It’s December!! \u00a0Yikes!! \u00a0But also Yay because teaching for this semester is all but over. \u00a0My last ‘lecture’ was on Monday (it was an unprepared review) and that’s also when I gave the last homeworks back. \u00a0This week I need to write a final for December 7th, and then a sick-test for December 20th or 21st for those that self-report being sick on the 7th. \u00a0For some reason I don’t recall there being sick-tests at Stanford, but perhaps I’m mistaken.<\/p>\n
There are lots of other thing in the never-ending pipeline. \u00a0Three days after the final I will be taking off to California to attend the AGU conference in San Francisco, meet friends, and shop for\u00a0Christmas\u00a0presents – not necessarily in that order. \u00a0I will be returning a week later. \u00a0(If people want to have company during that week, I’m sure Finnur wouldn’t mind not having to cook dinner! :))<\/p>\n
I also have to figure out what the %#$”& I will be teaching in my ‘Antennas and Wave Propagation’ course in the new year – and from which book. \u00a0It been taught for 13 years by a radio amateur, so that’s where the emphasis has been. \u00a0Now, I’m not a radio amateur, and I have never designed an antenna for realz (attempted to simulate one in Matlab for a final project in grad school, but misunderstood the directions, so it was a somewhat epic fail), so this course should be somewhat, erm, colorful. \u00a0But I’m giving it a go, and expecting to learn lots in the process. \u00a0As it turns out, I still find learning fun!<\/p>\n
Health-wise we’ve mostly stayed upright, although Finnur got zapped by a random stray bug on the day we celebrated Thanksgiving (New Out-of-Order Blog Entry!!)<\/a> and Anna collapsed into the sofa after returning from school today and fell asleep. \u00a0She will almost certainly not be going to school tomorrow. \u00a0Also, daycare just reported a case of scarlet fever<\/a>… oh fun!<\/p>\n Anyway, it’s time for bed. \u00a0Oh, but also scroll down for a second new-out-of-order entry: Jumping Kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s December!! \u00a0Yikes!! \u00a0But also Yay because teaching for this semester is all but over. \u00a0My last ‘lecture’ was on Monday (it was an unprepared review) and that’s also when I gave the last homeworks back. \u00a0This week I need to write a final for December 7th, and then a sick-test for December 20th orRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}