 Good video got it time being a time. I'm we are on time. In fact, we were early until we're late Today I'm celebrating just a little bit the completion of a paper draft that I started Two years ago when I first applied for this job about three years ago I mapped out three projects that I wanted to work on The sort of built on each other the first was I wanted to find every flare in the Kepler database that we could possibly find and that took me about a year the second was to take all the flares from this catalog and Determine how the rate of these events change as stars age So we're gonna look at old stars and young stars to compare how the rate of these flares evolves over time And that's the paper that I just finished Well, I just finished a draft of and now I've sent it to my co-authors But it's a major milestone and it means for downhill from here publication. Hopefully in the next month or so The third paper was using that model of how the flare rate evolves make predictions about how many flares We should see in missions like LSS T Like for this this telescope and you might say like wait a minute Is aren't you in your third year aren't you finishing this postdoc and you've only written two papers? I've actually written several more the nice thing about this job is you can kind of go where you can follow your nose And go where the exciting things are so in the meanwhile, I've written papers about rotation and star spots and And things like tabby star and boyage and star I was able to map out the big picture of things that I wanted to work on and at the same time have the freedom and the support to do related projects That came up and they were unexpected But the truth of the matter is my goal was to get this paper done at the end of year two And now we're halfway through year three. So that's why we're 11 months behind schedule In the scheme of things that's not too bad brutally honest truth is this paper took a long time Not because it was especially technically difficult or that it was that hard to write In fact, I really enjoyed writing it and I spent a lot of quality time in the last couple months Putting some good words down that I'm pretty happy with the biggest hurdle was my own head like I got completely in my own head about it and it became this self-perpetuating cycle of being behind schedule and missing deadlines that I would set and Hopes that I would have for getting this project done or meet some certain goal I made a really good push to have this paper done before double s and it didn't happen It's very hard to force science to fit into a timeline Which is why I've really valued this job as a postdoc as part of this self-perpetuating Anxiety about this project. It also shuts down my ability. This is for me It shuts down my ability to work on other projects And so I've got a paper draft that I started six months ago with my friend Brett Morris And I haven't felt like I could write that I haven't felt like I could contribute to that because I have this big thing Hanging over my head that I promised myself and other people I'd get done so for the rest of the week I'm gonna chip away on the other projects that I've been dying to work on and I wanted to make sure I got a vlog in I figured today would be a great day to shoot a vlog because today They're going to commemorate or open the new bell tower they built at UW So yesterday I read the entire instruction pamphlet that came with this lens Because I was so excited to play with it The entire manual one page and in the limited instructions it said do not Get this lens wet So of course it's raining Okay, we barely made it. I think I lost Danielle back there. She's taking pictures We made it to the first ringing of the something something bells It's shocking revelation Daniela has not been into Suzlo library and the rain hasn't bedded enough We're going to scurry across red square and I'm going to show her the Harry Potter room keeping in our theme of these bells