diarish

[kaberett]

Thing that is nice: I am mostly, currently, getting to horn practice o'clock after dinner, starting around eight, which is to say, just about as bat o'clock rolls around. I get to sit in the study and make squawking music and watch A Bat happen. It is lovely.

Another thing that is nice: I have spent the afternoon pivoting from "ugh but I don't WANT to read this paper from 1997" (the year I finally learned how to tie a shoelaces, via a lot of concerted effort) to "as a geologist I get to gleefully declare that I am CORRECT about the fundamental nature of the world and it's even ACCURATE (and now I've done that maths I suppose I'd better read the paper)".

I'm still see-sawing wildly between solid trust in my own models and towering impostor syndrome, of course, but it's so satisfying that every time I go "oh heck I didn't consider this constraint--" my beautiful model just. satisfies it. without even needing any massaging. Almost as if I'm right, or something.

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[vass]

I'm still see-sawing wildly between solid trust in my own models and towering imposter syndrome, of course, but it's so satisfying that every time I go "oh heck I didn't consider this constraint--" my beautiful model just. satisfies it. without even needing any massaging. Almost as if I'm right, or something.

This is so happy-making to read.

[kaberett]

it is SO GOOD.

(so far 2/6 co-authors have said I can pretty much just go ahead and resubmit as is modulo some tweaks to the figures, and 1/6 has said "well MAYBE we should tone down the language in the response a little...")