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Clocks go back 1 hour tomorrow, supposedly we can all get 1 more hour of sleep. Yeah, right; tell that to my kids. Clocks, schmocks. I will be blogging daily in November, as I did the last two years, starting new stuff November 2nd, after a grant deadline. A repost tomorrow. The latest repost brought thoughts on work
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I am very grouchy. Instead of wasting the time I don’t have on a new post, here’s a reasonably close approximation of my thoughts, a repost of this piece. ———————- When you blog for a while, sooner or later you start revisiting the topics you discussed before. Some of them you visit multiple times. A few,
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Readers who are chemists or in related fields: I have a question where I appear to disagree with Eldest’s chemistry honors teacher. It’s about the (ground state) electronic configurations of atoms. It’s not a problem as to which orbitals get filled first; it’s slightly more subtle. Namely, once you start filling a degenerate set of orbitals (the set
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Breaking news: Detaching from work helps one re-energize for work. Who knew? I always thought that I needed more time to veg out. It turns out I detach from work best when I am very busy all weekend, but with non-work stuff. This weekend I spent five hours timing at a swim meet, we had friends over
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Yesterday I received requests to review not one but two papers co-authored by the same person; the papers are from different journals and on different topics, but that makes 3 papers from the same guy within a month. Obviously, I am on his preferred reviewer list, which is fine. He works in my field and I am happy to review.
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Usually you hear “People, not projects” in discussions on how grant dollars should be distributed. Yesterday I came to think how the syntagma holds for collaborations. I have long-term collaborators with whom I really enjoy working. Our collaborations may not be continuous, but they are frequent as we often apply or funds together. I like how they think, how they work
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I have been a delinquent blogger as the semester hit me like a ton of bricks. Work has been good, if a touch too abundant, with three long papers recently submitted as a culmination of a summer of hard work. And now it’s proposal-writin’ time. I must admit I don’t have much of an inspiration to
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The semester has started. I hate it when semesters start, yet the bastards keep doing it. Why the hate, you ask? Don’t you like teaching? Actually, I love teaching. I don’t mind students returning one bit; students are cool and fun and make the campus alive and bubbly. I don’t object at all to the professing part of
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I just came back from yet another conference and am looking forward to staying put for a while. Every graduate student should experience a several-thousand-attendee conference. However, I find these meetings to be generally a poor use of the large amounts of money that are needed to attend them. They are held in expensive locales, with large
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