Today again for the first time.

The second day of the semester felt a lot like summer and I'm not talking about the weather.

The Physics III recitation met but we just continued with notes. The lab did not meet and instead, I worked in the Lab, toiling away in utter inefficiency. The reason that I feel down about my efficiency is that I could have solved the problem - it's really more a suite of problems - I ended up having to tackle had I not tried to take some shortcuts this morning. Abstracts for the fall AGU meeting are due on Thursday and I thought that I could get some numbers to put in the abstract if I simply tweaked an existing program to run a batch of files while I did other work and attended class, thereby plunging head-first into a rabbit hole of tweaks and adjustments, second-guesses and sloppy syntax gaffes that are currently lying in a precarious heap on my MIRL hard drive. I find myself worrying that I'm going to get caught spending too much time on a program or group of programs that I cut too many corners when, in fact, Marc would be more interested in me taking the time to get it right initially than to get lucky and spout off a few numbers for him. So tomorrow I may have an opportunity to tidy up my mess but it is more likely that we'll submit the abstract without numbers (a typical move) and I'll get back to the project that Hyomin and I have been working on.

Tu as compris?