Nice is good
16 May 2008 by AprilMe: “I’m really sleepy. I think I’ll just go to bed, since I have nothing else to do.”
Mom: “Geez, what’s happened to your life?”
Me: “What’s happened to my life is that it suddenly got really, really nice.”
Mom: “Okay. Well, nice is good.”
It is true that since about Monday, my life has become extraordinarily chill. For instance, today during Calculus I went to the library and did physics homework, and I wasn’t even particularly happy about that because we really shouldn’t be having physics homework at this point in the year. The most work we’ve done in US History this week was this super-long survey (which we did after the Tripod survey… what impeccable timing) where we basically had to critique every single thing we did this year.
Actually, in German we had the first test of the year (!), but it was just kind of random and ridiculous and I really couldn’t care less about that class in general. Plus if we fail, we’ll probably just take it again.
What all this means is that I think the class I’ve had to do the most work for this week is seminar– which is truly bizarre. Because we never work in seminar; we only think*.
My presentation (on knots and hyperbolic space; you probably don’t need to hear any more about it) went surprisingly decently, probably because the bulk of it was the derivation of a (very cool) formula that was described in great detail in a book. So I basically just had to replicate that derivation fairly coherently, without mixing up my chis and my lambdas, and we were good to go.
Unfortunately, all the afore-mentioned niceness of my life has been tempered with all the crises going on in the lives of people I know. I can think of about six of them just off the top of my head. I am certainly not about to discuss any of it here, but suffice it to say that it pretty much sucks, and I wish all of them the best.
* Are they really different? In a sense, not so much. In another sense, absolutely.














