last night i did math with napoleon. we worked until about 11 pm, then decided we were going to go outside in the frozen night and frolic. i put on my trenchcoat and napoleon put on his. i took out a coin from my pocket, napoleon flipped. heads left tails right. we went right, then left, then right. when we arrived at an intersection i taught ( Read more... )

damn, this is the most exciting math I've done since 5th grade. I took algebra last year and we barely did anything exciting, well at least when we were defining groups and rings and modules etc. Maybe there were a few exciting things from algebra 1 I remember-- like you can check whether a polynomial is irreducible by modding the coefficient field ( Read more... )

i'll buy it from you. sexy, sexy, sexy!

I'm old enough to have realized that life is not a game anymore. It's not clear cut; there are no stated rules- only implicit ones- and these rules are always changing ( Read more... )

sometimes I feel like the world is unreal. that is when I can sit in my bed for hours without moving. it is when everything I touch and hear and see is blurred, like in a dream or a sokurov film.

I don't know if this is abnormal.

Never in my life had I believed in hell, but I no longer believe in heaven either. People are always talking about utopia, a better place, paradise, godliness, etc. but you know what I think heaven is? The same as earth, only you have a clarity you never had before. I mean, you can see things for what they are. You can watch your mother dying and ( Read more... )

does this make me want to buy louis vuitton?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJCwi15rEBM

HELL YEAH

I would love to find a boyfriend who listened to the same sort of music I listened to growing up. Alas, this makes me a sucker for men who can communicate with me through music (yeah, I still remember fondly from time to time the bastard who liked my favorite playlist as much as I did). When I have my own house the first thing I'll do is set up a ( Read more... )

there's a gym by the law school called hemenway, and it's got exercise machines with tv's attached to them. (this is because many students here are inhumanly efficient and like to multitask. I learned from my freshman year roommate how to read & treadmill/bike at the same time, and while this is not something you want to do to study for a final, it ( Read more... )

1. Some rich Cambridge book shop owner had Borge's original manuscripts ( Read more... )