it's been a week in montreal, living in a dormitory while attending a summer (research) school.

i miss having a kitchen and my own bathroom, having to hike for 10 minutes before reaching some source of decent coffee. i don't often cook anything elaborate, but the simple dishes --- like making eggs or a sandwich or stir-fry kale --- are what i ( Read more... )

well, it had to happen .. sooner or later:

LABELS:
(? = means not fully planned yet)

orange = helsinki
light red = w.v. (?)
dark red = d.c.
violet = n. cali. (?)
dark cyan = n.y.
green = montreal

black = home, packing.

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admittedly, moments of my life would be less complicated if i didn't like chicken wings.

at a bar close to my apartment, i was drinking a local brew, finishing an order of chicken wings, and thinking about what to do with my life [1]. as is my custom, i took out a sheet of paper and thought up a list of things i could do in these few months ..

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if i move my shoulders the right way, i'll remember that my back muscles actually ache a little. it's no great thing, nothing that will cripple me temporarily or otherwise. it's like poking at scabs before they turn to scars .. little jabs of innocent pain, testing the boundaries, nothing more ( Read more... )

it would be an interesting creative project, to write myths (in the style of ovid) but about modern notions and confusions.

[added: 3 may]never mind. that sounds like a bad idea, the sort of bad idea you get when it's the end of the semester and you need a term paper/project for your senior english lit seminar ( Read more... )

you know, apart from my job, i don't really wonder anymore. there seems no available time or effort. when i'm not busy, i worry about being busy later ( Read more... )

it's been my intention to flesh out these recent TxtLJ posts into more substantial entries. part of the reason is counter-cultural vanity:

they just look like tweets on twitter,
and that whole phenomenon makes me uneasy.

(maybe i'm just not that witty, in 140 chars or less.)

however, mental laziness trumps vanity, each time. this extends to ( Read more... )

mornings are best for mathematical brainstorming ..
at least since i gave up drinking regular coffee after 8pm.

after 8 it becomes ..

.. decaf.


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currently i am in a sweetwaters cafe, on N. 5th Ave & Detroit St. the amtrak train (supposedly) arrives at 12:56pm and will proceed to chicago. this is leg #1 of my travels.

grey_ghost's itineraries:
9-12 June: Chicago - Real Analysis Symposium XXIII
13-16 June: Palo Alto - sister's graduation
17-20 June: Las Vegas - tourism, nostalgia

this sweetwaters ( Read more... )

today is a day between conferences. i will spend it working on final but important thesis things as to make the rackham thesis submission deadlines.

may 27th, 5pm: that will be when my life is, once more, my own .. or perhaps earlier. no matter. it is as good of a deadline as another.

during this last conference i met with old friends, some of ( Read more... )