0utline of a manu$cript (i.e. what little i did today)

i did very little math today. over a bagel and a cup of coffee, i read over a 22+ page manu$cript and decided that i haven't been exactly fair with my thesis work. i guess you could say that it's not exactly trivial.

though i've done my best to write in a smooth, natural manner, the mathematics jumps all over the place:

in one section i bring up standard results from functi0nal ana1ysis, such as weak-$tar c0mpactness;

in another section i summon up several nontrivial facts about re¢tifiable sets in 9e0metric me@$ure theory (on euclidean spaces);

in the third section i wage guerilla warfare with null sets in the plane, with gory, detailed constructions;

then there is another (yet unwritten) section about analysis on metric spaces.

you know, i already feel bad for the poor mathematician who will referee this article, when i'm done with it and submit it somewhere.

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anyways, that's it. the only math i did today was read what i've already written. i didn't even edit any of it .. well, because i didn't have a pen with me.

however, i was mildly productive. i've cleaned out my desk, where i have spent 4 years of my life. it's ready for my successor, now. however, the 3 shelves that i've taken over still need to be sorted out:

what books to keep, what books to give away,
old notes from classes, seminar talks, conferences,
lectures from the last time i taught calculus ii,
all that malarkey.

that stuff is the most difficult of all. i get sentimental easily, and arranging those belongings will take a lot of time.