This coming month’s looking like it’s going to be pretty full. Here’s why:
- I’m moving both house and office in the next little while. I’m getting keys to both spaces tomorrow; I figure I’ll be spending much of the weekend carting stuff between my old office and the new one, figuring out the finer points of how to arrange my new (window-licious!) space. Hopefully, I’ll work out some way of keeping the new space somewhat more kempt than my current. As for the change of residence, I haven’t figured out the means yet — movers vs. old-fashioned moving party — nor the exact timing of the move, including factors like whether I want to paint (and whether I could afford to paint, even if I wanted to).
- I’m teaching a totally new-to-me class (Math History). The week of introductory lectures have been short, but hopefully that’ll be changing next week once I get into the real meat of the subject. There has been a certain amount of positive feedback to the idea that I should podcast the course, but doing that might possibly run afoul of the distance-ed people on campus; what I might do instead is wait until the fall and put together a “Math History Break” series once I’ve got a little more leisure to do so.
- Still trying to reach ten-and-ten: earlier this summer, my tenth research paper has been accepted for publication. I’ve got something like four more out being refereed right now, and a lot of mostly-finished papers lying around the bottom of the hard drive; it’s not impossible to finish another six, giving me ten papers at the referees to go with the ten already accepted or published. (Although this might be an example of summer vertigo.)
Social obligations: a wedding in Waterloo, a DANGER meeting, and a couple of visits to ecogrrl while she’s in exile a little ways south of here. I’m having a certain amount of trouble readjusting to my usual social isolation after spending the better part of a month and a half around my people again, so I welcome these opportunities; however, getting to and from does take a certain amount of time.- Oh, and a bunch of new novels came out last month; I’m grabbing and reading them as they appear at my local public library. Probably shouldn’t count for this list except that they’re what’s driving my waking hours into Alaska Standard Time at the moment.