This month I’ve been home on paternity leave—which is to say I’ve been working my butt of trying to keep things afloat during that effervescent temporal interval known as nap time. I am truly lucky to have the opportunity to spend time with baby Bacon during these precious early days, and right this moment he is smiling giggling and talking to me in a dialect I have yet to decipher. But the dangerous thing about paternity leave and time spent feeding baby is that it gives you time to reflect, which is especially bad on days like today when I’ve received two negative referee reports, and am vastly behind on the huge number of tasks that just don’t disappear because I’m away on paternity leave.
Now, I don’t like to dwell on the negative, and like I said there is much that is great in my life, but I do wonder a little bit about whether I’m doing the right thing with my work life. So to alleviate my negative musing, I’ve been trying to think about the positive things that I’ve been able to achieve and then to think about how I might better
O brave new quantum world!