Well, I’m newly back from Japan and in less time than it takes to shake off 14 hours of jet lag I’m back in the thick of being faculty. This time of year is really kind of a mess. The triple-whammy of Veterans day, Thanksgiving and finals really makes the last month of the semester something of a jumbled affair. Add to this the chaos of extra end-of-the-semester things like student thesis proposals, teaching evaluation forms, last-minutes committee meetings, and a bonus HST proposal (or two?) and it begins to look like a tasty soup indeed.
Ah well, with all this going on it’s obviously the ideal time to try and discover new ways to spend non-existent free time on the ‘net right? So, just before leaving for Tokyo, I got tagged by a voice from the past (Hi Keith :) ) who’d hunted me down and, among other things, told me that there’s a whole bunch of people that I used to know lurking on Facebook. And indeed, some quick poking around does seem to bear this out. So it seems that I may be sticking my toes into those waters as well.
Meanwhile I need to grade the last month of cosmology homework, invent next weeks last cosmology homework, invent some test questions for the astro seminar quiz, and other sundry teacher stuff. And perhaps write an HST proposal for the Cycle 16 extension using everyones least favorite infrared detector NICMOS. Oh and Tom Maccarone wrote me an email this morning (well morning my time, not his) asking me if I’d like to join him on an HST proposal based on a conversation we had like 2 years ago in Southampton. Sure... why not. Tom’s on facebook too... It’s a funny old world...
Ah well, with all this going on it’s obviously the ideal time to try and discover new ways to spend non-existent free time on the ‘net right? So, just before leaving for Tokyo, I got tagged by a voice from the past (Hi Keith :) ) who’d hunted me down and, among other things, told me that there’s a whole bunch of people that I used to know lurking on Facebook. And indeed, some quick poking around does seem to bear this out. So it seems that I may be sticking my toes into those waters as well.
Meanwhile I need to grade the last month of cosmology homework, invent next weeks last cosmology homework, invent some test questions for the astro seminar quiz, and other sundry teacher stuff. And perhaps write an HST proposal for the Cycle 16 extension using everyones least favorite infrared detector NICMOS. Oh and Tom Maccarone wrote me an email this morning (well morning my time, not his) asking me if I’d like to join him on an HST proposal based on a conversation we had like 2 years ago in Southampton. Sure... why not. Tom’s on facebook too... It’s a funny old world...
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Hi, Chris :)
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