3 reasons it's useful to have a brother around

* when they visit, brothers notice things that are wrong with your house and set themselves to fix them (e.g. our bathroom sink had been draining slowly for awhile and we didn't care enough to do more than pour drano down it... brother made a hook out of wire and fished crap out of the sink until it worked normally again... not because i asked him, or because we noticed that that would do the job on our own because neither is true... he just did it on his own)

* when they visit, brothers do other nice things that don't need to be fixed... but just that they feel like doing (e.g. brother brought me a 13 inch color tv and put a splitter on the cord into my cable modem so that i have cable in my room too just like in the other rooms... he also gave me his old dvd player too... before today i had a VCR and a 4 inch black and white TV that picked up no channels whatsoever... now i have VCR, DVD player, and a color TV that picks up all the channels the rest of the house does... just because my brother is super nice)

* when brothers visit, it's a perfect excuse to not do your own work and spend your office hours playing cards on the floor of the office (given: this wouldn't have worked if it weren't the case that my students just had a test on friday and none of them came in, but it was an excuse to not be doing math)

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that sums up most of my day... in non-brother news, i had an excellent meeting with my advisor today too -- i had a productive time on the train to new york yesterday and we talked for most an hour about what i figured out... it was quality. tomorrow is teach all morning, then freedom til next monday. how yay is that?

night y'all.