the month ends ..

.. and no, i don't mean june or july (though the ann arbor summer is now 5/8's over, which itself is scary) but that this month of travelling is over:

• 1+ weeks in Poland
  (Bedlewo, and a little of Warsaw and Poznan)
  
  
• 1+ weeks in New York
  (Long Island, and visits to Brooklyn and Queens)
  
  
• 1- weeks in Illinois
  (Champaign-Urbana, and stopovers in Chicago)
  

it was a fine thing to see friends, colleagues, and family, and not worry so much about mathematics. i've gone a little behind from the progress i wanted, but i suppose that was inevitable: everyone else seems to think that my goals are ambitious and slightly unrealistic.

i haven't decided what i think about it. i've been wrong before and inevitably i will be wrong again ..

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i think that being away from ann arbor is good for the health. sometimes it's too much to be in the presence of such mathematical fervor and ambition: at the very least it is too much for me.

as for this past conference in champaign, it was a pleasant break and i met some new colleagues .. even some fellow math grads: thesis students of friends, and who will form the next generation of the C-C space crowd.

having done little/no work in C-C spaces, i'm consistently surprised that the crowd remains so friendly and invites me to these gatherings.

it feels a little like having a dual citizenship, to live in both the quasi-world and the C-C world, with a close-to-expired visa into p-harmonic land. q: