For me, the trouble with the concept of the square root of a negative number was a lot like the trouble I had accepting the idea of negative numbers. For years (it seemed like) the teachers had been telling me "You can't subtract a bigger number from a smaller number," and suddenly they were saying, "Now you can." I was mad at them for changing the rules.

It must have been hell when people started agreeing on the use of Zero....

I hate basic arithmetic, but love the whole notion of math as language to explain things with. Which may explain why I did much better in math courses with a practical application, like statistics.

i exists just as much as 2 exists. Or just as little as 2 exists, if you want to look at it that way.

Thus "proving" my philosophy, which is that nothing is an absolute, including math, and therefore nothing should be presented as such.

Please to come poke me with the fork when the math talk is gone? Thankee. Will be making chicken salad offline.

Ahem.

I just posted on Live Journal.

Tell me that when it matters to me. I'm still locked out. Hmph.

Me too, SailAweigh, me too.

It's a conspiracy, Lee. You and me. They hate us.

It's sloooooooooow as molasses, but I actually logged in and replied to someone's LJ.

Wooo.

I'm sure they'll be swamped.

Curse them, hoarding the preciousss.

Oh thank god LJ is back!

Cindy -- there are meds for panic attacks that are taken only as needed. When my panic attacks were really bad several years ago I was taking Klonopin as needed. It's starts working right away and I don't think it stays in your system very long. I'd take anywhere from a 1/4 of a pill to a whole pill depending on what I felt I needed.

Also, can anyone direct me to a decent torrent site, I've been trying to get Lost for 2 days now and I'm getting pissed (it's 35% finished and that's from last night).

I have trouble with math, I wish I understood it better, but I pretty much missed my chance at that.

Today I went shopping, the mall was having a sidewalk sale. Lane Bryant was pretty much cleaned out, I'm going to try the one at th eother mall. What they did have was mostly spring clothes. SPRING.

Granted I live in Florida and it's been annoyingly hot but it's still January. There are still some cold months left and I need some sweaters. Of course almost all LB's sweaters this year (at least the ones here) were turtlenecks, which are incredibly unflattering. I wish there was another good choice for plus size clothes here.

Also, went to Eddie Bauer, they are closing their store here (I think maybe they are closing several stores) and everything was 50% the marked price, which was already marked down. I finally finished getting my brother stuff -- an fantastic jacket for $40 (orignially $105). Plus another little fleecey jacket thing. He totally loved them.

Tomorrow I have to run to work becuase I forgot to call someone and I don't have their number.

Also tomorrow my brother goes back to NZ. I've really loved having him around, but we didn't get to spend a lot of time together -- not as much as I wanted--but we got along the best we have in decades.