graffitti wall

Thank you to everyone who voted for the Ivy Chain design for Graffitti Wall! I’m super excited about getting to use one of my designs, and I’m also relieved that people from Art 193 get to contribute ;) What an honor!

are we done yet?

I vote that for seniors, second semester senior year should end with thesis. We get to skip finals, enjoy three weeks worth of nothing, get nostalgic and all that, and apartment hunt sans the stress. And laugh at the underclassmen. Who’s with me?

Well, I guess we do get Dead Week, which is the week of non-senior finals in which seniors get to point and laugh at the underclassmen in a similar way described above. I’m just bitter because I’m writing this art paper right now….and I played the Sims all day instead of worked on it earlier. My bad. I haven’t done that in so long, so it kind of felt good. And now I have a cool Sim with a cool house.

tired of being sick

That’s it. Next year I’m getting a flu shot. I hear that this cough I have can last 4-6 weeks, and it’s nothing except a nasty bug. Between that and the cold I had last winter, I’d say it’s been a miserable year for getting sick. So, it just won’t happen next year. Even though I hate needles….I’ll figure something out.

lost my voice

Ever since last season’s Battlestar Galactica ended, I’ve run out of things to say on this blog.

I think I’ve been experiencing a handicap of little to be said in general on things too, but perhaps I’m just feeling too literal right now since I lost my voice this weekend. Loosing your voice sucks — people treat you differently because it’s immediately obvious you’re sick, and it’s very hard to communicate in general. I’ve actually been really sick since last Tuesday. As such, I’ve been in bed most the time unless feeling miserable while having to sit upright. I know I feel better now because tonight I feel a desire to exercise again and I’ve got enough energy to go to class and do homework (not the case these last few days).

This may sound late on the uptake, but I’ve enjoyed playing The Sims 2 and saw Proof recently. Both productions are of high-quality, so depending on if you’re a gamer or a movie-goer, and whether you’re out of the loop or not, you might fancy to try either one.

I’ve taken to noticing the beauty of Scripps. I feel as though every time I enter my beautiful room or walk across Jaqua Quad, I need to savor every detail, from the citrus smell to the subtle beauty. I suppose my hope is to take some of the beauty with me, beyond college and throughout life.

Finally, I would like to play a game, inspired from Cypress’s xanga. The rules are you need to say ten different things to ten different people, no names and no bringing it up again later. Sometimes you’ll know who I’m talking to, and sometimes you won’t, even if I’m talking to you. Here goes:

1. I wish you would stop bothering me….sometimes it’s really inconvenient.
2. I miss you right now.
3. You’re too good for her.
4. I’m so happy for you.
5. I wish I could be more like you, and I value our friendship very much.
6. I wish you had more faith in our school.
7. You remind me of Nicole Hartman.
8. Thank you for everything…
9. We never seem to be as close as I would like to be, but I consider you a good friend and a wonderful person. I’m going to miss you next year.
10. I love you.

why I haven’t blogged in forever

http://www.scrippscol.edu/dept/math/thesis.html

I turned it in last Friday…

TeX continues to delight me

Oh, my gosh, so I just have to share my delight about the discovery of two things that make my thesis so much prettier than it was last night. The first is the cases environment, which I never quite mastered in LaTeX until tonight since there hasn’t been a good online explanation of how to do it. The second is my delight at finding that there is a much cleaner way to label my List of Figures. So I’m typing away at my thesis and looking at those cases environment and my beautiful PDEs….and my beautiful List of Figures as well. And I’m feeling very warm and fuzzy inside.

And now, a shameless plug: come to mine and Priya’s talk tomorrow night, at Balch 213 from 6:30-8pm, okay?

Apple v. Apple lawsuit

Have you ever wondered why the Beatles aren’t on iTunes?