I have nearly finished transcribing, commenting, and (when necessary) correcting those institute materials. It's a goddamned test of character if anything else. It also showed the author as making annoying, silent assumptions or subtle-but-meaningful changes to notation. One situation made me question the utility of it in the first place: it wasn't clear from neither formulae nor context if the mass in question was effective or not. Why does it matter? Well, using a Star Trek-like analogy...

this is a pizza:

and this is effectively a pizza:

In reality, depending on the material you're working on, it could probably account for even as much as six orders of magnitude worth of discrepancy between theory and measurement.

TAing assignments are in: classical mechanics, and mathematical methods workshop -- both done almost entirely remotely. Not gonna lie, CM is one of my all-time favourite courses, so even if unexpected, that's some damn good news to get it.

After another "I know we all want to play but let's shoot shit for the next three hours instead" of an RPG session, I started looking for people online. Thirty hours later I had more than a full complement of players and was knee-deep in drama after opting to let a furry with a great backstory stay and reject some cookie-cutter rogue instead. So, either way, I'm not playing this weekend. Dunno why I keep trying. It's fun, but too rarely survives interfacing with reality for me to put nearly as much effort as I do.