how to get Sara out of bed before 9am

[aryanhwy]

Announce a library booksale starting at 9:30.

I checked in advance and they were only going to be accepting cash so I had to get up early enough this morning to swing by the ATM; I didn't know if this would be the "sell books at close to cost" or "sell books for a pittance" type of booksale, so I had to budget for the former. Luckily, it turned out to be the latter -- at 1EUR a piece, I could pick up anything that looked like it might be vaguely interesting, and came away with 22 books. A lot of them are old Ph.D. dissertations on game theory related topics which I thought there was a chance Joel might find useful so I got them. I got a few things for myself -- The Boole-DeMorgan correspondence, Bibliography and research manual of the history of mathematics, and some general philosophy of language/math/science books. Nothing too outstanding, but still worth getting up before the sun had wholly risen.

Comments

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Mm. You once posted something along the lines of "OMG!! I woke up at 7 a.m.!! Fortunately I managed to get back to sleep again." And all I could do was gaze at the screen in incredulity.

I mean, yes, I have to get up early because I chose to hang the millstone of two children around my neck, but there's also my job. I'm lecturing at 8 most days. *And* you get papers published. Hrumph.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

I get papers published because I have nothing to do except spend all day in the office doing research and all evening at home doing heraldic stuff. I'm incredibly lucky in that doing my job (the bliss of being paid to do research full-time is still something I'm marveling at) also coincides with spending time with my husband; his desk is just on the other side of the office. And when I'm wrapped up in my heraldic stuff in the evenings, he's wrapped up in his programming stuff, but our computers are an arms' reach away.

I know that when we do finally have children, I'll have to get out of habit of keeping college-student hours (going to bed between midnight and 1am, stumbling out of bed bleary-eyed between 9:30 and 10:00), but I am hoping that we can plan things so that I don't have a full teaching load (or only afternoon/evening classes) when children start to arrive, so that at least for a few years (until they go to school) we can keep them on our schedule. Because otherwise, I have to confess I'm terribly afraid that turning in to a morning person for the sake of children is going to turn me into a monster.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

:D. I teach full year, first year courses, key curriculum courses. They are, at my university at least, always morning classes with afternoon tutorials. Only at honours level and the like, with small, less constrained students, can the lecturers pick and choose their teaching times. More fool me for choosing such a silly career! :D Medieval logic is much sexier than calculus (well, actually ... but that's a different conversation) so perhaps you'll have control over your teaching times. Good luck with that!

And hey, sometimes monsters are cool, viz Monsters Inc.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Medieval logic is awfully sexy. :)

What I'm really hoping is that for the next 5 years or so, I'll continue to have primarily research appointments, which teaching responsibilities only if I want them, in which case I have some influence on both what and when. Then by the time I'm settled in a position which involves more teaching than research (which is where I eventually hope to be), the kids (whose existence is still theoretical at this point, so this is all speculation) will be close to reaching school age, at which time I'd have to get up in the morning to see them off anyway.