principal utility of said bookshelf is that it’s just tall enough that I can easily put things on top of it, and it’s right by the door and hence convenient for things like my keys, my wallet, the daily mail, etc. Plus it’s a bookshelf, which means I have more room for books; I bought a shelf when I first moved here, and found that my currently collection of books filled it up. So I naturally kept buying books. Finally, a remedy for the situation has arrived.
Constrast this, now, with what I’m (still!) hoping the biggest accomplishment of the weekend is going to be: cleaning my apartment with a large fraction of the thouroughness I usually associate with moving days. This part of the plan’s not going quite as well, partly because I have almost no patience with cleaning and no instinct for same, and partly because I made a library run yesterday and picked up multiple sequels of multiple books I was reading while at the parents’ house the other week. I have, therefore, no end of distractions available to me.
Other than that, summer session is in full swing. Week two of throwing high math at students and waiting to see if they catch it starts tomorrow: on this week’s menu we’ve got multiply-quanitifed statements and an introduction to mathematical proof. I’ll also have a visitor in town for much of the week, furthering the goal of getting research done, and a long weekend thereafter.
Every now and then I remember that I have to figure out how JPEG compression works well enough to bedazzle a small class of high-school-teacher types with it in about three weeks time, but then I push that thought away again.