Well it's time honoured tradition ( Read more... )

I have officially survived my first year of grad school! And it was a great and terrible thing ( Read more... )

I am so exhausted...it has been days since I have taken a break...I have pulled two all-nighters this week...and have only finished two of the four papers that I have to write...the third is due tomorrow, but I haven't even finished the book I am writing about...and I am not wearing underwear, and don't know if it is because none is clean or ( Read more... )

So, on Friday, I had something happen in class that I had never had happen before...at the end of class, my students applauded me. Now, don't get me wrong - it wasn't like I got a universal standing ovation, so much as about three students just spontaneously started clapping before they were drowned out by everyone quickly packing up their bags ( Read more... )

So, sorry about the long delay in posting (especially when coupled with what Carrie informed me were rather suggestive away messages - and, in point of fact, you were right: the cockroaches taught me how to tapdance and click my heals, and we do the Fred Astair bit regularly...but that wasn't the source of the away message). So, it is now time to ( Read more... )

One: probability is a factor which operates within natural forces ( Read more... )

Did you ever read the works of Shan Yu? ...He fancied himself quite the warrior poet. Wrote volumes on war, torture, the limits of human endurance. ...He said, live with a man forty years, share his house, his meals, speak on every subject, then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day you will finally meet the man ( Read more... )

Ok, so I could post about the beginning of the semester, the classes I am taking, and my crazy general relativity professor who, in our fortyfive minute class, lectured for two hours and fifteen minutes. Alternatively, I could say something about the thirteen hour long conversation I had yesterday. Instead, I am just going to post this link: Read more... )

I think that everyone will agree that it is time to abandon this long, drawn out narrative, in favor of just getting to the punch line. Yes? Last post was boring as hell? I concur. So, now on to the interesting conclusion to this story ( Read more... )

Now, lets see. Where did I leave off? We had the lack of plans, the sushi, and the random girl in the bar. So, I suppose the next logical place would be waking up in my own vomit in a train station in some foreign city, without any money and with the name "Maurice" tattooed on my back side. Good thing this isn't a logical story, now isn't it ( Read more... )