Nilly, are you around to help with a couple math problems if I don't get them finished before Emily leaves?

good morning. My furnance is all of a sudden super active and my room gets really warm about this time in the morning. uncomfortably warm. bleagh.

oh well, up early enough for breakfast and stretching before work, so that's good at least.

vw, Yup.

Morning, msbelle.

I think I got it all figured out. It was more completing the square. Not too bad.

Thanks!

The best kind of help is the one that's not even needed. Because it demands minimum work from me this way you know that you figured it out all on your own.

bwah! Exactly.

I like it, when I'm TAing, when a student raises their hand to ask something, and when I turn to them, they say that it doesn't matter anymore. Like the very process of phrasing the question helped them find the answer.

Like the very process of phrasing the question helped them find the answer.

I do this all the time. I use IM at work to phrase my programming questions to a friend, and he almost never has to answer.

Thanks, Nilly! She does observe the shabbat, but none of the guests are Jewish. I think as guests, we will be expected to honor the customs of the household, but it will be casual...but I want to hold up my end of the social contract!

I now need to find a detailed list of kosher foods. I was thinking I'd bring a lemon cake, but I will check.

I am SO sleepy. I just want to crawl back into bed. I was coughing all night, which is so frustrating and disrupts the sleep so much.

Best programming advice that I ever got was that if you can state the problem in English, you're halfway to solving it. And this works for non-programming problems sometimes too.