My life has been extra hectic this past week. I’m trying to finish the initial iteration of design eXchange, a wiki-based content management system that the first-year masters students (and selected others) will be using during their two-year stay at IU. I also have a couple other little projects still trickling in some changes. Then there is the yet-to-be-completed presentation for next week in Denmark. Thank God for 24-hour travel days. And, of course, there are the unexpected things, such as my ISP’s MySQL server suddenly disabling the InnoDB table types and killing a number of my sites (not this one, fortunately).
I don’t know if I’ll have a chance to catch up on the many, many blog posts I wanted to do by now, including a bunch of stats hacks. But in lieu of that, here’s a short list of shout outs:
- Thanks for the art supplies, Tif. The kids pound me on the head with the notebooks to wake me up in the morning.
- Kynthia, my comment to your blog didn’t post, but it would be swell if you could collect anything you can find of interest on the Stone of Destiny (particularly photos of the Glasgow campus). You are living my dream trip to Scotland.
- Matt, good luck on the job hunt. I’d still work with you on any project, any time. I just can’t pay squat.
- My new best friend Soren (a business acquaintance of a high school pal) has volunteered to meet me at the Copenhagen airport Sunday, talk to me in my travel-induced stupor for a while, and then whisk me to the correct train to Odense. A really caring new best friend would also wake up at 2a to come get me on the return trip Thursday, but I’ll take what I can get. My best to your family, who I’ll meet Sunday.
- Should my plane meet an unscheduled and fatal end (which, sad to say, is just one of my anxieties about this first trip overseas), know that my love for Amy, Carter and Archie is eternal. And I’m going to pick up a How-To voodoo book in the lobby at O’Hare to find out how to astral project my essence to a nearby cloud until I can find a slightly taller body to inhabit and make the trek back to Bloomington.
