{"id":616,"date":"2006-07-07T21:25:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T21:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/taomph\/?p=616"},"modified":"2006-07-07T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T21:25:35","slug":"test-259","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/07\/test-259\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSummertime is the worst time of the year for physics. I’ve said this many times before, but no season is busier. I suppose it’s timed to coincide with professorial “free time”, when classes end and researchers can get back to their life of labs and meetings. For a post-doc or a grad student, this is no time to slack off at the beach . . . though we all desperately want to do just that! To illustrate: in order to get the project I am working on to the ICHEP, my two colleagues and I had to work on both days of July 3rd and 4th. Two of us are Americans, and the other knows a good holiday when he sees one. Regardless, we all sweated out those two days just to make the deadline, watched a few fireworks and drank a few beers, and then went back to our normal research lives again on July 5th.<\/p>\n

\nJodi is faring no better. It’s crunch time for her experiment, and everybody is working overtime – as if such a thing existed in science – to make a good show of it. We’d both planned to skive off this week, taking a day to make up for the holiday physics ripped from our grasps. Alas it was not to be: Jodi had more of the same work on Wednesday, Thursday, and today. I had papers to read and edit, other analyses to think about, and just generally a lot of collaboration business to attend. Jodi and I were both simply very glad when we could leave the office, walking into a VERY hot California afternoon, and go home for a few hours, at least, away from the summer physics cram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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