I have been off the books all this time with the visit from Meri and Ann. Even today that I was by myself. I woke up around 10:12 AM and took a shower, made some oatmeal and checked my feeds on Google's Reader. Then I headed to my office where I bought the bus tickets for the trip to Amherst online and then went to the post office to get boxes to ship some stuff for Meri's parents in California. When I got back to my office I decided to recycle all the used paper in the lab notebooks of my past class. I got a nice set of empty sheets of paper that I can use for calculations.
Most of the blogging online now is about Strings 2007, the annual conference about new developments in the field of string theory and related topics. I just want to say something about this: I was keeping an eye on the Strings 07 poster at the department's board and I guess someone took it. I wanted that poster! Oh well... The main buzz is about Ed Witten's latest paper on 2 + 1 gravity. Clifford writes that he not attending the conference might be a sign of some exciting new development being announce this year. Let us cross our fingers.
I should stop blogging about something I do not even understand and try to read something that could at least put me on the track to some day reach this understanding. With the trip to Amherst this week, and with friends visiting next weekend all seems a bit hopeless. I am going to try to finish the chapter on manifolds and see if I can cover the one on Riemannian geometry.
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