Flykyr's Brain is Tired


Need sleep... This psych paper is evil... as usual. I think I may be almost finished, which is nice, but it's still a page too short. x_x Grr. It's a problem for tomorrow! Or rather, later on today. Hmm... Someday I will go to sleep at midnight, just for fun. I wonder if it would even be possible... *ponders and becomes very sad*

So... news of the day... Math recitation was interesting. Last Friday, in math lecture, some students had written things about our prof on the blackboards that are hidden below the chalk tray (they slide back behind the wall and can be pulled up when needed). Our prof pulled up one of the boards while writing and it said 'Prof. Mattuck rules!' We were all very amused. It was even better though because the other two boards (there's three panels in the massive blackboard at the front of the lecture hall) had similar things written on them. It was a nice stress-reliever sort of thing to break up the lecture. Well, anyway, today, our math TA was late... as usual. His name is Jerry and he's always late because he teaches a class right before he comes and does recitation with us. Anyway, people decided to write stuff on the board for him to be amused by. Tim wrote a good one: "MATTUCK IS GOD. JERRY IS HIS PROPHET." The funny thing was that Jerry didn't notice for the first five or ten minutes of class even though it was smack dab in the center of the chalkboard. Jerry has tunnel vision or something... Well, it was funny, because he finally saw it and said, "Um, right." Then he left it up for a while. I wonder if he was flattered... Oh yeah, another funny/strange thing happened in today's recitation. There's all sorts of way to show that a letter represents a vector. Most commonly, you draw an arrow over the letter. Another way that's commonly used in textbooks is to put the letter in boldface type. Jerry's way of putting chalkboard letters into bold-face type is to make it look like a roman numeral - he puts lines on the top and the bottom of the letter. So he was using X today, and when he added the lines, he made it look like an hourglass. He'd never done that before - he usually uses the little arrows, but, I don't know. He was being weird today or something. Anyway, we asked him what it was, and he explained. When he finished, this kid calls out, "It looks like a chocolate chip cookie!" We stare at him for a second or two, and then all yell, "WHAT?!" after which he was suitably embarrassed and refused to reveal what had been going through his mind at that point in time. Ahahahaha... People are amusing.

My brain is melting down or something. Either that, or I just have bad nightvision, which is probably the more reasonable explanation, or at least I'd prefer to think so since the thought of melting brains is just plain gross. Eww... I'll stop talking about that right now. Anyway, I had an unpleasant reminder that I live in a city, and cities are quite... different from small towns, especially where vermin are concerned. So I was walking along to my gym class (jiu jitsu!) and I saw something moving under a bush. I got closer, and I was thinking, 'Geez, it's awfully late for a squirrel to be out at night.' I swear, this critter was nearly the size of the gray squirrels that hang out near MIT's sporadic oak trees. I got closer, and then started thinking, 'Wait... What happened to its tail? It's so small and not fluffy-looking at all.' Then, a step or two later, 'Oh my goodness. It's a rat?!' The rat stares at me with this 'Is she going to feed me or not' sort of expression on its face before fading into the underbrush. Aaah! Big brown rats right in the middle of campus! Right across from my dorm! Ew! One thing's for sure... we're not in Londonderry anymore, Flykyr. Yes, this IS a city. And I am painfully aware of that fact. So... yeah. What kind of squirrel would be out at night anyway?

A side note of squirrels: They are really stupid. These oak trees drop acorns like mad (and try to kill people, as I've mentioned before) and there are acorns EVERYWHERE! So where are the squirrels? Good question - they must have gone on vacation or something. So the other day these groundskeepers went and raked up all the leaves that get all over the place from the trees. And guess what else they rake up? Yep, you got it - acorns. So now there are no acorns on the ground. And, oh, smartness! Today, I see a forlorn squirrel wandering about on the ground and eagerly pouncing on the one acorn on the ground. This is so sad... Makes me think of myself actually. I'd be stupid enough to do something like that. Someone remind me why I'm at MIT again? :P

- Flykyr Skysong

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Current mood: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn....