Current mood:

busy

General Update
Well, life has been pretty crazy in my neck of the woods lately. Some things that have been going on, in no particular order:

1. I might be moving. Where? I don't know, but probably somewhere I don't want to live, it depends of if/where my adviser moves. This is what you get when your adviser moves (either that or the need to find a new adviser). I'm not happy with either of those choices, so I guess I have to figure out which one I'm least unhappy with. (The fact that Alex is finally, for sure unless I leave, moving to San Diego in May doesn't help matters.)

2. I'm having issues with algebraic geometry. It just doesn't make any sense to me. Also, it has too many vocabulary words to learn.

3. Alex and I are planning (though not for sure, see 1) a trip up the coast this summer, probably as far as Olympia, Washington. If you have suggestions of places to visit or camp please make them.

4. I am having a CT scan of my sinuses in an attempt to figure out why I have been having so many headaches of doom. I like this approach much better than the dismissive "well, if only you would reduce your stress levels..." approach. (I don't understand how to reduce my stress levels without a personality transplant or quitting grad school, since my stress is related to my drive to do well in school, or to other things that I can't control.)

5. We (the regular-pub-going-on-Friday math graduate students plus significant others) were rowdy this weekend. Mostly, Friday involved a department get together with prospective students and then a trip to the pub, so there was more beer than usual. Then, Saturday, another math grad student threw a party. End result: weekend was a blast, but not so restful or workful.


6. Also, while at the pub on Friday, we saw the kid who hit on two other girls and me while so drunk he couldn't stand a few months ago, despite the fact that we informed him that the other girls were married (and a little white lie that I was engaged). When he did this the first time it was pretty creepy, since we were alone on a patio (it was raining so everyone else was inside) and this guy was huge. This Friday, he proceeded to try to chat up one of said same married girls while her husband was sitting on his other side.

7. Right now I am running the Matlab section for the linear algebra class that I TA. It is ungodly boring. (Both the content of the assignment and the sitting here while students do said assignments.)