Spotless mind

Bonsoir, tout le monde! ça va bien?

My crazy week is in full swing. I am making a decent 10-12 hour shift a day, e.g., i just got home...hmm...feeling quite sleepy actually (say what!). Monday was an exception, but let's not talk about Monday. Hmm! Okay, moving on, mardi, mercredi, jeudi...mal, bien, pas mal...

Wonder why mercredi gets a bien? But of course, the french class! By some fluke i produced almost a spotless exam, or maybe the mojo is back, who knows! But that's not it. We saw a little b&w cartoon movie on crabs which produced quite an effect on my mood. hehe, je l'ai aimé beaucoup. How one little adventurous crab overcame the pseudo-constriction of the shell, learned to change his linear motion and thus caused quite a non-linear movement in the crab world.

Now that's my kind of crab! Oh, learned some useful slang too! A good one was, 'j'ai foutu!' As usual the curious Georgina here asked the prof what it meant (root-wise) and was given a pc 'i am done for'. Unsatisfied, she pestered for the infinitive ('Mais professeur, quel est le verbe qui donne le mot foutu au passé composé?') This he had to answer. But of course! Foutre=Fuck! Ja'i foutu = I am fucked! LOL...needless to say this jewel of a knowledge made my classmates very happy. Prof went on to say that there exist other rather grass root meanings, but i shall kindly spare you those as it may just be too graphic for public consumption. :-P

I think i like being an advisor, in fact je pense que i make a damn good one! So that's something i am enjoying quite a bit these days. And my math class is fun of course. Although we have embarked upon error analysis and i never found anyone who was really interested in that. I mean error bounds etc. are fine, but like clockwork students freeze on track the moment i introduce backward error analysis. It is a rather odd concept if you think about it. Instead of solving a problem approximately and analysing the error, let us we solve a slightly erroneous problem exactement. Raise your hand if you got that. Hmm, another approach is in order, wonder if i can draw a parallel using humans, ah, worth a try.

Almost ran over a racoon last night while driving back home on the dark road! He darted out from a bush but saw the headlight of my car and quickly darted back. This raised my already high faith in the quick wit of the racoonkind. Par exemple, no self-respecting alaskan racoon would ever claim that s/he can see russia from their crib, nor would they conspire on tape while under investigation for criminal charges. I tell you, there exist more intelligent racoons than human beings, percentage-wise.

Hi there head-in-cloud, tell me, qu'est-ce qui s'est passé ce matin?

I have no idea what you are talking about!

Mercredi après-minuit...il était trois heures et demie...qui l'a dit...

Allo mon ami, tu t'es endormi?
de quoi rêves-tu?
can i sit by your bed and watch you sleep?
i will try not to feel anything.
anything at all.

Essayez.