[thesis swamp] work e-mail back under 1k unread

So I have been ignoring... pretty much everything... that wasn't directly related to Thesis Shit (or The Paper)... in my work inbox... since about November, with the result that I'd got up to ~2.2k e-mails unread as of hand-in.

It is now back down to 990 (because I have been skimming, but also limiting myself to a target of 100 and a maximum of 200) for the past week, with several surveys filled out and... several... papers open to read in tabs and a lot of skim-reading of lively discussions on academic mailing lists.

So far, my favourite is the demonstration that going for a jog leaves you isotopically heavier: ( Read more... )

(Actually reading the backlog of papers, and indeed catching up on recordings of a workshop I managed to sleep through, is a job for next week...)