Whew

Presentation is over, and it went (decently) well. An entire day on pedagogy is also over, and it was also (fairly) useful.

It feels like Saturday, even though it's Wednesday. I'm having a hard time not tossing aside the day's work for playing with yarn, doing some planting, spinning up my new fiber haul, and reading. But these are joys that must be set aside for another day. I have a passel of bills to pay, new feedback on The Old Paper to work on, and a thousand and one ideas for The New Paper which is still in the frenetically researching stage. Next week I'm spending 4 hours a day prepping my class, so this is the big week to get things done.

Let me set a few goals today:

household: charge phone! call/text victoria/heather! pay all bills. Prep packages to be mailed, and mail them whilst picking up another package. order new tags for car. pick up more cat food and a trowel for planting (plus, maybe more dirt? yeah. more dirt. and a tomato support system). if time and desire, sweep kitchen and put away last batch of laundry. and clean cat litter. (sigh). do not purchase food but eat the food left in the house (plenty!). take out trash.

work: go through Aaron's edits for the paper. Calculate SFR surface density and include it in one of the tables. get more info on internal mechanisms/fueling of smbh, make sure the connection between lirgs-are-cool and here-are-fueling-mechs is clear (if it is). update references. clean up desktop.

work 2.0: re to differentiate between statistical analysis work for clustering and alternate clustering mechanisms. focus on one or the other, not both simultaneously. finish close-pairs program. create a better background estimator program or at least get one started. look up KS test and the other one (???). email K.H. and at least thank her for her help.

self: try not to panic.