It always hurts to get comments back from reviewers. It hurts even more to get rejected. Just before I came home, I found that the paper I'd submitted (in January) was rejected. And how! One of the reviewers didn't spare in the ink in explaining to me just why in every paragraph s/he could find some reason to reject my paper. Ouch. A couple of drinks later and I can be a bit more philosophical about it.
The department had a reception for a lab dedication today. A student who has become a successful text-book author donated a substantial amount to provide the start-up funding for a new faculty member in the department. The chancellor, the dean, the chair, and most of the faculty attended. It was good to see the beautiful projector I got installed in OEB used to such nice effect.
Yesterday Charlie's class performed a play called "Clowns". It was wonderful. I videotaped their performance in the afternoon and spent some time today learning how to edit the feed from two cameras into a single stream. I've done it before using Final Cut Pro. I got a copy of Final Cut Pro a couple of years ago. Not being a video professional, I found Final Cut Pro to be excessively "pro". It took me a week just to do a simple project: it took two days just to figure out how to set the preferences on a project before you start capturing video. Since then I've mostly used iMovie. But iMovie isn't the right tool for this job. Still, although it's more difficult, it's not impossible, and I've now developed a work flow for working with two streams of data in iMovie.