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Ho! Lazy day over here.

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Damn, today was fine.

When I got up, Chad was just about to leave for Chapters. He waited for me to have my morning English muffin, and cereal, both of which weren't necessarily eaten in the morning, though they are patently morningish foods.

He invited me to drive him, which was a pleasant surprise, and I think I did an okay job of getting us both over there in one piece. It's great that he's willing to let me drive, because this means I might actually get some practice in Peterborough. The drive to Chapters is about six blocks, and we made a brief stop at Rogers to drop off a couple movies.

Once we got to Chapters, we stayed for the better part of five hours. I attacked some more of Don Quixote, aswell as looking at a book of the Ten Greatest Mathematical Puzzles of All Time, and some Latin stuff. The Ten Greatest weren't really that awesome, and I think the author might have been embarking on some crazy tangents. In the section on the Fibonacci problem for example, he found a way of mentioning, and illustrating Mobius strips... How'd he do that? Another one I checked out, was Introducing Relativity. I would actually like to sit down and read that whole thing, because it seems fascinating. They did even go so far as to mention some nontrivial math! Sacre bleu!

We managed to come up with some nontrivial math ourselves, when we came up with a question about the Harmonic Series. We were looking for a function such that H_f(n)≥n. Where of course f(n) is the smallest such integer, and H_n is the partial harmonic sum. After shottily messing around with it for an hour, we appreciated a barista's hair who was working at Starbucks, and deemed the problem intractable by our means. Chad kept on looking at Voltaire's Bastards, and that was it. When we got home, we checked MathWorld, and figured out it was way harder than we'd originally though.

When Victoria got home from work, Chad and her went off to the gym. I went climbing and finally splurged on a Rock and Rope membership. Damn, so much fun, but my hands are still callousing up and I need to pause often.

Gah! My university's library the sucks! I really want to read more Italo Calvino, especially Invisible Cities, and The Baron in the Trees, but I can't.. Because they don't have it. This shit is epic, what are they doing dicking around like this!

*has a magic realism temper tantrum*

And now, for more Don Quixote. News at 11.

So I've started to indulge my Snooze button like one consents to a silly game. This morning, when the alarm when off, I wandered around my room a bit, realized "Yeah, I'm awake, alright." Then just for a little kick, hit the snooze, and went back to bed. What I really should have done was sit down immediately at the laptop, and void out the bowels of my mind, by journaling a little, and the go and eat a little breakfest. Instead, I put myself back a half hour on my day, and forgot most of my dream.

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And now, I have to run to Water St. really really, so I can hopefully find a copy of Don Quixote. Derek and I want to read through it together, in a sort of shotty reading-race. Hopefully someone up there has an unexpurgated copy...