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I'd intended to go to the 84th Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic last weekend: however, what with getting my passport renewed (YOU HAVE A WEEK TO GET YOUR PASSPORT RENEWED BEFORE THE COST GOES UP AND THEY GET EVEN MORE INTRUSIVE! IT'S REALLY EASY IF YOU'VE ALREADY GOT A PASSPORT!) and general lameness (and the secretaries losing my request for travel funds) I still hadn't booked any transport to Braunschweig by Thursday*. So that idea was out.
Fortunately, there were not one, but two juggling conventions on last weekend: one in Durham, and one in Aberdeen. A couple of friends from the club were going to the Durham one, so that seemed like a reasonable plan.
Of course, I didn't do that either: I ( went to the mountains instead. )
Anyway, while trying to decide what to do the next day on Friday night (I actually packed both sets of kit, and only made the final decision at six o'clock the next morning), I discovered that ( my approach of stalking juggling tricks using all available cover was starting to pay off )
It occurs to me that I'm probably more serious about learning to juggle five balls than I am about my thesis at the moment.
Speaking of maths, I was talking to a friend today, and it seems she had an experience very much like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stronae's: someone else published a solution to most of the problem she was working on, and claimed that the rest was easy to do. She's just finished her third year, so it's a bit problematic. She was considering giving up, but her supervisor reckons it's fixable, and that she'll be able to submit in March. God knows how. stronae, how's that going for you? Did you decide to publish your stuff in the end? Or are you working on something else?
* It turns out to be surprisingly hard to get to Braunschweig from Glasgow if you don't have unlimited time to spend on trains...
** Out of 284, currently. They keep changing their minds about which mountains are Munros - we walked over a couple of tops that were Munros in the 1971 tables that I have, but aren't in the new ones.
Fortunately, there were not one, but two juggling conventions on last weekend: one in Durham, and one in Aberdeen. A couple of friends from the club were going to the Durham one, so that seemed like a reasonable plan.
Of course, I didn't do that either: I ( went to the mountains instead. )
Anyway, while trying to decide what to do the next day on Friday night (I actually packed both sets of kit, and only made the final decision at six o'clock the next morning), I discovered that ( my approach of stalking juggling tricks using all available cover was starting to pay off )
It occurs to me that I'm probably more serious about learning to juggle five balls than I am about my thesis at the moment.
Speaking of maths, I was talking to a friend today, and it seems she had an experience very much like
stronae's: someone else published a solution to most of the problem she was working on, and claimed that the rest was easy to do. She's just finished her third year, so it's a bit problematic. She was considering giving up, but her supervisor reckons it's fixable, and that she'll be able to submit in March. God knows how. stronae, how's that going for you? Did you decide to publish your stuff in the end? Or are you working on something else?* It turns out to be surprisingly hard to get to Braunschweig from Glasgow if you don't have unlimited time to spend on trains...
** Out of 284, currently. They keep changing their minds about which mountains are Munros - we walked over a couple of tops that were Munros in the 1971 tables that I have, but aren't in the new ones.