Mad Andrew's Journal

Hi, I'm Andrew and I'll be your shill for this evening.
Plenty to say, but haven't had time to say it recently. So here's a bit of a core dump:

Tuesday, an innocuous comment from the editorial board sent us down the path that discovered several mistakes in what our analysis had done. I take responsibility for the lion's share of these, but some of it can be chalked up to my inexperience. I'm not pointing any fingers here, but considering the fact that there were several more senior people involved, one would think that someone would have seen the problem before. But no. So Tuesday's work day ran into Wednesday, as I essentially redid around a month's worth of work in one night. A bug was found in the simulation for the other channel of the analysis, so even though I was done yesterday, the EB doesn't have an update because the two channels are linked in one document. So that's bad, but we still might make MoriondQCD.

Wednesday is the cause of the title of this entry. I have been tapped as one of the presenters from my experiment for a poster session at the DOE review of the lab, coming in two weeks. So I've got to make the poster and sell myself and the experiment for around an hour that night. Can I somehow keep the vitriol in check? I won't point out the irony of being honored for my hard work by being given more work.

Today hopefully this analysis comes to an end and I can start working on the real deal, the one with almost twice the data, that will go in the thesis.

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