Saturday, February 14, 2009
How things change
Those who knew me in undergrad as that guy who never came to class and played StarCraft all day (or Civ or WarCraft or one of several other games) might find this post surprising, but those who've interacted with me over the last several years (and /or seen the blogging rate drop off) won't be.
Me, I think I'll have to appropriate "work-a-holic force-of-nature" to my sig.
And for a little context to that post, on the day I met with Ashwin, I (in approximate order of completion):
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Me, I think I'll have to appropriate "work-a-holic force-of-nature" to my sig.
And for a little context to that post, on the day I met with Ashwin, I (in approximate order of completion):
- finished up and delivered a 125 page report I had started Monday night (only about 40 pages were brand new as it drew heavily on intermediate reports though getting in all the required formatting was the most time-consuming part)
- put together a 1 hour presentation (but cut down from a previous 2 hour presentation with about 15 minutes of new material)
- reviewed that report and presentation with a sub for about 30 minutes (they didn't write any of it, but while they're a "sub", they're a much much bigger / experienced company and they were willing to give me feedback prior to submission based on an earlier draft).
- had a 40 minute meeting with Ashwin to loosely scope out 3 different proposals,
- had a telecon debrief for an hour with a project sponsor (and some subs)
- met with my business partner for about 15 minutes
- met with another guy at VT to discuss a different set of proposals and general interactions with a funding agency,
- met with the PI on a project CRT is funding at VT to clear up some contracting paper work (more accurately VT is a sub to CRT on a project)
- and got a quote from VTIP on officially licensing back some of my IP
- then some other random phone calls while I was driving (e.g. setting up the schedule for a trip next week)
Of course, other stuff was also done (like dropping in on Thason, driving for 3 hours and shopping some). But that day started at 5:00 AM and finished by 8:00 PM, which is a bit lax as I could've gotten some more stuff done (patents to file, papers to write / review) before I went to sleep at 11:00.
Labels: CRT, Virginia Tech
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