That sounds super awesome, Nora!! Jealous. (er, I wrote sj and meant Nora. getting sick does not sound awesome. French Laundry does)

Happy Birthday Aimee!!

Hil you are just going through a tough time. You are good at what you do, and part of you know's it. Maybe Mike Ford's favorite bar joke will give you a moment of stress relief:

Heisenberg, Goedel and Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg says "This is very odd and improbably, and I wonder if we might be in a joke, but I can't be certain." Goedel says "Well, if we were outside the joke we would know, but since we're inside the joke, there's no way of determining whether or not we're in a joke." And Chomsky says "Of course this is a joke, but you're telling it wrong!"

Aw, Hil. I wish I could say something useful, like Typo Boy. Brilliant bad joke, that.

Maybe I should have gone into environmental science instead of math. Except that I was never very good at chemistry.

It's not that I have the slightest clue what's the exact nature of the problem, Hil, but if I just to say one thing?

No way. Math is awesome, even though it scares me to death (THANK YOU AWFUL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR THAT) and I wish it hadn't, because there's a lot of stuff I'd like to know better. I use examples from it as metaphors, and try to illustrate with it a lot. I'm basically a Deleuze-ian who thinks we chose the whole sciences things with Enlightenment to explain ourselves to ourselves, and changes in thinking are happening when our perception of sciences changes.

So go ahead, Hil. Understand the modern world better than anyone before. I know I envy you a little for working in that field. And if there will be a change - switching from one field to the next, I'm sure it'll be for the best of you, the fields (well, except for math), and the rest of us.

Edit: and there's always this XKCD: [link]

Right. I had my internet morning fix.

Now, back to the "real world", studying "statistics".

I made Clafouti for a party /dinner tonight. It was a big hit and now I just read a recipe for an apple/ blue cheese Clafouti -- made with honey crisp apples -- more of a savory dish. Made me wish it was fall.

... Statistics frightens me. And making my feel uncomfortable.

beth b, it's the first time I hear about Clafouti. I Googled it and found a great recipe with strawberries. I can't wait till winter, and strawberries, and a cool night to try this.

Beth, do you have a link to the recipe?

Someone scraped down my throat with sandpaper. Do not like.

Someone scraped down my throat with sandpaper

Let's get that villain and make him take my statistics' final instead of me!

< /trying to get a win/win situation, though cannot see how said logic may help sj's throat>

I hope you are feeling better this morning, sj.

Good luck with the Statistics.

I'm closing my laptop and hitting the road. Planning to go about 13 hours today into NC somewhere, then another 10 or so tomorrow. Travel ~ma would be appreciated.