Eating has sometimes carried to me new heights of what most would consider good or interesting. My diet certainly doesn't appeal to my 15-year-old sister who survives on a strict diet of mustard sandwiches, fried chicken, and french fries with the occasional steak or milkshake thrown in for good measure. Mathematics graduate student that I am, it ( Read more... )

On the highway on my way to the gym, a man dashed in front of my car carrying a package, and I noticed his van on the other side of the median--stopped with door wide open and blinker on. He set down the package on the side of the road, turned around, and threw up his arms as if to say, "Victorious!" That package turned out to be an enormous ( Read more... )

Attended my favorite wedding ever this weekend. It was the wedding of two of my mathematical siblings (students of my Ph.D. advisor), and out of the 5 weddings I've attended in my entire life, this one was without a doubt the best. But the way it began was pretty terrible. At least for me. The previous evening, I was up all night, wallowing in ( Read more... )

This morning I got a very emotional Facebook message from my ex-boyfriend's sister saying how she thinks of me as a sister and will miss me very much, recalling some of the things we went through together with her tough pregnancy - how I helped wash her hair and read to her when she couldn't move. She then signed this message "Love, Amanda" ( Read more... )

: Can you explain how the late fees and interest were calculated? It say my account is only 6 days overdue.
Layla: You receive a late fee if your payment is not made before 5:00 p.m. est. on your due date. Your interest is calculated by your APR daily.
: What is my daily APR? Can you write out the calculations given my actual balances?
Layla: You can ( Read more... )

( My fire door got a kick out of this! )

Coming home from Aunt Doris' house with my father the day after Christmas, the sky was filled with a cloud bank that stretched all the way to the horizon--big, blue clouds, so dark and solid, they looked like mountains. I remember dreaming about living in the mountains when I was a little girl and pretending on days like these that the clouds ( Read more... )

Errands, errands. Just your normal day of errands. Except this day I ran into someone rather spectacular. The singular part was that he was only about eight years old ( Read more... )

During the middle of my extremely hectic day today, I called my voice mail to check my messages. I was expecting a call from the dealership where I'm buying a car. Instead of a message about the hole I'm buying to continually throw money into, I hear the voice of a woman I'm currently tutoring in finite math--Tami. She said she thought I should ( Read more... )