In the Dark

There’s been a lot of rain recently, combined with an unusual easterly wind; the usual prevailing wind in Ireland is from a westerly direction. I’ve managed to avoid the worst of the wet until today. On the way home from work this evening I got absolutely drenched. A lot of water had pooled on the paths and pavements on campus too; I hadn’t put sufficiently sturdy footwear on so my feet got wet too. It seems set to be similar weather tomorrow, so I’ll make sure I’m better prepared. Was it Billy Connolly who said that there’s not really such a thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes?

We are approaching the end of Week 2 of Semester 2 at Maynooth. I’ve been busy with the usual start-of-term things as well as some other jobs of the sort that crop up from time to time. I started teaching Computational Physics again last week for the first time in a different computer lab, and there were numerous problems with logins, etc, which caused quite a lot of stress. The second cycle of labs started today and everything went much better. I hope this continues. My lecture course on Particle Physics seems to be going reasonably well too, although it’s early days. Hopefully things will settle down and I won’t feel so exhausted for the rest of term. Thursdays are busy for me this term, with a 9am lecture as well as a lab and, today, several other things in between. Combined with the drenching on the way home I feel in need of refreshment, so I think I’ll have a hot bath followed by a glass of brandy and an early night…

P.S. Anniversaries often give me ideas for blog posts but I forgot one yesterday, which was ten years to the day since the announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves. Here’s the blog I did on that day. Was it really a decade ago?

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