Peer pressure

[dr_whom]

Yes, I finally succumbed. Don't be disappointed if I never write anything interesting here, though; it's just for the friends list.

However, as a reward for anyone who notices that this is here, I'll try to do that meme where you comment and I reply by telling you (1) whatever randomly comes to mind about you, (4) something which doesn't make sense to many people other than you and me, (5) my first clear memory of you, and (7) something I wonder about you, as well as what (2) song, (3) flavor, and (6) vowel I associate with you. Well, I'll try, anyhow.

Yeah.

—AJD, finally back in Philadelphia

(Update: I suppose I've stopped doing this by now.)

Comments

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Shiny journal!

[dr_whom]

1. For some reason, I don't think your photo there really looks like you. I can't put my finger on why.
2. At the moment, "My Time of Day", from Guys and Dolls.
3. Lemonade!
4. Have you installed the new whiteboard in your lab yet?
5. My answer to this for you is the same as yours for me: at the Kong, when I was visiting Harvard in March '04, and we both didn't have Masq costumes yet. And that led, of course, to a long walk around Cambridge. Well, kind of long.
6. [i]. As in "meep!"
7. Have you decided whether you're okay with being a math major yet?

[dumble.livejournal.com]

1. Perhaps because I'm not wearing glasses?
4. Oh yeah, it looks great!
6. Whee!
7. Um... Not quite. I think I'm okay with having to fulfill the requirements for a math major. But as for what I actually want to do with my life... Well, Ed described my interests as a connected but oddly shaped oblong figure spaning multiple disciplines, probably with math on one side and psychology on the other. So it remains to be seen where precisely in that spectrum I best fit.

[dr_whom]

1. Could that be it? I dunno... maybe.
4. And has anybody else noticed that it's there?
7. So, I don't think that's exactly what I meant. Last time this came up, one of your worries was feeling frustrated and uncomfortable as a member of the math department because you weren't as devoted to math as everybody else. I didn't expect you to have suddenly become devoted to the math concentration in the last six months. But I guess what I was asking was, are you more okay with the idea of being someone who majors in math because you rather like it, even though everyone else (except me) seems to major in math because they're crazy about it?

[dumble.livejournal.com]

4. No, they're remarkable unobservant... =)
7. Right now, yes. When school starts and I have to take classes and deal with other math majors again... we'll see.