at the start of the semester, fridays were my "day off"... now, check this out:
on the agenda today...
* breakfast
* tutor
* finish editing the paper i agreed to referee two months ago
* pizza seminar
* extra office hours
* book seminar rooms for the REU this summer
* figure out which math department secretaries i need to get to be friends with to get a free plane ticket to madison next month
* grade 76 calc 3 workshops
* write a quiz for my students for next week
* walk/jog 5 miles
* dinner
what does it say that this has become my "typical" day?
besides that, colleen is home in minnesota for the weekend, and leigh is going on a roadtrip to canada with sam, john, and paul, so starting in about 6 hours i'm home alone for the weekend.
with eric having a girlfriend and being really into the computer program he's been trying to write for awhile, and ben in delaware as usual, this means the only prospect of social interaction this weekend is church.
i did just leave out one of the usual suspects: scott and i did pinky swear last sunday that our sunday afternoon plans from here on out should be to study at panera for half the afternoon once i get back from church each week, but that's more math.
seriously, i'm a math machine and that's about it. (not complaining, just describing). apparently telling calculus jokes to students during office hours is my version of having fun.
heh.
the end.
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About Me
- lara =)
- i just finished my ph.d. in math. i'm usually studying, but easily distracted by stars, chances to play with my digital camera, and roadtrips.
super exciting upcoming events!
- san antonio, texas: june 2008
- new zealand!: june 2008
- moving to indiana!: july 2008
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- mental floss magazine, may/june 2008 issue
- A Certain Ambiguity by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal
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- strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor. ~albert einstein
- Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. ~Albert Einstein
- when i was young, i forgot to laugh. later when i opened my eyes and saw reality i began to laugh and haven't stopped since. ~soren kierkegaard
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2 comments:
What are you doing in Madison?
this: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~gscc06/
dr. z. is the keynote speaker, so it should be fun.
aek (another student with the same advisor as me) and me both wanted to go, but i was waiting to hear if i got funding for iceland from outside sources first. (i don't want to ask dr. z. for more money if he's already paying for iceland too.)
aek is brilliant and convinced dr. z. to pay for our plane tickets yesterday, but that's just in theory... we still had to do all the paperwork to make it happen.
anyhow, we won... we made friends with the proper secretary and now have tickets. :)
...and aek was an undergrad at madison, so i'll stay with him and his old undergrad roommate for free room and board.
so free trip for a weekend to wisconsin to do math, how much fun is that?
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