Last week felt like a particularly long one, even though I wasted so much of it... Started Aaron to the airport, then marking, then finishing MYST III. Really felt like that happened a long time ago. By the way, I finished MYST III in under a week...certainly a lot shorter than I thought.

I was at a TRACE workshop titled So you wanna be a faculty member? Conclusion? I will not be a faculty member. In fact, since I have decided I will not be a faculty member, does that mean that studying for a PhD is essentially a waste of time? Anyway, one of the things that really struck me was the following line on the slides (page 4 upper lefthand corner): "Same field of study with same supervisor for Masters & PhD is frowned upon (just asking to get your butt kicked!!)" Hmm...so...I'm screwed?

Played a bit more MYST today, despite my conscience telling me otherwise. There's this "lights out" puzzle where if you push a square, its neighbouring squares reverse their signals (on to off, off to on). On my first try, it took forever and I couldn't solve it. After a bit of sleep, on my second try, I used the greedy algorithm and it worked! That's really strange...