I'm going to ride a century this summer (100 miles on a bike). Then, once I can do that, I will bike to chicago (145 miles-- maybe over 2 days).

how many eyes would a 4-dimensional baby (living in a 4-d world) need to learn to see?

(answer: it depends on whether you assume retinas in this universe are 2-d or 3-d)

snow! snow snow snow. christmas was uneventful (the best kind) and we got home without too much stress (at least on my end) and now there's 4 inches of fresh snow on the ground out here and we brought back my parents' cross country skis, an excellent combination. I brought my cat to my parents place and he really enjoyed christmas, he got so ( Read more... )

my cat is hilarious. we put the cat food in the oven because it's now the one place in the house he can't reach... and he's alternating between scratching at the glass and wailing. heh. serves the little sociopath right.

it was a comedy of errors today ( Read more... )

I accidently ran a subject from somebody else's study today. What can I say... he just showed up...

It's that crunch time in the semester. Somehow a 15-page paper has to emerge from nothingness this weekend. Ooops.

I'm really looking forward to winter break.

 My hair is pink again!  It's not as great and bright a dye job as I've done before since I used one of those "all in one" dyes, but it's still a nice change.  I sort of missed this but at the same time, I also like being taken seriously as a "RL SCINTST" and so on and so forth...I'm not gearing towards a creative career anymore in the same way as ( Read more... )

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Poll

 Things here are so busy but so worth it-- a lot of the time I feel like there's more to do than humanly possible...but instead of regretting it, I feel more and more satisfied with my decision to apply to school last year. (and to go this year...)

I'm working on a project that is very exciting to me.  It has to do with plural agreement and why ( Read more... )