I’m writing this FROM MY BRAND NEW OFFICE. On my BRAND NEW OFFICE COMPUTER.
Although I’m a linux girl at heart, and will certainly run Ubuntu on my laptop, I requested a mac here at Hamilton because (a) they (reasonably!) don’t support linux for faculty and (b) that means that to run Macaulay2 and other commalg software, I needed a mac. Having once tried to get M2 running on a windows machine…
Yesterday, my friends helped pack up my “relocube” (review of the abf freight upack service to follow…) for my impending move. Luckily, my friends are masters of time and space, and the packing went quickly. Of course, I’ve been on crutches following the knee injury (bursitis, no infection; prognosis is pretty good once I find time to rest my leg!). So I wasn’t really able to do much except worry, nag, and totter around in the way of everyone.