Finally, I'm back in bidness after having gotten the crap kicked out of me by the flu.
As was expected, my stuff-to-do pile has increased significantly, including some paper-pushing administrative crap, but that's ok, 'cause my job rules. Sure; there are aspects of it I'd be happy to live without, but what job doesn't have any downsides. When all is said and done, I get to do the following over the next few days:
As was expected, my stuff-to-do pile has increased significantly, including some paper-pushing administrative crap, but that's ok, 'cause my job rules. Sure; there are aspects of it I'd be happy to live without, but what job doesn't have any downsides. When all is said and done, I get to do the following over the next few days:
- teach students about Feynman's method for determining the root-mean-square end-to-end distance in drunken walks
- wax poetically about statistical thermodynamics to unprepared students (it can be shown that...)
- do that final data treatment and write together the discussion section on a kick-ass paper
- look at the latest kewl results and theories obtained by post doc + master student
- review manuscripts for two different journals
- write short grant proposal
- attend some meetings and outline at least three more papers
Academic life is good
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Academic life is good
Guess you're happy as a pig in a pile of sh@t. It's great to have an interesting job. Good for you.
It IS good to have an interesting job, and while I might complain every now and then, I'm always fully aware of the fact that at the end of the day, my job is quite kewl.
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