Monday is gone so quickly. I should start working on the paper. I want to finish the paper this week. I hope I can do another round of updating the manuscript before submitting the paper. Other than that, life is very consistent. Our colleagues started working on the restart plan of doing experiments. I am happy to get back to my office and instrument to perform the experiments but I want to avoid at least by the end of October before I am fully vaccinated.
This morning, I was watching the news from premier talking about the vaccination. It seems it is very hard for those who don’t want the vaccine for COVID-19. Once the lockdown starts easing, a lot of people will be going out. The unvaccinated people will be vulnerable but the message seems to be warnning them like “If they don’t want to be vaccinated, you are your own…” Last Saturday, I was talking to a friend in Sydney, unlike me, he is not going to get vaccinated because he doesn’t want to. But life will be hard for him I believe. I don’t know what happens after lockdown time is over. The only I can do is just doing my part.
We are already mid-September, I started worrying about my visa which expires within the next half year. I will start preparing the documents for the application. I might take longer to get all the documents under the current situation so I should start earlier.
Last week, I found some Facebook comments from my friend. His way of thinking about his career is similar to mine and also we are about the same age. I guess this is a general problem at my age. We already have an established career and we know what to do. So that, we can predict what we could do in next 10 years so, we can see how the professional work life is going to be. When we are young, we had something to work hard for because we are preparing for a future career we don’t know about but after working more than 10 years in the industry, now we have pretty good ideas on how it works. When I was younger, I study hard to learn English because I believed if I can speak English very fluently, I thought I can be more comfortable doing work and enjoy life. But I am not a native English speaker so I can see how hard to get to a native level. I can still make it work. Now we don’t have much incentive on learning English like before. I know there are a lot of improvements I should make but even if I do it by doing very hard work, what will I make out of it?
So what I want is something I can devote. Of course, I can do physics but I spent most of my time in physics last 20 years. the improvement is very slow but I should surely do it. I can’t improve my running much and even if I improve a lot, what would I get? Maybe I start working philosophy again. I was listening to Arthur Schopenhauer this morning. I should start focusing on another intellectual endevour.