Tuesday Night Madness

This is one of those nights, with a lot of little things staring at me from my to-do list, clamoring for attention. I’m hoping giving a run down will be cathartic.

• Review the final version of a midterm exam I am giving my Logic and Computation class tomorrow;
• Finish writing up some slides about my research program for the faculty overview shindig that our College is hosting on Thursday;
• Read and edit the final version of a paper accepted to MFPS’09 that need to go out on Friday;
• Write up my introduction to the ACM Graduate Student Panel that I am moderating tomorrow over lunch;
• Finish writing a letter of recommendation for a past M.Sc. student of mine applying to a doctoral program.

It’s times like these that make me wonder why I decided to go into academia. I’ll try very hard not to put those kind of feelings into my Graduate Student Panel introduction tomorrow.

Just so you don’t feel like you have wasted your time listening to me whine, here is the news of the day: Barbara Liskov wins the Turing award.