boredom is a luxury.

the last two months have been quiet.  apart from daily life at the office and a few regular seminars, not much happens in my life that's worth blogging about.

in other words, it's been awesome.

i can concentrate on chasing down ideas, some of them infeasible, a few of them interesting.  i can pursue a line of thought for days at a time, see where it goes.

i can latex for a full day, hack out the details in a single uninterrupted vision, identify the parts that make no sense, work through or around them.

telling you how it's really going -- that requires a level of technical detail that i'd rather not see on a blog, myself.

this is not to say that all of my ideas are working .. but that i feel productive.  i haven't felt that way in a long time.