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.every big company should have a mathematician on staff. .in fact, i dare you to think of any type of national company that doesn’t need a few mathematicians. .just keep ’em in a box with some paper and pencils and haul ’em out every once in a while when you’ve got a tough problem. .sort of “bring out the gimp”-esque. .on a related note, i’ve always wanted to develop a crush on a barista. .something nice and cliché. .we’d have a drink instead of a song: a good darjeeling or earl grey or or even hot apple cider when it was in season. .the relationship would develop slowly but pleasantly, and we’d grow genuinely fond of each other. .we’d see and critique movies and evaluate other people’s senses of fashion with no care in the world for our own. .it’d last for about a year and a half until she broke up with me for some artistically minded person who actually drank coffee and knew the difference between emo and crap. .i’d be heart broken and desolute [sic] for months until i realized she’d stolen my green lantern shirt. .then i’d be pissed. .yeah. .that’s the life.

.there is a stairway outside behind my office. .it leads down a flight or two to the back exits of the lecture halls in noyes. .i’ve been in this office for six months or so and had no idea it was there. .seems an interesting place. .might do some late night reading there in the summer. .greg, who is a baby and won’t write his own website but will hopefully guest lecture here, and i went to burger continental for the special. .over a pitcher of guinness, we decided that we were going to hang out with charlie kaufman sometime. .maybe invite him to amigo’s. .hang out at his place. ?who knows? .we figure he’s a pretty coolguy and can probably appreciate the various wierdnesses of caltech students. .we’re gonna write him a letter.

.updated the site, a few new pics. .got online and talked to bengis, neeks and haskell. …hm… .need more text to get the formatting right. .let’s see. .sompaa v. fumpaa update: still in preplanning. .i’ve never played whack-a-mole. .i’m sure of had more musings, but i never remember them, so the list never changes. .i wonder if i inspireed kate’s rant on capitalization. .everyone should check out the nascient offyellowpaper. .i need a domain name. .ah yes, i forgot to tell everyone that i’m trying out a web stats service. .you might be getting a cookie or two, let me know if this is heinous.

.greg has a new baby (a shiny new powerbook). .paul.za told me he generally uses the mouse left-handed (though he is arighty). .so i’m trying it out now.

.i did absolutely nothing yesterday, in stark constrast with the previous few days. .played an ass-load of milles bornes with ariele and michelle. .ended up drinking very tasty mojitos that greg made. .today… i don’t remember. .i’ll get back to you on that one.

.i don’t think i did much of anything besides see eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. .a very good movie with only one quibble [spoiler]. .met heather’s sister robin who is in town for the weekend. .got a call from my parent’s saying, among other things, that my aunt did not get her kidney transplant as scheduled yesterday because of heart complications. .what’s worse, is that she’s temporarily off the list. .hope everything works out soon. .more amigo’s, first with greg and heidi, then with bonnie, (her) brian, and teresa.

.ch1 grading. .i had a fairly straightforward problem, so it wasn’t too bad – even slightly hungover. .and yes, one can make one’s excrement change color by drinking a sufficient amount of colored beer.

.recess, candy and anal sex. .and the chimay blow torch.

.right then. .almost two weeks (really i should say more than two weeks since i’m actually writing this on the 22nd). .all done as of today. .with my own school work that is. .i’ve turned in the quantum and the qc, and done the stat mech. .feels good. .to celebrate, i went out on the town with jeff’s mom and brother (judy.tx and jeremy.tx). .dinner at chandra and margaritas at amigo’s. .jeff’s mom is pretty awesome and his brother plays a mean ax. .afterwards, jeff dropped his mom off at the hotel and ace, jeremy, ariele, bert, jeff and i went to jeff’s place and drank homebrew green beer in honor of st. patty’s. .and by a”homebrew”, i mean coors light and green food coloring. .no, i did not play balls.

And no, that’s a broken bottle (from Jeff)