today: a good start.

this morning i arrived to the department early. i even had time to visit the mathematics library and borrow books for research and for this week's talk [1].

this was liberating and raised my spirits:

admittedly, i accomplished nothing mathematically from this ..

(heck, one can design and build a robot to physically obtain books from shelves, if given titles)

.. but somehow i felt productive: this would not be a day spent just teaching. maybe, just maybe, i would read these books. maybe this would be a productive research day.

so far: this positive outlook seems to be working.

already i have thought about soboleν spaces, this afternoon,
and tonight i'll edit a manuscript,
maybe even read one of those books ..

[1] it was evident, this weekend, that i was too ambitious, and needed more expository material about manιfolds, geomeτry, and analysιs.

so i borrowed: do ¢armo, chavεl, and cheegεr-ebιn.