Fall happiness

Wow, apologies to all those who check back on this site regularly for the complete lack of interesting updates, I sometimes think of things i want to write about but never do get down to doing it -- life has been really busy lately. Ya right, i hear you say, you're taking 3 classes this quarter! Well, i've been really busy doing all sorts of non-work things, and somehow the lack of work quantity is made up for by a lack of work efficiency.

Anyway, it's been a nice few days here at the UofC, the leaves are all changing colour and i realise it may be the last fall i see over here, and the temporal beauty slipping away is like a brush of smooth silk as you slide through a curtain into another room.





And it was warm enough to sit on the grass and listen to the rustle of the leaves as they skitted across the grass and each other... if only for a day.

Why...

Do i feel more productive after finishing my laundry than after finishing a problem set?

Cold

So since the first snow a week or two ago, it's been at that irritating chilly time in Chicago where it's cold enough to shiver but not cold enough for the management to turn on the heaters. So despite a concerted effort by all the tenants of my landlord to call and bug the management and coerce them to switch the heat on, there still are cold nights where the system somehow just doesn't work.

Just as well, because cold = shiver = tense = nervous energy = higher excitation energy = ability to do homework faster instead of falling asleep.

Cold fusion!

Jamba Juice Philosophy

So say you heard hearsay that Jamba Juice was the most delicious tasty fruitjuice thing ever, from many multiple people. Then you had a chance to drink it for a while, say, while you were in chicago, but then you would never be able to drink it again, because you would be prohibitively far away enough that it'd be difficult to say, just drop by for a cuppa.

Would you drink it? And live with the knowledge that every subsequent fruit juice will be much less satisfying since you'll forever compare it to that better juice that jamba is? Is it worth it to know that you have indeed tasted good stuff?

Maybe it's different if you don't really drink fruit juice. Maybe if you've drunk lots of bad fruit juice and some of what you would consider to be good fruit juice, then it would be nice to see what the best fruit juice tastes like, and push your limits of cognition. hmm.

Felled

So last night yesterday last week a storm blew through chicago, and while I was eating 3 different kinds of chicken (Lemon chicken bits, jerk half chicken, and hainaneseish garlicish whole chicken), trees were outside getting killed by huge winds, which i discovered the next day:





(UofC philosopher-scientists pondering whether a tree makes a noise when it falls in the night amidst a noisy thunderstorm and it's too noisy for anyone to hear it.)

Quite amazing. am i glad all i had to do was trod through ankle-deep water in my garage, and not deal with a tree on my car.

Haven't been posting in ages and ages. Rishi's been here and now jiax is visiting, and otherwise it's been a busy few weeks just settling in and clearing up admin and all sorts of random things. This should be a good quarter though, have decided to take things easy and develop the other non-academic bits of my life, and apply for grad schools and all that extra stuff. and of course, sleep.