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Spring is here! A-sp-uh-ring is here!
Apr. 9th, 2004 01:33 pmAnd the sun is shining very brightly. And things are just lovely in many ways.
For instance, I'm ever so secure in the knowledge that my thesis will be done and will be good and desirable within just a few months or so.
We seem to build up quite a clique of computational algebrists here at the institution - me, and one more of the doctorate applicants and one of last years doctorate students all did our theses on different aspects of algebra. I on homological properties, the other applicant just came back from a year (?) in Kaiserslautern building his Gröbner basis algorithm to fit in a software package developed there, and the doctorate student has been writing and rewriting software for calculations on finite-dimensional Lie algebras.
Me and S. visited![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thette and her KJ and their friend Eva (lj?), cooked some wonderful food (preview of the wedding food for Thette and KJ). Lovely.
In connexion to that, I have good reason to conclude that
(1) I need cortison creme as well as asthma inhalator the next time I visit a doctor.
(2) No doggy. Sorry, love, but NO DOGGY!
Eva's cute little dog came visiting as well - and actually dared play a little with me. (It's apparently shy for male homo sapiens ;) The result? After a minor lick-fest, most of my wrist got red, spotted and swollen.
It's quite sad really, because I like dogs - even though I'm currently overwhelmed with evidence that owning one is a bad idea, no matter how allergy-friendly fur it has.
But at least I have a GOOD reason to bring whenever S. tries to insist.
Congress work is ticking along nicely. And I recently submitted a couple of grant applications. One to get money to get through the summer given my congress work; and one to go to a SCHOOL (AND WORKSHOP) ON COMPUTATIONAL ALGEBRA FOR ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY AND STATISTICS in Turin in September. If I go through with that, I'll have to celebrate my birthday a bit off-target. Alas. (Oh, and I'm sincerely hoping I can stick with the algebraic geometry part of it - that's what sounds funfunfun :)
For instance, I'm ever so secure in the knowledge that my thesis will be done and will be good and desirable within just a few months or so.
We seem to build up quite a clique of computational algebrists here at the institution - me, and one more of the doctorate applicants and one of last years doctorate students all did our theses on different aspects of algebra. I on homological properties, the other applicant just came back from a year (?) in Kaiserslautern building his Gröbner basis algorithm to fit in a software package developed there, and the doctorate student has been writing and rewriting software for calculations on finite-dimensional Lie algebras.
Me and S. visited
thette and her KJ and their friend Eva (lj?), cooked some wonderful food (preview of the wedding food for Thette and KJ). Lovely.In connexion to that, I have good reason to conclude that
(1) I need cortison creme as well as asthma inhalator the next time I visit a doctor.
(2) No doggy. Sorry, love, but NO DOGGY!
Eva's cute little dog came visiting as well - and actually dared play a little with me. (It's apparently shy for male homo sapiens ;) The result? After a minor lick-fest, most of my wrist got red, spotted and swollen.
It's quite sad really, because I like dogs - even though I'm currently overwhelmed with evidence that owning one is a bad idea, no matter how allergy-friendly fur it has.
But at least I have a GOOD reason to bring whenever S. tries to insist.
Congress work is ticking along nicely. And I recently submitted a couple of grant applications. One to get money to get through the summer given my congress work; and one to go to a SCHOOL (AND WORKSHOP) ON COMPUTATIONAL ALGEBRA FOR ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY AND STATISTICS in Turin in September. If I go through with that, I'll have to celebrate my birthday a bit off-target. Alas. (Oh, and I'm sincerely hoping I can stick with the algebraic geometry part of it - that's what sounds funfunfun :)
