I have noticed something terrible about my semester so far. My weekends have disappeared. Yeah, I actually know what they are — I’m supposed to get some time to rest, but instead I find myself sucked into a terrible time.
The scene outside my house on Saturday night, as I imagine it. (Probably not to scale.)
These are minor disruptions. The bigger issue right now is that I’m teaching a new class this year, and my weekends are consumed with composing new lectures, which I can do in the time I have available, except that my brain doesn’t stop at 10pm to let me sleep. I go over and over these lectures all night long, spiced up with cars honking and chattering passers-by. Here it is, Monday morning, and I’m worn out. I go to work to let my brain relax into a routine…but not to sleep, unfortunately.
Now I have to go to class and somehow talk to them about the contrast between Bacon’s confidence in induction and Hume’s doubts about the same. Good thing I’ve been rehearsing it all night long!
I did not consider “serial killer” as a profession until I lived underneath people who played music LOUDLY at 2 am.
And now that I live in a silent house, I often have insomnia until 4 thinking of the day ahead. Not optimal if you need to keep sharp.
The problem of induction is in assuming these parties will be occurring every Saturday night.
It’s the 6th week of the term. So far the observation is holding up well.
Induction….use strong currents to fry the car honking loudly in the middle of the night?
Maybe generate sound waves at opposite phase with the sound of the students, turning the resulting wave into infrasound. There is an engineering solution to every problem.
@4 Yard-A-Pult
Because there is an engineering solution to every problem.
Don’t get mad: get even! Try playing Mantovani at all hours of the afternoon…