Halloween costume idea: Abacus-face

From Math Goes Trick Or Treating Yet Again

Where was I on the sixteenth? Let me check LJ and b.org and my email. It's all on record somewhere.

Can I go home now? Please?

Ha, yeah. That is totally how I remember what the hell I was doing on a particular day. Or I go back through my Google Calendar.

Halloween costume idea: Abacus-face

That looks like that thing from Spirited Away. But with an abacus.

Yay, raise!

Yay, good interview!

I'm sorry to hear about your family's loss, but it's good her brother was able to be with her at the end.

And Tom, I too see progress with you, and just the fact that you're able to express it with us is a big deal. Keep plugging away.

10 greatest TV pilots:

• Twin Peaks
• My So Called Life
• Hill Street Blues
• The Westerner
• Star Trek
• The Sopranos
• Miami Vice
• Lost
• 24
• Homicide: Life On The Streets

I think that's a pretty good list of shows that came out of the cage swinging (I'm pretty sure I fucked up that metaphor). Never seen The Westerner, though, so I can't comment on that. But all the rest were very "Whoa. What are you doing here? What are we in for?" even if they never delivered on the promise, or devolved into parodies of themselves (yeah, Bauer, I'm looking at you).

Completely unrelatedly, go you, Tom. I think not remembering is perfectly normal under average circumstances, and even more so under yours. I wish it didn't have to be hard for you, because you don't deserve hard things, but if wishes were horses, well, I'd be really irritated, because how many horses do you need, and how does that help Scola?

Yay, Suzi!!!!! That's wonderful!

Tom, what Teppy said.

I don't remember large swaths of my childhood, but I always assumed that meant I had a dull childhood, except for especially interesting vacations or seeing a deer a close range back in the hills and such. I've got a highlights reel, not a transcript.

This is me. I remember highlights, but not day-to-day stuff.

This is me. I remember highlights, but not day-to-day stuff.

I think very few people can remember their day-to-day stuff of their childhood.

I've always found memory very fascinating, even before I was old enough to attend school. I remember when I was about four, wondering why I remembered some stuff on some days but not other days. I figured out that having an emotional reaction to something that happened was the reason people remembered old stuff as opposed to just forgetting it.

Completely unrelatedly, go you, Tom. I think not remembering is perfectly normal under average circumstances, and even more so under yours. I wish it didn't have to be hard for you, because you don't deserve hard things, but if wishes were horses, well, I'd be really irritated, because how many horses do you need, and how does that help Scola?

This!

I remember various scenes and images from my childhood, but little else at this point. Although for some of it I wonder whether it was real or not.

Scola, you're the bravest man I've ever met.

What I remember as very specific instances where the conversations seem very clear to me and even visuals from the rooms or clothing - those are the early childhood memories people most often dispute with me. It seems how I remember things at that age was not so often the reality.

As for lost memories, whole chunks of college are in an alcohol fog. Do not remember classes, people, or events from whole chunks of Junior year.