Possibly closing this window would be a good start....

Well, that doesn't sound like pretending at all!

Oh, Jesse reminded me (sorry for using your pains to talk about meMeME) - remember the article I had to talk about in class on Sunday, the one I couldn't begin to understand until I sat and translated parts of it word-for-word into Hebrew?

Well, in class I said at the beginning that there were lots of things that were unclear to me in the text (because, well, had I not, it would have been pretty clear when I started talking). It turned out? Some parts, the most difficult ones, in which the writer talks about another French philosopher (Serres) - the professor of my class, whom nobody can suspect in lack or knowledge or understanding, said that he himself doesn't understand what he's talking about! I felt in such good company when he said it, I had to fight the urge to pump my fist and go "Yes!" out loud on the spot (Um, in Hebrew). Then some other parts that were not clear enough, the professor talked about and explained that the ideas in them were only half-baked and still not completely clear to the writer himself, and we'll learn later in the semester the book in which he writes them properly, and I was so very relieved that it wasn't just me, it was also the person who actually wrote the thing. So, all in all, I think that it went OK. With the parts that I did get to talk about, that is.

That's great, Nilly! It's always good to find out that things that don't make sense to you really and truly don't make sense.

I had to fight the urge to pump my fist and go "Yes!" out loud on the spot (Um, in Hebrew).

I'd pay to see that.

Still, it must be annoying to be asigned something to read that was that undeveloped. Reminds me of the story of a famous mathematician - he was late for a class in college and arrived to see three problems on the board, So he wrote down the problems and worked on them that night. He found the problems suprisingly difficult, so the next day in class he appolgized to the prof that he had only been able to solve two of the three. It turns out that, had he gotten to class on time the previous day, he would have learned that none of the three problems had ever been solved by anybody.

Nilly, I was wondering if it would turn out that way. That's so cool.

Robin and -t are cracking me up, helping Jesse "work" harder.

the professor of my class, whom nobody can suspect in lack or knowledge or understanding, said that he himself doesn't understand what he's talking about!

Oh, that's awesome.

You mean take out all the cussing?

No, silly, it's an academic article I have to explain -- I'm adding cussing! (This actually sounds much like Nilly's assignment from hell, except I got to pick the article, and it's not that hard.)

Did you see the part where I am changing jobs and moving to Palo Alto?

Lee, that is awesome! I've been huge with the skimmage and skippage lately and I'm glad I saw this. Many congrats!

Happy Belated Birthday, Laura! Good luck with your son's knees!

Happy Birthday, Lysana!

It is not raining outside. Surreal.

In other news, I turned my alarm off and went back to sleep for two hours. Which was bad. Since I needed to get up early, and not very late. And now I need to write a quick paper. And eat something, since my vision is going in and out. Also, I should race with all this, since I have not been to work, and I should have been. And yet I'm not racing with anything. I am catching up on natter instead.

I really want to go back to sleep.

It's always good to find out that things that don't make sense to you really and truly don't make sense.

Or that at least they don't make sense to lots of people.

I'd pay to see that.

My roommates did. And since one of them is getting married in two-weeks-minus-a-day, we're looking for a new one. But I don't think I can add that to the advertisments we put all over the university as a point in our favor.

it must be annoying to be asigned something to read that was that undeveloped.

I think, as far as I understood, that the lecturer wanted us to follow the process - the article was based in part on a book we read last semester, and the next one will again be about another book, so it's a step in a longer road, in a way.

I'm adding cussing!

Some of the words you have to use when talking about academic articles definitely sound like cursing, so I'm not surprised one bit.

I've been huge with the skimmage and skippage

I'm very pleased that at least one good thing came out of my own skippage.

Thanks Nora (and Nilly). Apart from the whole no idea how I am going to get everything I need to done in time thing, I'm excited.