Private Message to Professor Siz and Evelyn

[alt_linus]

I am about to proceed with Kantorowich's Least Worst regressions, and shall be sending completed parchment batches by house elf to you for verification, Evelyn, should that still be convenient. Your help has been invaluable, and I am most grateful.

Professor Siz, Evelyn and I had a conversation yesterday which is tickle-hexing the back of my brain, and as it might conceivably someday have some actual application, it behooves me to make you aware of it. We were indulging in some speculative jocularity regarding methods of dealing with the inconveniently high levels of magical energy remaining in the system, and it was suggested that removing and storing the energy would be ever so convenient. Putting it up in bottles, as it were. If anything comes to mind along those lines, we shall certainly report it to you, but I wanted to tell you now before I forgot, as I have not been in precisely the most linear and retentive frame of mind these past days.

(If it is acceptable to you, Professor Siz, Evelyn and I will confer here under Private Message until the point at which we have anything to report which warrants your full attention. I believe this to be an efficient and convenient method of keeping the discussion in one place, which increases the chance I can find it when I look for it again. My thanks.)

Comments

[alt_sinistra]

Thank you, both, and of course it's perfectly fine to discuss here.

I'll be in and out of various places in the tower today. I'm working on some notes for Septima, mostly, but either of you, please snag me if you want anything.

More meteors tonight, if the weather holds? And I've a few ideas I'd like to run by you tonight or tomorrow, Linus.

[alt_evelyn]

Of course! I'll be around all day. That sounds like just the thing.

[alt_sinistra]

And I have just passed the idea about storing the excess energy along.

I don't know if anything will come of it, but do continue to explore any thoughts about it, to give people a running start if anyone wants to pursue it.

Private Message to Siz

[alt_evelyn]

I realise I've been rather wrapped up in things lately, and that you've been having a difficult time of it.

Apologies.

Is there anything I can do?

Re: Private Message to Siz

[alt_sinistra]

Nothing to apologise for, honestly. (And I've been feeling I've not been as helpful to you or other people as I ought, for that matter, for which I apologise.)

Part of it is that I was throwing myself into the wards work, and it meant I didn't have to think about other things, and now there's space for that, and it all hit me like a bludger. Several bludgers.

The other part is something I ought to have mentioned much earlier, which is that finishing any kind of big project like this, there's often a feeling of let down, like the world dropping out from under your feet.

I rather think it's worse when it's involved both the world literally shifting under one's feet, and the levels of magic we've been around. I'm sure it will make a fascinating research analysis when we're not so bruised by it all.

Anyway. Take time to do things you enjoy, the follow up work on the wards is important, but not nearly as urgent unless we start seeing unexpected results. And I'm trying to do the same. And if you'd like to talk about some entirely not practical projects to spend a little time with, maybe that would be good for both of us. Or some more observing, now we've got the specialised telescopes to play with again.

[alt_linus]

There should be an elf with parchments for you. I do hope the colour-coding survived Duplio with sufficient vividness. The indications for rebalancing into a state of magical stability and, most crucially, the possibility of repeated adjustment or dismantling without catastrophe seem much more favourable here. I shall begin another run immediately.

Temporal components still fiddly.

Watching meteors is oddly soothing. Perhaps we could set everyone to doing it.

[alt_evelyn]

The stress test iterations I went through with Scansell's certainly allow for that, quite reasonably so.

The colours turned out quite well.

As far as the temporal bits go -- I think perhaps tying it in more explicitly with the solstice as well as monthly cycles is required. Sort of a nested approach, if you follow?

We might have an open invitation tonight, if you wouldn't mind some company. I'll post fliers at dinner if you're amenable?

[alt_linus]

Please do.