mybestkungfu's Diaryland Diary

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dippity doo-dah

the Canberra weekend went well!
a much needed reprieve from the Hellmouth!
we stayed in a 3-bedroom house,
5 times the size of our apartment!
that costs the same rent!

and i got the flu!
i scooped out pounds of hazelnut filling
out of miniscule white chocolate sea shells! with a butterknife!
i almost fainted walking 3km
in the heat because Michael has turned into a yeti!
i mean sadist!
(i mean yeti).

...at a small informal gathering one
evening we found ourselves amidst a tablefull of smart people.
(here-a-Doc, there-a-Doc, everywhere a post-Doc).
most-but not all- did animal research.
most had eaten the Discovery Chanel for breakfast.
surprisingly, NONE of their stories started with -
'i was so drunk last night..'
or ended with '...and then i found out
we were cousins'.

i sat on an oversized beach ball
(there weren't enough chairs), absorbing
information, comfortable in the fact that me and the cheese dip
competed for being the stupidest.

i listened to the collective whirs and clicks of super greymatter at work.
i contemplated the undercurrents of Kim Possible's
seemingly formulaic relationship with Ron Stoppable.

a few days ago one of the smart people
(a math guy) emailed us
because he's going to be in Sydney
in a few weeks to hold a
seminar at the University.
he wants to know if we can do lunch.
i email back and say 'fer sure!'
and ask if we can sit in.
he says 'sure' and attaches the specs.
the document begins with
'..an affine-equivariant depth function for multivarate data is proposed which
is easily computed in any practical dimension...'.

i go to www.dictionary.com.
i type
'P-O-S-T D-O-C-T-O-R-A-T-E'.
yep.
i win, cheese dip.

3:34 p.m. - Mar. 11, 2005

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