I've moved! Once my apartment is all set up, I'll consider posting photos. Possibly best next week. Best part? My girlfriend is here, staying with me for August. I win at life.

Ok, so I know I haven't posted here in awhile. I'm finishing up two weeks at a math workshop, which was essentially more work than a full semester course crammed into two weeks. But it was good. Now I'm looking forward to going home though. Tomorrow's the last day, and then I get on a plane Saturday morning ( Read more... )

Ok, I've arrived at the MSRI for the workshop. It hasn't really started yet, but I'll keep everyone updated on it ( Read more... )

Ok, I've held off on this until I cooled off enough to not just post a string of profanities ( Read more... )

I hate Travelocity and Continental. They can **** ** ****.

This confuses me. It SEEMS like Fox News LIKED "Sicko"...what?

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,273875,00.html

And now it's time for weekend update.

Friday: Celia and I went to the Met. We were expecting to see an opera, Massenet's Manon, but instead saw a ballet (same writer, same name). It was spectacular.

Saturday: Got a bit of math done.

Sunday: Father's day. Celia got to meet the rest of my family. These people are exhausting...

This week has been a bit...insane. First off, I moved back to school on Monday to start my research project. For reasons that I'll be explaining soon, I'm just beginning to start through the background reading ( Read more... )

Yeah...no way that I'm actually going to bother with the stuff I said I was going to do last time. I'm full of shit. Whatever ( Read more... )

First thing's first, I have my bassoon back, and I am extremely happy!

Next up, in addition to rambling about what's going on in my life, I'm going to begin incorporating book reviews and essays into this Livejournal. The first few things I have in mind are reviews of The Trouble With Physics by Lee Smolin, Wittgenstein's Poker by David Edmons ( Read more... )