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i like to fall asleep thinking about all of the things i don't take time to think about during the day. last night i kicked my blankets with glee and let out a little giggle of happiness over mathematical discoveries/understandings. among the things i've been thinking about lately:
- division is actually multiplication
- fractions, chicken cutlets, and understanding that numbers are relationships (you can't work with 3/4 of a chicken if you don't think about the whole chicken first)
- 600 ·/· 4 ·/· 6 ·/· 3 ·/· 2 is the same as 600 ·/· (4·6·3·2) or 600 ·/· 144
- multiplying and dividing fractions is easy and beautiful once you think about it the right way
i want to build furniture when i get back to the states. i fell asleep with all these little ideas in my mind about bookshelves and chairs, and that little rocking chair in "while you were sleeping" in the back of the truck and sandra bullock sitting in it... thinking up which tools to buy first and how amazing it will be to have a peaceful little garage workshop where i do everything by hand -- remembering my sister's exboyfriend watching the woodwright's shop every saturday, being obsessed with it and me just thinking he was strange. now i imagine myself planing and sanding and creating things from old trees that become precious gifts for holding people and books and candles and meals... i'm thinking my first acquisition will be a saw and a couple of horses.
enjoying home-brewed organic/fairtrade coffee, thank god for leclerc deciding to carry fairtrade products. feeling caffeine hit me suddenly and losing my patient, calm voice and state of mind...my fingers tap a little faster on the keyboard...
papahood's and
paramatma's journals and words and pictures and art inspiring me to seek out more art supplies this weekend. getting paid for march and for the first time remembering the important things i could be using my money and time to do... want to make prints and draw inky pictures and meditate on the way a line moves across a page. my mind getting the better of me lately, soul calling out for more activity...
cds to burn and packages to mail, monday a busy day and looking forward to feeling like something's been accomplished (although staying home on cloudy days feels good too).
peace.
- division is actually multiplication
- fractions, chicken cutlets, and understanding that numbers are relationships (you can't work with 3/4 of a chicken if you don't think about the whole chicken first)
- 600 ·/· 4 ·/· 6 ·/· 3 ·/· 2 is the same as 600 ·/· (4·6·3·2) or 600 ·/· 144
- multiplying and dividing fractions is easy and beautiful once you think about it the right way
i want to build furniture when i get back to the states. i fell asleep with all these little ideas in my mind about bookshelves and chairs, and that little rocking chair in "while you were sleeping" in the back of the truck and sandra bullock sitting in it... thinking up which tools to buy first and how amazing it will be to have a peaceful little garage workshop where i do everything by hand -- remembering my sister's exboyfriend watching the woodwright's shop every saturday, being obsessed with it and me just thinking he was strange. now i imagine myself planing and sanding and creating things from old trees that become precious gifts for holding people and books and candles and meals... i'm thinking my first acquisition will be a saw and a couple of horses.
enjoying home-brewed organic/fairtrade coffee, thank god for leclerc deciding to carry fairtrade products. feeling caffeine hit me suddenly and losing my patient, calm voice and state of mind...my fingers tap a little faster on the keyboard...
papahood's and
paramatma's journals and words and pictures and art inspiring me to seek out more art supplies this weekend. getting paid for march and for the first time remembering the important things i could be using my money and time to do... want to make prints and draw inky pictures and meditate on the way a line moves across a page. my mind getting the better of me lately, soul calling out for more activity...
cds to burn and packages to mail, monday a busy day and looking forward to feeling like something's been accomplished (although staying home on cloudy days feels good too).
peace.