Congrats! ^_^

A horrible fire erupts through your university killing every person, computer, and file that had knowledge of your thesis.

Marley MacGuffin Alloy, what are you an expert in now?

I sat in the gunners seat of a challenger II tank yesterday. I might do a gratuitous post with pics when I copy them off the camera.

Archaeology!

Specifically in Bronze Age Greece.

I made my math instructor cry today in her office.

Are you that bad at math?

…details please.

Nothing too explicit or deranged. We get extra credit from her if we point out mistakes in the book, or tests or assignments. I noticed that a word problem listed on a take-home assignment she handed out in the morning wasn’t solvable so I stopped by to let her know. She started crying because her cat had died the night before and she wasn’t thinking straight when she was putting together the assignment.

She was pretty worked up for a bit and since I like her and she’s pretty cool I felt bad for her. It’s a crappy situation all around though because I’m probably going to get screwed out of my extra point.

She sounds lonely. You should hit that, and watch the extra-credit come rolling in!

She’s in her 20’s, and she’s got that hot mathy-nerd-chick vibe going on for her. Although loneliness is a possibility I’m sure attention is the last thing she needs from a socially retarded married student.

Mind if I take a shot? I can be there in an hour.

It might be best if you wait until my grade isn’t under threat by the quality of your sex life.

This reminds me, I should have switched to math for a BS. I wasn’t very good at it (well once I reached a certain point), but tutoring was the only thing I was kinda good at. I probably wouldn’t have minded teaching, but doubt I could have made it through a masters. : / Oh well.

I’m enjoying math a lot more than I did in high school. I’m taking algebra right now, and then I move on to discrete math (finite math) whatever the hell that is.

It’s been a couple decades since my last math class (so to prepare for this class I enrolled and took a couple intro level algebra classes over the summer session), thankfully it’s turning out to be more fun than chore for me.

I just saw an animated GIF of a tapir (as in the animal) giving a woman (as in homo sapiens) cunnilingus.

Yes, a tapir licking… a tapir, so to speak.

No, I will not post the URL.

Yes, I am very, very disturbed by this.

How long did you have to search for it before you found it?

i didn’t, it was in a thread at shaggybevo.com, the “that’s just wrong” thread, which has gotten out of hand – way, way, WAY out of hand.

i think i’m fucking damaged from reading it. awful stuff. truly awful… a cat with its skull crushed, shit porn, a wolf’s decapitated head floating in a toilet…

the title of that thread is accurate. i’m never going back there again

Yea, the internet can be pretty traumatizing, look what it did to Lindsey Lohan.

I know the feeling. It’s weird – when I was younger I hated doing math and loved writing papers. Now I hate the writing and love the math. Which is good, I suppose, since I have another four math classes to take after the one I’m in now…