I'm back from a conference, Germany and visiting my brother. It was pretty exhausting, what with my sleep patterns not being particularly compatible with 9am starts. It was also pretty wearing for all the usual social reasons. In part, other mathematicians seem to find me intimidating as a person; wearing a Rob Zombie t-shirt gets the kind of ( Read more... )

I just ate with a bunch of math geeks who decided to leave the essentially empty restaurant we went to for lunch and eat instead at the crowded student place at which we queued for 45mins....so that we could save 1 pound. I know I am feeling highly irritable, but this just seemed wierd. I guess it wasn't helped by long conversations with the ( Read more... )

Some of my warcraft guildies think it is wierd to make a character of one gender, when you are in fact another. I'm not sure if gender boundaries are being policed really, but I do know that I tend to make an awful lot of female characters in these silly games. Actually, when I played Guild Wars, the mechanics meant that I made a new (temporary) ( Read more... )

Your Score: Daedalus

66% Extroversion, 86% Intuition, 27% Emotiveness, 71% Perceptiveness


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So my dentistry fears were pretty justified, I think. I mean, there was no real pain (nothing worth writing about) and the dentist was pretty good in being attentive to my level of comfort and trying to reassure me in many ways like hiding the needle when pointing toward my mouth. But it was still awful....root canal is just a nasty, cringemaking ( Read more... )

Clare's flight has been delayed 10 hours! No sleep and staying in horrible Girona is pretty bad.

House MD. Its great, especially with Hugh Laurie being a quintessential american. Anyway, I was watching it and suddenly I got this flash of familiarity...House MD is just an updated version of Sherlock Holmes, isn't it? Its just obvious, from the irritable genius who lacks social graces, gets bored too easily and is an addict, to the clever but ( Read more... )

Today I am here.


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The other day I lost a filling and half a tooth, which was pretty distressing. Today I went to the dentist and the good news is that they can save my tooth. The bad news is that it will cost half a months salary and that it involves many visits to the dentist to get root canal surgery. I am terrified of the dentist and I was hugely anxious about ( Read more... )

Your Score: Joan Crawford

You scored 90% grit, 4% wit, 9% flair, and 7% class!


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