Paranoia? Preparedness.
So since it seems like you can get Covid now just from looking at an infected person*, I decided to go get an air purifier for my office for an additional layer of protection.
I don’t let anyone in my office anymore because it’s my “Covid Safe Zone” (I hold office hours in a different room), but the cleaners come in there every few weeks and mop the floors and stuff, and I want a way to help clear the air faster and more efficiently after someone else has been in there.
And also just in general, because I don’t trust our ventilation system anymore, either.
Anyway, behold!
(Yes, I have Christmas lights in my office. They make me happy, fight me.)
*Obviously an exaggeration, but the newest strains seem super contagious
It’s Like a Reward
So for whatever reason, I’ve decided that I’m not allowed to decorate my office door with cartoons and the like until (unless) I get tenure.
That’s…that’s just the rule.
BUT, while I was running this morning, I thought of a cool way to display said cartoons should I actually get tenure. I could make like a little Cartesian plane on my door with one axis that goes from “no math” to “math” and another axis that goes from “not obscure” to “obscure” and then plot a bunch of cartoons according to these to criteria.
If that’s not a perfect way to display cartoons in a math/stats department, then there isn’t one.
The Office
AAAAAAAAA I FINALLY HAVE MY OWN OFFICE
LOOK LOOK LOOK
New office
I moved offices today! I got “promoted” to the fifth floor where all the professors/post docs are. I met the lady who will be taking over my desk in my old office (she’s from Russia and is in the theoretical math area) while I was cleaning out all my crap. She’s super nice and said she wants to come to my lectures so she can refresh her stats, haha.
Here’s a pic of my new office:
I’m sharing it with two post-docs, but one of them isn’t teaching this semester and spends most of his time at Foothills, so he probably won’t be around. The other teaches a math class. Calculus, maybe? I can’t remember.
Anyway, the windows are west-facing, so we’ll get the hot afternoon sun, but there’s no way this office can be hotter than my previous one. That thing was a furnace.
How many grad students does it take to configure an office space?
Answer: Three. One to try and decide in what arrangement the desks should be, one to move said desks, and one to realize, after all possible combinations of desk arrangement have been attempted, that they’ve decided on keeping the desks in the order they were originally.
Yeah.
Related news: I’m moving to the Botany Annex, ‘cause the Social/Personality area needs more space. It’s okay, though, ‘cause in the Annex the windows actually open.
Woo.
Today’s song: Put Your Hands Up for Detroit (Radio Edit) by Fedde Le Grande
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