howardtharp:

smalltimegenius:

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Heh. Also applies to Twitter for me. Or Yelp reviews. And the worst: YouTube. Related Videos get you every time.

I am zoning out to some music. I just finished studying.

Got to meet some fellow math geeks. It felt good. It seems like we are such a minority in our research program and in regular life. I try to avoid having the conversation about the merits of pure math vs. applied math; I feel that all of it is useful. There is obvious benefit in being able to realize correlations and norms, but there is a creativity involved with pure math that I love.

I really have to sit down and make a few decisions about my future (career change, future research, etc).

For the weekend, I would love to:

-straighten up the apartment

-eat something that I shouldn’t

-go for a very long walk, maybe browse a bookstore on the way

-go to museum

-snuggle with John

I am a simple girl. Really.

I awoke today and found the living room gloriously sunny. I decided that today would be a perfect day to talk to my research mentor (perfect mostly because sun lifts your mood and eases negotiations, for me at least) and continue efforts to get the ball rolling on this project. The goal is to keep focused, no excuses.

In addition, I have been busy with learning c++, and somehow I find it very comforting. Frustrating and comforting. I appreciate the austerity of the language, as well as its robustness.

As if that wasn’t enough, I have been holding on to this collar for several years now. I am not that into real fur and didn’t know what to do with it (Ok, I am so not into fur, but that is neither here nor there, heh). However, I bought a full length coat with this collar thinking the darn thing was fake when it was real. Anyhow, I plan on making use of it somehow — I don’t want to waste it.