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[tomas1297]

 Um...I like Friday evenings?

[Mindmaker]

Not me.
I can choose between a) doing something on the PC b) reading a book.
Social contact of any sort is not an option.

[iceball3]

Not me.
I can choose between a) doing something on the PC b) reading a book.
Social contact of any sort is not an option.

Technically you're making social contact with us....

[Mindmaker]

So talking loudly to yourself at the bus station, while being surrounded by a lot of strangers counts as making social contact too?
Because it's pretty much the same.

It just would be nice to have someone to talk to, that is all.

[ChairmanPoo]

Everybody needs somebody sometime...

[Vector]

It just would be nice to have someone to talk to, that is all.

;_;

I'm writing your letter!  I'm writing it today!  And soon it will be in the mail, and you can see my weird handwriting and doodles all over the outside of the envelope!  It'll be great!

[Mindmaker]

It just would be nice to have someone to talk to, that is all.

;_;

I'm writing your letter!  I'm writing it today!  And soon it will be in the mail, and you can see my weird handwriting and doodles all over the outside of the envelope!  It'll be great!

Thank you, I appreciate it. I really do.
Bit scared to, but mostly looking forward to it.

[Mindmaker]

Damn, I really need to make that mafia post...

[Sowelu]

New smartphone yay!

...Doesn't seem to actually connect to the cellular network, boo.  Maybe they're just taking a long time to port over the old number.  A long time.

also my bipolar issues seem to be wrecking my life as I have random breakdowns and apparently I'm way overworked_{and I wound up nearly hospitalized for separate, more physical ouchy things but at least those are not going to kill me but they did make me miss work}

[Mindmaker]

This may also spell the end of my mathematical career as a serious student[...]

This is confusing.
So what are you up to? Simply catching up with the stuff you always wanted to do/learn? Waiting for what the future might bring?

Concentrating on my other courses, so that I actually get something out of them.  I'm going to try to blow through the first couple of chapters of my Russian textbook this weekend, and then I have various Greek philosophers to study, my history of math textbook to start eating, and some abstract algebra to learn about.

Plus a little time spent watching Russian (or German, haven't decided yet) movies and reading crime novels/working on my topology textbook, because that was neat, playing card games with my housemates, history books () and so on.


Basically, I've realized that I learn best when I have spare time to explore other options.  I do not learn well when I have someone saying "Learn this, learn this all the time, and your off time belongs to me, now and forever."  I'm currently doing well in my rhetoric class because I spent a couple years analyzing the hell out of every novel I came across and developing basic nihilism/existentialism/evolutionary psychology theoretical frameworks as I tried to go to sleep.  No one told me to do that, or even really knew I was doing it.  It's resulted in a major advantage over other students, though, which I intend to keep and wring out for all I can.

I don't think I'll be a good mathematician if I just pound down the math all day.  What has made me good at math thus far has been my mental flexibility and creativity--my ability to bring concepts into different frameworks, to see things differently, to conceptualize.  If I want to succeed, I need to nip this mental stagnation in the bud and start prying my mind open again.  Look at new concepts.  Build new frameworks.  Stop confusing Russian with Polish and French (it was horrible.  I kept responding in French in class today, or wanting to say "co" instead of "kto").

Hell, maybe I'll write some short stories.  No matter what, my goal is to learn as much as I can about whatever I can, and be happy.  Force-feeding myself math does not make me happy or well-educated.  Studying math along with philosophy, Russian, theater, cinematography, history... well, that makes me very, very happy.  Also well-educated.

Dammit, I want some time to read and take notes on my 1,500-page brick about the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.  Is that too much to ask?

So how much do you actually do in regular lessons, how much in extracurricular courses and what's left to do in your spare time?

[Lord Shonus]

Kapersky thinks every .exe on my system is a keylogger, trojan, or virus (not infected with one, one in and of itself.). Including the Kapersky exe itself.

beware: programs like Virut can infect a lot of files

It's picking up the files on the Diablo II CD in my drive. I'm quite certain it's just an idiot.

[Cthulhu]

It still might be compromised by a virus.

[Tack]

It might be a virus, when everything around it isn't.

[Boksi]

I'm sad because I know exactly what will happen on the next episode of Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Inspector. It's a real wham episode.

At least Axel has a real reason to *spoiler* the Alteisen's *spoiler* in this adaption. In the GBA game he did it just to be a prideful douchebag.

Spoiler: Spoilers (click to show/hide)

"rip off" and "arm", respectively.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've never seen Kaspersky act like that before. Strange. It might very well be compromised.