I can’t believe Thanksgiving is next week – aahhh! Soon it will be the end of the quarter and finals and that conference in SF and then Christmas! Time goes so fast…although on the other hand, I also can’t believe it’s only Tuesday night.
I haven’t had much time to work on Mercury stuff the past few weeks, and that’s been making me feel guilty, even though it’s apparently normal (at least my advisor doesn’t seem to mind). I’m also trying to line up a second orals project (not that I’ll get to start working on it this quarter of course). I talked to one guy about planetary atmosphere stuff, and that sounded pretty neat. We’ll see. I need to brush up on all that stuff I thought I learned in 12.003…what’s a Rossby wave again?
In other news, the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble has just started play choice again, with a whole new batch of dartes, and without me. I guess I feel ok about it. Everything is so busy around here that I can’t imagine being that involved in theater at the same time, but I also find that I need to remind myself every so often that science is fun, an not just an endless string of problem sets.
Reading the play choice emails got me wanting to read more plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. In particular, I’m interested in some of Thomas Middleton’s work (the title of this post is one play, a city comedy). Now if only the online text versions were fun to read from – it just seems wrong to curl up just before bed with a big stack of printer paper…not very cozy. But the books seem too expensive (especially compared to free), and they group the plays in ways I’m not sure I’d appreciate. Oh well, nothing is perfect I guess.
Classes are fine. It looks like I won’t need to drop one, which is good because it would be a little tricky since I would have to add four research credits or something to balance my credit load. I’m doing well in all of them, and probably could afford to do a little worse. I’m working on that.
Looking forward to seeing my family (and my dog!) and not being in Pasadena for a few days. And also the Thanksgiving food =)
