So, it's basically two months down today. I guess I'd say I'm reasonably satisfied with my progress even though I've really got nothing to show so far. Lots of different projects are progressing well and I've had a whole heap of new opportunities open up too. I have one completed manuscript (the one that's been rejected three times!), another of Masoum's very nearly there (needs a couple of pages cut down to meet the 10 page limit), and another three manuscripts nearly half written. I've also got two conference papers about 80% written.
I'm on holidays now for about 15 more days. I'm on recreation leave til Friday and then we have holidays until January 4 because QUT is closed for Christmas. Obviously there will be things going on like Christmas and so on, so I won't be working all the time and I have to take this into account when thinking up any plans or goals, but I'm still hoping to get a fair bit done this week in particular. My current aim is to resubmit the thrice-rejected paper, finish my CTAC paper and another chlamydia modeling paper by the time I return to work. Let's see how that goes!
I'm also planning to get right back on track with the projects of my phd students. Sometimes I feel that they really suffer with me having a dual job (ie my admin-ish job and my academic job)...actually it's more that they suffer because my time is constantly full of meetings. Although at the same time it might be good because they seem to be really good at dealing with being in the deep end looking after their own research! Anyway I'm planning on getting on top of their current models and getting some really good input too them by week 1 of 2011.
Another interesting development: I'm the acting head of maths from January 4-14. I'm curious to see how much less or more work this is compared with being acting assistant dean. That position can be quite time consuming.
Anyway I guess we'll see how I'm going by e end of the week!
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