There is a mosquito somewhere in the room

Yesterday I went in early for a talk by someone at Michigan who’s doing
research extremely relevant to our work, which was fascinating— their
driving focus is on cognitive architecture, which lets them layer system
learning at several levels of abstraction. I joined a subset of T’s group
having lunch with the speaker, and had a grand time. Very personable guy,
and a CMU alum from the 80s.

Spent the rest of the day polishing the draft type system proposal, and
sent it off to D for feedback and to T in lieu of our weekly progress
report meeting, which got unexpectedly et by the president’s office.

After work I made rice and stuff with thyme, and P remembered how to make
pizza.

I contacted the woman who runs one of the IBS groups I follow about joining
her clientele, as she’s opened her book for a bit. Alas, I forgot to check
her time zone— predictably she’s in Brisbane, which makes scheduling any
kind of synchronous meeting quite awkward. We’ll see.