It's Been Busy
So much has been happening. First, I want to thank Nick and Esme for the party invite and vegan pâté. That was very thoughtful. Much math and music talk was had and enjoyed. Second, the shindig at Rachel and Geoff's place last night was tons of fun. I don't think that there could have been a larger showing of acoustic guitars outside of a Mogwai unplugged show. I met a fellow who I'd been through a war with. (And who said there are no foxhole atheists?) Also, discussing Middle Eastern Politics (of which I am trying to be a little less in the dark about, but after avoiding politics for so long it's hard to get educated overnight) with Rachel was quite fun.

I've been trying to do some reading as well, mostly some textbooks for next semester (complex variables and particle physics) but I've been especially enjoying Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near. I feel that I'm a little less of a pessimist in the longer term since I've read it. Chris read to me a little section of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and it was incredible, so I have to add that in somewhere. I sometimes wish that I weren't so woefully illiterate, having spent so much time grinding my knees to dust on my skateboard while my friends were reading the classics. So I have that to fit in and Dennet's Breaking the Spell. There's a lot more here, especially in relation to Kurzweil's book, but I'll have to save that for later.

After working nearly every day, I've managed to save up enough for rent, groceries and I'm pretty much right on budget for paying school fees. Hooray for personal finance roller-coasters!