Unbridled Optimism Remix

Hmmm... there's some good looking summer goals over at Learning Curves. I'll take #1, but on my dissertation topic rather than a new problem. I prefer Scrabble with Delgatty rules, so I'll never achieve, nor want to achieve, #2. Substitute #3 with catching up on my stack of bedtime reading (need to return books belonging to others). That, and reading the Matroid book I've been renewing for over a year now. (I'll read it one of these days... if nothing else, it's telling the math library that matriod books are popular. :P ) Although I'd love to tackle something like #4, I rent... so I don't think my landlords would be too pleased with me. #5 with somewhat different numbers... I'll be happy if I ever make it back down to 129. Skip #6, or replace it with reading some interesting papers. And my favourite is #7:

Knit and crochet enough to cause the derivative of my yarn stash to become negative -- or at the very least, to get the second derivative to become negative.

I might as well add a vague #8: get lots and lots done on my dissertation.

My goal with Helen is to finish our next red-black tree paper. We're getting close, so it should be possible. :) (Yes, another publication that I can't use as part of my dissertation.)