friday, friday

the good:
forgot to mention, but yesterday, there was a math journal in my math department mailbox... i was surprised because it wasn't one i have a subscription to... yet i opened it up, and it was the volume containing my 3rd published paper... i bought a subscription to the one with my first article on my own, and the 2nd one is in a journal that costs like $100 per issue, so this was the first time the publisher just sent me a copy for free :-) i was pleased

today is the last pizza seminar i'm in charge of... i've enjoyed it, but i'm glad to hand it over to phil next year; he'll do a good job, and it's nice to know i survived just fine and it's done now

friday tradition: my clock radio goes off at 7:50am... at 7:55am every friday the radio station i have it set to (the NYC christian station) plays "i believe statements"... their motto is "star 99.1 is a reflection of you", so in keeping with that, if you call in before 7:30 on friday and leave a 1 sentence statement starting with "i believe", they splice them together and play them all at 7:55 to "kick off the weekend"... it's kinda a cool idea... anyhow, waking up to that every friday makes me smile :-)

oh! and hitchhikers guide, the movie, comes out today! woohoo!

here's not quite as smiley news:

the annoying: today is rutgersfest... even though classes still go on through monday, today, every undergraduate on earth will pour into a field pretty darn close to the math building and have a huge drinking party all day... last year they got in smashmouth or someone huge like that... i don't recognize any of the acts this year.... i just know they're really loud and make my head hurt and making getting myself to and from school really hard... oi... i'm glad people will have fun, i just wish that it wasn't so close to my building when we're still trying to work.

the sad: this has been on the NYC news all week:
Heartbroken mom lets boy slip away... it was originally suspected that this 13 year old boy had a tooth infection that spread to his brain, causing it to swell and killing him... he died yesterday afternoon... the news says it was something else now, but still losing a 13 year old so suddenly has to be unimaginably tough... i've been hearing about this all week long and i'm kinda sad for the family every time i hear it... i guess prayers for them.

and that's your friday-morning-news-that-lara's-aware-of update. have a good one.