December 21, 2007
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and so it goes
The Plan:
3 problems from Rudin everyday
10 problems on Fridays and Saturdays (that’s right, I’m _still_ not working Fridays. That’s cause I’m awesome.)
Read a prelim solution set each of the last 10 nights until the prelim, in chronological order, because the committee has stabilized in recent years, and the solutions have been better written.Bonus:
Read those last 2 sections of Trench. (I know, I know) and addl. problem from Fulks.
OH! They’ve started posting grades, and I got an A- in the class that is dear to my heart (yay math stat!) so hopefully the waiting for the last class won’t be too bad. They posted a schedule for when grades would appear and said it wouldn’t be til Monday, so I’m really glad to start getting this out of the way. (Because yes, right now, there is a part of me that is pouting about an A- instead of an A. This is clearly a part of me that is irrational and has no memory of my homework grades.)
Early xmas to myself:
My laptop family is complete! The baby green guy on the right is an XO laptop, an experimental machine for kids in developing countries. I got mine, and some kid off the grid somewhere got one. It runs linux, completing the OS trifecta. I’m hoping that with it’s low battery consumption, sunlight friendly screen and small size, it will be the perfect “bring to school to type up homeworks on” machine. So far I can play tetris and check my email.
Xmas/bakingWe are totally behind on xmas stuff – season’s greetings cards will probably go out still, but no way are they arriving pre-xmas. We’ve still got Trading Spaces and Miracle on 34th Street to watch.
I think I want to make another round of gingerbread. I must make a pumpkin pie. I think I want to make little baby apple pies. I have a loaf of pumpkin gingerbread I can thaw out. (Cream cheese frosting covered cupcakes killed the other half of that batch and were…. just amazing. So good. SO GOOD.) Any other seasonal goodies I just gotta have but have somehow slipped my mind?
Comments (2)
I’ve been *this close* to doing the give one, get one XO laptop. I’ve been following the one laptop per child project since it started, and think that it has a great potetial to raise the level of society and enable children who otherwise couldn’t an opportunity to escape and advance. Maybe just maybe one of those children will find a cure for aids or cancer.
Merry Christmas to you both, with big hugs from all of us here.
The XO laptop is COOL! I hope you guys have a wonderful holiday…give the silly dutch boy a hug and hope to see you two this next year!