{"id":1150,"date":"2009-02-02T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/playing-catchup\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T21:33:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T02:33:55","slug":"playing-catchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/playing-catchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Catchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been neglecting the science and journal aspects of this blog for some time. The reasons are good &#8211; I have been focusing on the things that have been demanding my time since the Christmas break. Mainly, faculty job search-related activities, ramping up for this year&#8217;s lobbying trip to Washington D.C., physics analysis, and what semblance of a home life is left at the end. Tomorrow marks the last of my seminar trips, of which I have had 12 so far.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m heading to Caltech in the morning, to deliver the HEP seminar in the afternoon. I&#8217;ve never been to Caltech before, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing it for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, I&#8217;ll be back at work until Friday morning, when I and many others head to Fermilab for the Washington trip kick-off meeting. That&#8217;s followed next week by the winter BaBar collaboration meeting, and then finally I&#8217;ll have time to again focus on research activities, which DESPERATELY need attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been neglecting the science and journal aspects of this blog for some time. The reasons are good &#8211; I have been focusing on the things that have been demanding my time since the Christmas break. Mainly, faculty job search-related activities, ramping up for this year&#8217;s lobbying trip to Washington D.C., physics analysis, and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[27,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-1150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-physics-2","9":"tag-travel","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}