for some reason i have a very hard time convincing myself to update. however, neither my advisor nor my grad student came in today, and i need to talk to my grad student before i go any farther, so here i am. on the update page ( Read more... )

hokay so.

this has been a semi-roller coaster of a week, ive been bummed and excited and brain dead and totally absorbed as well as other less extreme emotions. i am also jealous of stephen, who arrived at caltech on monday and it sounds like his program is fantastical.

tonight, i saw bus stop, a production of summer circle theatre with a bunch ( Read more... )

bah ( Read more... )

well, here i am in east lansing, mi. i arrived sunday around 330, and settled into my room. sunday evening we had a reception where we met each other and some of our advisors/grad students. my advisor wasnt there (his daughter was graduating from high school), but my grad student was. we chatted, he showed us upstairs, etc. after the reception a ( Read more... )

stephen left yesterday. it was sad, but due to my inability to function like a normal person, we were smiling/laughing even right at the end. we had alot of fun while he was here; we went to this tea store in wintergreen plaza (hes obsessed with tea), we rode the train at wheaton park then wandered around brookside gardens, we went down to the ( Read more... )

hokay so i was kinda lax in my lindner quotes for april. first off, its mid-may and im just now posting them. and i kinda skipped that class (which i wasnt actually in) alot at the end to get stuff done.

( Lindner's Mind in April )

hokay i am the home. my mom arrived at woo yesterday afternoon, while stephen and i were napping in his room. i started to climb out of his lofted bed and came down with a thud. i already told him i wasnt gonna sleep in his room next year if his bed is lofted, and now he has evidence why. silly boy ( Read more... )

last night i dreamed that mike called, while i was with stephen. in my dream i handled it well, answering tersely and not giving him much of a chance to say anything before telling him i couldnt talk and hanging up. it was awkward though, and i am worried about him calling. last summer i didnt call him at all, i left it to him, and he called after ( Read more... )

hokay soulmate.

from my quantum book:
"In a mathematical sense this is all applied group theory--what we are talking about is the decomposition of the direct product of two irreducible representations of the rotation group into a direct sum of irreducible representations (you can quote that, to impress your friends ( Read more... )