* to campus, to chat briefly with one of the REU staff people about some stuff for next week
* to scott's house... even though he lives just a couple miles down the road and is totally in NJ this summer we hadn't crossed paths in a month... so today we had lunch together to remedy that... after we got back to his house again, he read me a book, and before i left, he wrote himself the following note:
the "stupid boy" part, written from scott, to scott is what cracked me up :-P
* from scott's house to goodyear... i was due for an oilchange as i've gone 4000 miles in the past 3 months and i wouldn't get another chance for it until late august... there was a really bad 3 car wreck on the way there that slowed me down, but i made it reasonably on time... now i'm good for another 3 months...
* knowing i wouldn't have time to go my whole usual 5 mile route during daylight hours, i took the one hour of "free time" i did have, and walked 3 miles... got home and had to clean up good (2nd shower of the day) for the next two stops
* to campus again... to meet the caterer and let them in for the REU pizza party tonight... i had planned a pizza/boardgame night a month and a half ago, before i had any clue about anything else going on... since i found out about my next stop 2 weeks ago, i convinced eric he wanted to come for the night too and hang out with the students while i was out... once things we're rolling on swimmingly there, it was off to...
* pick up paul and go to church... tonight was the "worship service for the call"... it was an intriguing hybrid of church service and congregational meeting, but it was definitinely enough of the first to not be called just a meeting... the pastor who is the circuit counselor for the local circuit that includes my church presided and led the prayers, etc., and gave a good homily on what it means to be chosen, emphasizing that even though there's this whole "process" and lots of rules an bylaws to follow, it's our belief and our prayer that our actions are not just our own selfish ones but ruled by God, and that He's the one doing the calling, not our actions and desires... the congregation president explained a lot of things too, reviewing the call process and how we've gotten to where we are... then, we voted by paper ballot and while the call committee went out to count them we sang hymns :-P... when they came back, it turned out to be a unanimous vote, and the congregation president left the service at the end, beelined for the office to call the pastor we've decided to call and let him know that the call papers will be in the mail tomorrow. he still is supposed to prayerfully consider them and can decide yes or no, but the general vibe everyone who's been in contact with him has had is that there's a lot of excitement on both sides of the deal and that it is looking favorable for him to come here. :-) anyhow, it was an exciting night at my church :-) after that...
* back to campus, surprised that game night was still going, i showed up to discover eric and 7 of the students playing a crazy czech card game... eric had mostly cleaned up and he and 4 of the other students left, but 3 stayed around to talk math and i listened for awhile, on rare occasion adding something to the dialogue... another student came back, and i was there for an hour and a half before i left them talking amongst themselves still...
humourous quote..
khanh is explaining the "monty hall problem" to marek... there are three doors and behind one is a car and behind two are goats...
marek, didn't understand the word goat at first, and made a motion for guillotine, and looked surprised.
jan (another of the czech students) laughed and picked the right czech word, commenting "marek really likes goats, maybe you really should tell him there's a guillotine behind the other doors instead".
* after listening to them, and getting phone calls from 5 different people intermitently throughout the math chat, i finally excused myself to go... who knows how late they all stayed!... anyhow, i went home, and having only walked 3 miles earlier in the day, i put my walking shoes back on and went out for 3 more miles at 11:30pm...
* got back in around 12:15, showered (for the 3rd time today :P), and now am sitting here typing away..... that's 13 hours of running around straight today!
can't believe that in exactly a week from now, i'll be in a plane over the atlantic ocean... it's been so long since europe, i can't wait to be back
at any rate, cheers for long but quality days?
later dudes...
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