{"id":497,"date":"2011-10-18T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-10-18T00:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:17:00","slug":"it-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"It Never Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic has a certain magic that lets it consume one’s life beyond recognition. This semester, I only have three classes, plus research and teaching, and yet somehow the day ends later every day.<\/p>\n

I got my top choice for teaching, and I love it, but I don’t know if it’s worth the effort sometimes. The class is Environmental Science, which I took last year, my first exposure to much of the field. But now, weekly I’m putting together big recitation-section lectures, and I just finished the grading the two inches of paper that made their first assignment.<\/p>\n

My classes for credit each have their charms. Geophysical Inverse Theory has already proved useful, and takes place on the beautiful Lamont campus. <\/a>
\nEnvironmental and Resource Economics is usually good for a shot of ideas and a bottle of math.
\nSustainability Science has half good discussions, half bad discussions, and half aimless commentary.<\/p>\n

In other news, my work on flooding from glacial melt got accepted for a poster session at the huge AGU conference in San Francisco, in December. My program should have some money to send me there.<\/p>\n

I participated in “Data without Borders” last weekend, which was lots of fun. My team was pretty serious, the food was plentiful, and the people nice and interesting.<\/p>\n

Now I need to sleep. Elinor Ostrom is lecturing Sustainability Science tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academic has a certain magic that lets it consume one’s life beyond recognition. This semester, I only have three classes, plus research and teaching, and yet somehow the day ends later every day. I got my top choice for teaching, and I love it, but I don’t know if it’s worth the effort sometimes. The … Continue reading It Never Ends<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}