I was walking over to the HUB to get some pizza not too long ago...It's a beautiful day, a lovely, perfect, juicy, sweet, appetising day full of vitamins and those other things that make you not die...A little bit cool, a little bit moist, a little bit cloudy...The clouds are nice and fluffy and mostly white, their underbellies just dark enough to suggest that, if they really felt like it, they could piss down on you, but they're feeling jolly so the worst one can expect is an occasional moistening...It's this sort of day that makes one acutely conscious of just how many plants are growing around here. One can smell them growing lushly. So, as I was saying, I was walking past the HUB...The Bush/Cheney '04 team from the College Republicans ('Why change horsemen in mid-Apocalypse?') were out today; as I was walking past their table, a sudden gust of wind took hold of their giant sign and blew it away to land face-down on the filthy earth. I raised my hands to the heavens and shouted out 'It is a sign from God!'

I had an excellent time lecturing today...We were very laid-back. I told my students how to 'prove' that Winston Churchill is a carrot, since one of the homework problems I'd assigned was a variation on the old '0=1' thing using matrices instead of real numbers...They seemed to enjoy it. And I gave them a quick introduction to mathematical notation, so I don't have to avoid using it on the board. Lenin is in the set {a,b,cheese, Lenin} but Lenin is not in the set R³, so {a,b,cheese,Lenin} is not a subset of R³. That kind of thing. And we actually did do some matrix algebra too...Good times. Good times.

David Bowie tonight. I'm so excited I'm about to vent bodily fluids from my every orifice.