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Name: Tiff
Interests: Carpe Diem.
Expertise: Aimlessly living.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Mathematician wannabie
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10/21/2003
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| I should write more considering how packed my days are nowadays, sorta.
Today it snowed for the first time this fall season. It reminded me of a text sent to me by a Belgian that made me smile a lot last winter that was something along the lines of:
"It snowed for the first time in Brussels in a long time today. My roommate and I walked in the park and found a dead squirrel in the snow. We tried to revive it by throwing it into [the frozen] lake and singing the US national anthem. It didn't work though and it was still dead when we left."
At the time I was at the Ice Hotel in Sweden. Man, I can't wait for winter vacation, I hope I can make it over the pond again.
Speaking of over the pond, the current plan for now is that I will make it over to Belgium for grad school. If for some reason I fall in love with math (which I sort of am, although moreso computer science lately) and do an amazing master's thesis... maybe PhD? I don't understand how people can dedicate at least 7 or 8 years of their life to studying math and then the rest of their lives. I can understand why it's more males who do it than females though.
As for my everyday life (for the 1 or 2 of you that care), my days have turned into this:
Mondays: Wake up, feed turtles/fish/rat, eat bagel while driving to school, class for 1.5 hours, work for 3 hours, class for another hour, break for 1.5 hours, meeting for at least 1 hour, maybe another meeting for .3 hours to an hour, home with melting brain.
Tuesday: Wake up, feed turtles/fish/rat, eat bagel while driving to school, class for 3 hours, break for 1.5 hours, class for 1.5 hours, home to talk to belgian for 3 hours via skype, hopefully get some work done, bed.
Wednesday: Wake up, feed turtles/fish/rat, eat bagel while driving to school (I have a pile of uneaten bagels in my car at this point, occasionally they hinder my shift stick movement), class for 1.5 hours, work for 4 hours, try to do homework for 3.5 hours with maybe an hour of math club within that, learn about all the new music at the radio station for 1.5 hours, home and bed.
Thursday: Wake up, . . . , same as Tuesday.
Friday: Wake up, feed the creatures, work for 7 hours, then hopefully socializing.
Saturday/Sunday: NOTHING. except the usual radio show.
Sounds boring, but it keeps my mind off of how I'm still at this school. Somehow though I've managed to:
-Become chummier with lots of nerds.
-Get a sort of new (i.e. the former display) macbook.
- Have a occasional crazy days that fill my need for excitement.
Letme tell you about my last Friday:
I, drove past lots of roadkill at 7 AM while blasting Jay Reatard, took the GREs and did fairly miserably, drove past more roadkill while blasting The Jaguar Club, petted one of the housecats and learned that I'm probably going to be automatically taken into the grad program in Belgium since grad school is just a regular school there and everyone has a right to schooling in Belgium as long as you meet minimum requirements (passing high school or having an undergrad degree), ate lunch with a friend and met a fan of my radio show in the restaurant and rambled to the fan the same way I do on air (which I'm pretty sure he found quite entertaining), poorly rock climbed, went to the supermarket with the same friend from lunch and made a feast (knish, pumpkin soup and baklava), went to a party with the same friend, started a crazy dance party at said party with some crazy nerds, ditched out the backdoor of the party when the neighbor of the hostess started throwing pieces of wood off a balcony right in front of cops, went home and passed out.
That's my life. I'm going to dance to some Jogger now (I recommend the first track listed on the player) and then go to bed.
Godspeed. Next week = drunken debauchery and more music than my brain can handle. | | |
| Looks like I fell off the planet again for a few months. Been sort of busy busy to keep my mind off of how I'll be in this dreadful place for an extra year.
This'll hopefully be my easiest semester (only 3 math classes, a stats class, and a seminar course!) I already finished my first math assignment today! Now just to do my other one, along with the readings I fell behind on, while learning SPSS as well as my 3 jobs and somehow fitting studying for the GREs (I was bad and didn't study this summer as much as I should have). Oh well.
In fun news, doing a week straight of 10 hour work/class days and barely eating does wonders to your shape and and muscles. Who knew lifting tables without any food in you made your arm muscles strengthen so fast.
I don't really have anything significant to write, I do need to finish recopying my numerical analysis class notes. Trust me, numerical analysis is a lot more fun than it sounds. I learned what's the biggest and smallest number the average computer can calculate!
