Nearing the end

The semester is approaching the end, and none too soon. I'm tired as hell of taking classes and can't wait to get out of here.

Unfortunately I still haven't found a place to live. I haven't been working too hard at it recently, since I've had too much work to finish up.

I still have to do a 2.5 hour (!!!) presentation in geophysical fluid dynamics as my "final exam," which is just crazy. It's on the subject of western boundary current intensification, the name for the fact that the various oceanic gyres are swifter, narrower and deeper on the western boundary of the ocean basins (e.g. the Gulf Stream), and wider, shallower and slower on the eastern side. The physics of why this is so is non-obvious enough that it was totally unexplained until about 1948. Nevertheless, I'm going to have to bring some no-doze for the audience.