Back at Brandeis.  My parents thought school started again on Monday, and keeping me home for a few days wasn’t worth buying a new plane ticket.  I got back around 4:30, then proceeded to unpack and clean my room.  I ate dinner at Usdan before wandering around campus for two hours or so.  Has anyone else noticed that we’re infested with ( Read more... )

            Belated though it may be, here is the promised update: On Saturday Bernie and I were going to head to the airport to catch our flights home.  Unfortunately, we misread the schedule and missed the commuter rail.  So we ended up taking a cab anyway.  The rest of the trip passed uneventfully.  I reached DC and met up with my friend Sailee ( Read more... )

            Terribly sorry.  Unintentionally long post.

Have you ever started a simple program of thought, then grown distracted and started thinking of something else, only to have the program continue unconsciously in the back of your mind?  I first noticed I could do this when I started counting steps one day (I am and have always been easily ( Read more... )

      All of you on the Brandeis campus or in the near vicinity, if you read this before 4:30 or so, go outside now. It's gorgeous. We've got warmth, blue skies, birds singing, the smell of spring and summer in the air... It's enough to make one start singing Sinatra music as you walk from building to building. Linger outside, it'll do you good.

            I should really be working right now, but while going through my files to find the appropriate layout for the paper I am writing, I chanced upon a document I did not remember.  This happens fairly often, as I rarely delete things and haven’t yet taken the time to organize all of my text documents by subject, but occasionally I’ll be ( Read more... )