It aint easy


being green in grad school

Two weeks ago, I was all ready to publish my first paper. I was one signature away from submission. Then my supervisor was all, "You should look for parametric resonance in your equations before you submit this. It should be trivial, and quite easy to show." Right. It's never trivial, and he always forgets the crucial detail that I don't actually know what I am doing.

Well, a frickin week later I actually managed to show on paper (I think) that parametric resonance "should" happen in my equations. Then I looked for it in the data, and all I saw was meaningless scatter. For f--k's sakes. Now the bosssman is in Africa doing who-knows-what, I am leaving for Prague in 2 weeks and my paper is not yet submitted, and aaaaargh!!

Moreover, I've been sleeping like 4-5 hours a night because I'm so busy trying to get at least a small amount of my shit together before I leave for India, and I just can't think straight anymore.

I couldn't help but notice that this seminal text by Arnol'd is a lovely shade of tangerine. I borrowed this book from my pal Dave, but I want to buy my own copy, because it contains all the stuff I was supposed to learn in undergrad and didn't. Also it looks cool on my coffee table.



I totally don't need any more yarn, but since my crush on the color green has not yet ended, I went to Lettuce today and picked up some purty green mission falls cotton. I also got this high class green colander at Honest Ed's to serve as a new yarn receptacle. Mmmhmm!

The cotton is going to become a tiny sweater for my brother & his wife's secondborn, due this november. Yay for babies!

Man, I need some sleep.

Posted: Fri - April 1, 2005 at 03:18 PM        

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