Uff...

So I now have accounts for applying online with Colorado and Texas. Although there is some issue with the Texas account that I'll have to resolve tomorrow. For some reason they're not letting me apply for "Fall 2007". Hm... odd. I must've clicked the wrong window somewhere along the line.
So that leaves....... about 30 or 40 more to go. :P

I've narrowed down a topic for my MA paper which is good, but I'm still nowhere near a good hypothesis. Been reading a lot of this guy for most of the inspiration (sometimes in agreement, sometimes not). Some very interesting comments about the very high end of the educated labor force, and the very low end. Hopefully I'll be able to piggy back on some of his data sets too. It would save a lot of time, seeing as I have only 3 more months to churn this puppy out. I won't go into the details of it here, seeing as my ideas have this funny way of getting around (ask me in person if you're very curious, but I assure you... it's nothing too interesting). Or maybe I'm just hanging out with K too much: he has a certain paranoia about his papers. In fact he's finished his first dissertation chapter (first of three), and is getting it ready for publication. Nobody knew he was even working on it except him and his advisor. Sneaky. Whenever people ask him what it's about he says, "It's boring, let's not talk about it." But I've seen the abstract, and I've seen the derivations. It's not boring. Actually its the most interesting dissertation I've seen while I've been here, theoretically and mathematically.

Enjoying a Sam Adams left over from the dinner on Saturday with K, M, S (my soon-to-be new first year roommate), and one of the Chinese students: W. K and I have been not-so-subtly trying to hook up M and W for a while now. M has said he has a preference for Asian women. A comment that we've repeated to W many times. In front of M. Whether she understood us or not, is still not quite clear, but she invited us all over for dinner. There were several differences between the dinners we usually have:
1) Furniture. We weren't eating on the floor.
2) Silverware and chopsticks. K's lack of kitchen utensils was no longer a problem.
3) No curious spots on the rug.
4) Food that was not fried.
5) Food that was not lamb.
6) More beverage choices, other than beer or water.
7) The food did not just taste of oil and curry (though I must admit that has its own distinct allure...)
Many props to our Chinese sister, who should give M a chance ;).

W supplied the meal and the house, I supplied a dessert, K brought some beer, and the other two just free loaded. And of course, K and I kept saying strange things to and about M and W all night. Trying to get them
1) embarrassed
2) angry
3) "in the mood"
4) all of the above.
No luck. Language barriers are a pesky thing.

Seriously... aside from reading articles and writing papers, we have nothing better to do with our time. So... "Mathmaker matchmaker, make me a match..."

I believe I will pay for this Sam Adams tomorrow when I bike. And not pay in the sense of "failing a testosterone test".... but we won't go into that lame excuse now will we? Oy... some one needs to hire a better lawyer. But anyway, I'll pay for this Sam Adams when I bike tomorrow. Will probably be chugging the water down. K broke an average speed of 13 mph this morning. Things are definitely getting better. 48 miles on Saturday.