movies... and lots of work

oi... for having a nice calm morning, my day got busy

self observation: i way overuse "oi" a lot lately... mostly in speech, but it's starting to carry over into typing too :-P

back to the plot... i read until my roommates were gone this morning, took my time getting ready, then started in on homework.

as you may or may not recall, i have an advisor since november... this semester i'm in his regular course with like a dozen other students, and i'm taking a reading course with him.

now with this reading course... we met before christmas break to discuss my first project for it... my prof realized i had the qual to worry about and that i wouldn't be starting anything until after that... however we didn't meet last week so i didn't really start anything then either... today, knowing that our first meeting is tomorrow and i've had a bit of time to get started, i feel like i should have a lot to show for it... but i just started this afternoon... major oops. i've generated a lot of data and have some ideas of what would be most profitable to attack first as far as generating proofs, but yeah... lots of data, no theory/proofs to show tomorrow... oh well... it's just the first week, right?

apparently trevor (eric's roommate last year who decided instead of taking the qual and going to grad school two years in a row to move to india and teach math there for a year) had a reading class with my advisor last year... he'd come in with half done stuff and the prof would praise him for what he had done rather than chewing him out for what he hadn't... i was discussing this with ben, and he commented how for him personally, he needs an advisor who will chew him out and give him crap if he's not working hard enough... we came to the conclusion that i'm hard enough on myself to make up for that so it's probably good that my potential advisor is always so positive! :-P

in the meantime, lots of time to be spent playing with maple and with the online encyclopedia of integer sequences... aren't you jealous?

tonight, since ben had last minute other things going on last weekend, and skipped our usual friday night go to see a movie at the theater ritual, we went and saw one tonight instead... coach carter... it was really good. samuel l. jackson played a tough high school basketball coach who took over as head coach at his old high school, where the team had (1) a horrible record, and (2) were failing lots of their classes... it was one of those "real life story, teaching kids respect" kind of stories, of which there are many, but it was worth watching. it was well put together and the characters were real... i enjoyed it.

the theater was playing the movie in several theaters at staggered times (i.e. we saw the 7:35 show that got out at 10ish, but there was also like an 8:20 showing in a theater across the hall)... anywho, this couple of kids come in around 8:30 (a little late for the one across the hall... nearly halfway through ours), sit down, apparently know they're running late, but somehow didn't realize they came in halfway through(?!?!?) and stayed in our movie until it was done... how can people not realize things like that?!?!... ben and i were amused :-P

tomorrow will be a busy day... not bad busy, just several more places to be than a usual day... class at 11:30, reading class at 2:15, and since i now technically have an advisor, i figure i should be going to the seminar he organizes, which is at 4:30 tomorrow... after that, eric, colleen, me, and some of colleen's catholic center friends see "the marriage of figaro", so at least it ends fun :-P

i'm done rambling, really, i am... just killing time while my sequences run in maple... oh boy :-P

night y'all... and happy thursday?