ugh

Another day pissed away fiddling with diagrams instead of tidying up the last bits of writing I want to do. Some writing got done but nowhere near as much as I wanted to. I will finish this damn thing this week so help me…

Confident that the reason I’m struggling to just write this last few bits is the seeming half a dozen different notions of “normal form” — all pretty much the same but with subtle enough differences in some places I’m questioning what the correct “universal” formulation should be. Also feel like having actually correct examples of marked vertex diagrams and banded unlink diagrams is a bottleneck… not confident in what I’ve drawn at the moment.

Told students today to just put something down and then refine later — I should practice what I preach…

My big fear is that I will have spent all this time making diagrams and they’ll turn around and go “mmm nah don’t actually want/need this”.

Feel a blister on the sole of my left foot -__-

駱駝［らくだ］：camel