So even on holidays I'm distracted. I spent a long time today doing algebra (stability analysis on the steady states of my PDE chlamydia model) which was really great (haven't done that in ages) but then at 5pm as I'm walking through the door bringing little Dan home, work calls. I had forgotten to rerank applications for the QUT vice chancellor's scholarships.
Rerank? Yes rerank. I already did it once. I had ranked all but about 7 of the fifty or so applications in my pile, all along the way thinking that some of the written statements and supporting materials didn't match. Then finally I realized that they were all wrong. The cover sheets with written statements had been given to me with the wrong supporting materials. I was so pissed. I was meaning to do this Friday before I left work, but forgot. So I've tried to do as much as I can tonight but will now have to go to work in the morning to finish it off.
The point is, even when things seemed to be going well, something came along and stuffed it up - now I will need to attempt to catch up with where I wanted to be somehow.
Although in good news my algebra on the stability analysis revealed an error in my previous work and a nice new result about the stability requirement for one of my steady states - yay!
Now off to read about the Ruth-Hurwitz stability criterion.
This post could easily have been titled: "It happens. What - shit? Sometimes."
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