Some are externally imposed, and others are self-imposed. This Friday is the PLDI deadline. In addition to my own paper, over the past few weeks, I’ve been spending more and more time at the lab working with the people there on a second paper. All of the implementation work and experiments have been done by someone else, but I’ve been contributing ideas, and now I am revising the paper, since mine is in pretty good shape.
I suppose that is the only externally imposed deadline. The self-imposed ones are as follows. 1.) This coming weekend after the papers are finished, I want to finish working on the pictures from my brother’s wedding. I have most of them posted to Flickr already, but there are still a number left to do. 2.) By this Monday, I need to send email to the Professor in the Systems group at ETH Zurich who wants to host me for a post-doc, or whatnot. Mostly to introduce myself, but also to figure out what the process is for applying and getting myself over there, and so forth.
There was a third thing, too… Oh, yah! That whole dissertation thing. I can say that it is coming along well because my PLDI paper is more-or-less the last real content I have to develop for it (whether or not the paper is accepted). I am waiting until early next semester to file, but I want to finish all of the actual work on it between the PLDI deadline and winter break. It’ll be a bit of a slog, but I’ll have vacation in Florida with Christina and her family to look forward to, so I think I’ll be able to make it =)
Other than that, things have been pretty slow. The weather is getting colder. The Steelers aren’t doing so well, but the Penguins are still awesome. I’ll be sticking around here in Berkeley for Thanksgiving since plane tickets got to be too expensive, which I am a bit sad about, but hopefully there will be some potluck sort of deal to go to.
Hopefully I’ll be able to make more interesting posts after all this work is finished!