- I taught one lecture of my class
- I attended a departmental committee meeting
- I had a meeting with collaborators to work out a paper outline for something we're submitting
- I met with my student and did some nontechnical advising
- I had a (brief) discussion with a collaborator about a pending grant proposal.
Nowhere in there was any actual research done ! Gaaaah !
That's unusual how?
ReplyDeleteThat's been my day for the last month....
I didn't say it's unusual. I just said I didn't like it :)
ReplyDeleteSuresh-- it gets worse every year!
ReplyDeleteFolks, let me see if I can cheer you up with a quote by Gene Lawler (which I heard from Vijay Vazirani): We are underpaid and overworked in academia, but still, there are three good reasons to be in it: June, July, and August.
ReplyDeletearavind
Indeed ! Unfortunately my funding stream isn't stable enough to assume I get paid in JJA :)
ReplyDeleteI work at a University where there are four good reasons to be in academia: May, June, July, August. We have an 8 month academic term. This also means you can in principle pay yourself +4/8 salary during the summer instead of +3/9 salary. If this sounds good to you, please apply at: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/recruiting/index.php
ReplyDeleteKirk Pruhs
Recruiting Chair
CS Dept, Pitt