Yesterday I had another day of cranking through small but complicated and important tasks. I wrote two letters of recommendation for my PhD student. Now that his dissertation has been approved it's much easier to write compelling rec. letters.
Then I finished a book review, which was a really tricky task. In some ways I really agree with the book, but I found it very poorly conceptualized and thus difficult to evaluate. Seeing a book like that scares the crap out of me in relation to my own book--I have good ideas too, but what if I don't pull it off? What if I majorly misrepresent the secondary literature like the author of this book has?
Today we have to participate in that most Norwegian of activities, a dugnad at E's preschool. I really like dugnader, at least in principle, and am happy to perform tasks for the common good. I'm less excited about the party afterward, since that means I may have to socialize with people. Oh no!