I just created a log in account for the school I really really want to go to for my masters degree! Woo. Productivity to balance out how I watched Dead Like Me on Hulu literally all day yesterday. | | |
| Today i choked on a cottonball and thought I was going to die. instead I swallowed it.
I also now have sensitive teeth because of the massive amount of cavities I'm pretty sure I got from having the worst dentist in the world previous to a week ago getting all filled. I think I'm going to get mouthwash again.
A few hours ago I attended the most generic wedding ever known to man and slightly wanted to kill myself between the feeling I still have of a cottonball in my throat and my tooth hurting if I had anything too sweet, hot, or cold. I decided to definitely just get married in a town hall.
I saved some turtles from certain death under my parents' care by spending almost $100 on a proper tank, reptile set, lamp, and floating pad and I now hate turtles. If they make it another year and get to a decent size for their age, I think it'll be worth it.
My rat has apparently been demolishing the bedbox of my room. Luckily I'm moving out in 3 weeks and I'm never letting him play in my room again (he even pulled some of my stuff into the box.)
It's time for me to get addicted to battlestar galactica now and make this horrible day not exist. | | |
| things i did this weekend:
~went to a wine and cheese party and it was delicious.
~worked a table at a mainly horrible outdoor concert for hours, but i will get paid for it.
~went climbing outside for the first time ever, and sucked ass at it, but wasn't too bad for my first time ever.
~went to an of montreal concert that had a horrible opener and obnoxious tall people who like to stand in front of people shorter than them.
~fought with my mom on the phone, but both grew closer in the end.
~rebooked my flight for belgium since my layover flight got changed to the day before my actual flight.
~skyped a lot with the boy ik zee graag.
things i did not do this weekend:
~my homework, no explanation needed.
got to prioritize of course.
just three more weeks of classes. i'm literally losing my mind. | | |
| been busy busy busy. this semester has been a toughie on my brain, and i've been neglecting my independent study class, so i have a lot of work to do this vacation too while i show my mystery surprise guest around the northeast! i examed last night for 2.5 hours and today i have another exam for just 50 minutes, and then tomorrow i have exams for 2.75 hours and those will be hard, but then my mystery guest will appear and all will be well, if i manage to study enough for the exam i haven't studied for at all tomorrow... well that's all boring stuff. here's what's been going on:
1. tv!? in the past month i watched pretty much all 5 seasons of daria (the old mtv cartoon, back from when mtv was good) and the movies. i also watched a good portion of the Testees series on hulu (only for america ip address i believe). i also got some friends into Mission Hill. good thing i got the dvd of that from tower records before it closed in my town.
2. books!? i've been addicted to Neal Stephenson thanks to brother and sister in law. over winter break i read Zodiac (which is excellent, saving the environment AND explosions), Snow Crash (also excellent, considering the heroine is a sassy teenaged girl that i wish i'd been). this month i read Peter Høeg's (the guy who wrote the fairly successful Smilla's Sense for Snow which I thought was a touch better than this newer book of his that I read) The Woman and the Ape. I liked the ape in the book. Then a friend recommended Charles Baxter's The Feast of Love to me and i couldn't put it down. It made me feel like a super sappy chick, but it was pretty good. I have no idea what the movie is like, I just realized it exists when trying to find a good link for the book (there are more links for the movie than the book...)
3. music?! Lots of good stuff came out recently. There was Faunts, who can be a bit over-dramatic and emo sounding, but it's pretty good overall. Then there's the Brooklyn artist, Andrew Thompson, who sounds like what you'd expect from Williamsburg (but in the nostalgic 60s style, not the overclichéd super dancey stuff they produce now). Tussle is pretty sweet for a more minimalist layered sound. Abe Vigoda (the band, not the actor) put out a new ep. It's so sweet, someone already took it from the radio station the first week it came out. and for those who like weirder/quirker stuff, there's a new Sparks album. They greatly influenced another band I was addicted to over the summer, The Chap.
4. rock climbing?! well, i have no links to really post about that. i've been rock climbing 3 times a week since getting back from brussels, i'm getting pretty decent. I can do all of the V0s (the easiest climbs) and a good portion of V1s and some V2s! Monday I finished 4 climbs (a V0+ that should've been marked as harder than it was, 2 V1s and a V2!), which is pretty impressive usually. I now have the grip of a boy who masturbates an ungodly amount.
one of these days i'll write about all the exciting trips i keep going on. i can't wait for tomorrow at 2 pm. | | |
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