There appears to have been some kind of sinister agreement within academia in which it was determined that the more mathematically involved a class was, the earlier in the morning it should be held. I'm not sure who benefits from this arrangement; the professors are merely Ph.D wielding versions of myself, and they don't appear to enjoy it any more than I do. In last quarter's differential equations class, the professor would come staggering in as class began clutching his thermos. We were never sure if his coffee was as Irish as he was, but it was definitely the case that he wasn't going to try to solve anything with out it. Any errors that ended up on the board were attributed to deficiencies therein. Anyway, it's a new quarter now, and this time the ungodly-hour-class this time is Thermodynamics for Engineers. This ought to be rich.

I'm not famous for anything. But if I were, I would be famous for not keeping diaries. At some point in third grade, I kept a diary for a few weeks as a class assignment. The entries, of course, were vapid and ridiculous, and as soon as the keeping thereof was severed from my academic achievement -- I say, on the very day that any appending thereto became voluntary -- the entire endeavor was unceremoniously discarded. So... here I am in the 21st century. Interestingly enough, I am STILL in school, but of course that which is asked from me is somewhat more substantial than journal keeping. And yet here I am starting a diary (a blog, in the parlance of our times) and apparently it is a voluntary endeavor. The question of course is "why"?

Well, I don't really know. I often feel like I have things to say, and this seems to be a socially acceptable forum. Chances are I won't end up actually posting much since my congenital aversion to these sorts of things continues to be alive and well. But if I do write anything down, they will likely be the sorts of things that I'm interested in. Such things include science (I've been a scientist since I was six), politics (I've been a liberal since I was 15), food (I cook things with brewers yeast in them) various forms of entertainment utilizing the multimedia technology of our day (I'm a consumer thereof), philosophy and religion (I have lots of half baked ideas) and geography (I like knowing where places are, and I REALLY like actually going to said places). If my perspective on any of these issues sounds interesting, feel free to stop by from time to time and I will try to overcome whatever combined forces of nature and nurture have made me a non diary keeper and put some reading material up from time to time. If they don't sound interesting, then go find something that does and I'll just talk to myself here.