All nighter coming up...

Today is going to be a very long day. In fact, I will probably end up pulling an all nighter to night.

Andy will be here to talk about his recently submitted paper. Andy was my first graduate student and a real help to me getting tenure. He has taken his thesis work, improved on it, and has now submitted it for publication! You don't get to submit papers very often; so this is truely awsome. Congradulations to Andy! Hey -- it looks like Andy is a music star too!

Unfortunately, I need to be in Chicago for a meeting I'm running tomorrow. The only flight that allows me to see Andy's talk and be in Chicago tomorrow leaves seattle at... 11:20pm. It arrives in Chicago at about 5am. And then I have an 8am meeting I need to attend. I might get an hour of sleep...

The rest of today will be filled with getting several talks ready for tomorrow (and finishing up the research required to get those talks ready). I have a day off from lecturing: my class has its first midterm tomorrow. This one is hard. Of course, the last time I said that, they scored an average of 73 (which is high). Smart students. I guess that is why it is the honors section! Good luck to them!