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| Like Kevin, I am bringing Xanga back!
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| A lot of things have changed recently:
1. I'm wearing glasses.
2. I'm eating meat again.
3. I'm watching a lot of tv shows.
First I'll talk about number 2 since number 1 sort of follows from number 2. I started eating meat again because I love bacon, steak, hot dogs, ham, pepperoni, lamb, corned beef, etc. I decided that eating meat would make me happier than not eating meat, and I'm all about my happiness.
Since I'm not a vegetarian anymore, I needed a new quirky trait so now I am a glasses person, a purple glasses person. Purple is my favorite color. It's the color of my pencil, math binder, and eyeglasses. Purple makes me happy.
TV also happens to make me very happy. I like the shows Grey's Anatomy, Gilmore Girls, Pepper Dennis, and America's Next Top Model in that order. Next year I'm planning on getting TiVo so I don't miss a minute of my favorite shows that make me happy. Twice this week I've had to miss parts of season finales of my favorite shows because I had other obligations at the time. If I had TiVo this past Monday, I wouldn't have had a sinking feeling in my gut during my Math 54 review session that each minute I listened to my GSI lecture about Differential Equations was a minute that I would miss of Grey's Anatomy season finale. It was really tearing me up.
Finally, I'm wearing a turqouise t-shirt with either a tucan or a parrot on it---everyday!
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| I had an especially disheartening total idiot moment today.
I've been very excited recently about the "fact" that the net reproduction ratio is the leading eigenvalue of a Leslie Matrix. I've been telling everybody about it. I've been like a little chicken clucking around town about how exciting this "fact" is and how I finally understand why we calculate the net reproduction ratio the way we do. I discovered today, though, that I've been absolutely wrong about this and that the NRR is very obviously not an eigenvalue of the Leslie Matrix, unless the population is stationary. Crushing...
It's just been one of those days where I question how I think that I can possibly achieve greatness when I'm making mistakes that are so obviously wrong.
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| I went to LA last week. My goal was to land my own reality series, but this did not come to pass. I did manage to make it out of the two block radius between my hotel and the conference hotel to visit Santa Monica with an old friend. Being at the beach reminded me of two of the many reasons I love California: beaches and sunshine. I'm going to try to go the beach again this weekend with Emmy. Hopefully, it will be nice out. We've been getting a lot of rain recently.
I had a hard time sleeping one night while I was in LA because I was thinking about Leslie matrices. I got so excited about the connection between the eigenvalues of the matrix and the NRR that it kept me up for hours.
I'm such a happy nerd right now. I wish I would update more often, but most of the things I'm getting excited about lately are hard to relate. For instance, writing working functions in R really pleases me. Talking to the mathematician about math is really wonderful. I don't think most of my readership is interested in this sort of information. | | |
| Not much sleeping going on this week. This is why I can hear cats yowling outside at 1:45 a.m. I know why people don't have sex cat style. Ouch!
Greg Jackson is out here visiting. We talked about cats tonight. We both have had siamese cats at some point in our lives. Siamese cats, especially very purebred siamese cats, have very distinctive meows that are quite loud. Greg and I were siamese meowing at each other for a little bit. That was fun. Also, his siamese cat's name is Couscous. I think that is an absolutely fabulous name for a cat.
At some point during grade school, my mom made our answering machine message, "meow, that's siamese for hello." That was a really fabulous answering machine message.
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