claire_chan

According to Dr Grabb, I actually do sound decent! :D That does not put me off the hook, though. I'd better practise enough to be at a quality considerable by the Great Philadelphia Youth Orchestra!

Agh Mr Britcher just sent an email to the entire concert band to say on Friday we have yet another concert. x_x Temptation for committing harakiri rising.

そして、 the due date for my Russian paper about the fur industry has been put off until Wednesday.

Better run off and practise a bit more. I'm the Oboe Performance Major of this family, after all. I'm making myself good enough for even the Mighty Orchestras. Speaking of which, WCU's orchestra conductor asked to read my fur paper. It seems my papers are actually relevant most times, at least this semester!

Oh, and it seems I can make everything relevant. For example: I need Pre-Calculus so I can take the Amazing Calculus and be allowed into the Mighty Physics class at the level I prefer. I knew enough about anime to connect with the random smelly otaku from the exciting car ride in which We Had An Oopsie.

Just wanted to let you [pl] know after that mess I'm not currently planning my unfortunate demise at the moment, 大丈夫！I'm just sitting right now and practising what I'm supposed to.

After my health disinclined me to continue, I began upon maternal insistence to compose the next Russian paper. I did not know tomorrow is the 30th, when the next paper is due!

LJ-cut to keep your flist full of sunshine & lolcats.

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Actually, that wasn’t so bad! Particularly since I avoid writing the words that would reduce me to a sobbing mess. I like my mad skill at writing.

Aaaagh. I went to the piano to check what pitch the ringing in my ears was, to find it a really, really, really high G, a couple of octaves above the top of the piano range.

Also, I have decided it probably behoves both of us to remain ‘single’ for now. Somewhat unfortunate, but good for me in that I do not have the “Volly crutch” in my studies, and good for him in that he does not have to babysit me as I pass through the Seven Gates of Academia.

Oh, bad, most tinnitus sufferers are like 55...? Probably no good to keep reading, but here I go anyway.

I shall be exponentially pleased when my books come in! I have the Manga Guides to both Physics and Calculus in the mail. Plus an interesting-looking Fibonacci book that did not cost that much extra.

Mathscience is pretty cheap, provided one actually understands it.

I feel rather guilty for basically getting my parents to do my dictation.

I know they won't so readily come to my assistance when I take on the Calculus... [yes, pre-, I know, but everyone has to start somewhere!]

Oh, but, even without their help, I think this time I'll be really able to pwn in that class! I really like the professor. Plus, I know some great mathematicians! [Plural? Really? Whom else do I mean?]

Plusplus, the Calculus does not care how I feel about it, which really gives me free rein to finagle that course.

Last night, AKA twenty minutes ago, I was thinking to myself of what a big dent into my schedule I was making with Calcumulus.

Nigh big enough to make fitting in Physics difficult? And my precious Oboe Lesson?

How bothersome.

As it turns out, I'm starting to love the hard-hitting Mathematics [if I ever weren't to begin with]...

I'll just see, when the Big Year turns over, and it's actually twenty-ten.

This is kind of a stomachache deal.

I wanted to mention how I'm nervous to claim skill in Logic when I have yet to score well in any Mathematics course as of yet...

Well-read, probably the only claim I can make.
I adored Lewis Carroll's Symbolic Logic? Furthermore, I was horrified by the Combinatorics book somewhat later, with the abstract claim that everyone's related?

Fixing this by the delightful medicine of Wikipedia, as a primer.

What am I doing? Amn't I a music major? Shan't I just satisfy myself with MAT101 or whatever the other music majors take? Shan't I focus hard on Music Theory, if I were so interested in the abstract thinking for which pure maths calls?

You see, I think I may actually be decent in this...
Volandum aside.

I was just doodle-doodle-doo'ing my way through my Bach and Sammartini assignments, when I suddenly noticed the sudden Christmas craze... The Fall semester has yet to end!

What is all this mad Christmas rush all of a sudden?

こんにちは。My father transported me to the Chester County Library, at which I picked up Tim's recommended The Third Policeman. The introduction goes on and on about how this is an Irish Book, sort of like what James Joyce wrote.

I remember disliking James Joyce. I am trying to focus on the explanation it is also like Voltaire's Candide or Swift's Gulliver's Travels, both of which I enjoyed.

I'm also trying to resist the temptation to return to the giddy world of Pure Mathematics instead. (Safest for me just to refer to the subject as mathematics so I do not have to concern myself with math[s])

Why?, inner-Volandum inquires.

:| I should pick one and stick to it? Hrm.

Fine, next, why do you 'resist the temptation' of returning to pure?

I'm trying not to emulate him that much. It's bad enough that I'm rather attracted to pure mathematics, a field which nearly no one else enjoys, or so it seems.

Were you not busy attempting to date me more, though?

...

♥ Exactly the kind of music I would enjoy studying!

I'm going to practise this piece hard tomorrow. And/or go to the library for the book Tim-sama recommended. And/or read more maths!drivel. (I keep misreading Emblems of Mind as Ramblings of Mind, ehee.)

I know! I can bring my maths!drivel to the library! It's ingenious.

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I have been eating minimalistically as of late so that I can really enjoy the Thanksgiving dinner my parents are preparing.

Do any of you [pl] yearn for meme?

Dr Grabb assigned to me a Sammartini Sonata which I adore, even six measures into the first movement. I'll come back with more of a developed idea once I practise this fully. Brubs.

Backj. It's just exquisite. I picked majoring in oboe performance for a reason, and such a hilarious oboe professor to teach me for a related reason. The band migraines are but a small price to pay for such an amazing encounter.

Okay. I have sat about in this "Single" status for about half a year. Around p50 of my current book, I have determined I essentially have no choice in this canon. When I puzzled over this to The Male In Question probably a few months back, he similarly had no tips.

Poor Volandum, but not really. This situation, Chelly's "bad romance", has no other choice I can understand but to continue. The imposing pure mathematics...

I'm not especially rabid in fangirling: I understand there are other entities in this world with whom I may entertain myself. However, by my own choice, I do not wish to "entertain myself with" anyone else.

I wanted to put as my Music as Lady Gaga's song, but I hear a cello piece in the other room which I adore and would better illustrate this entry. ♥

Stunning. Just, absolutely stunning.

I'm not one of those sorts who can "be put to sleep by a hefty Topology tome", to quote The Female Specimen: Cecil's mother's solution to his insomnia. [He woke up the next day with his foot bruised since he kicked the book repetitively in his slumber]

In fact, I shy away from attempting Algebraic Topology, Geometric Topology: Anythingic Topology. The world should be big enough for my never encountering a situation in which I should need it. I think.

How puzzling, looking at what Wikipedia says: I have claimed liking Geometry and very-possibly Set Theory, but shy away from Topology, a field which utilises all of the above... ETA: I could claim blankly not understanding any of it, but that would be a lie, and I nowadays absolutely cannot stand lying. I phale at lying.

I also don't know if Prof. Moser was mimicking me in spelling it [verbatim] Pre-Calculus, or if that is how he standardly spells it. I think it's the former, but have no way of telling. I have read in the Dale Carnegie book Win Friends and Influence People that when a person likes you, he changes his mannerisms to emulate you... [more or less, NOT at all verbatim]

I was listening to my Poulenc, reading my Emblems of Mind: Inner Life of Music and Mathematics book, when it occurred to me I have become one of the Voices on the Internet one may Google who Talks About Stuff Like Atheism, Mathematics, Russian, and their connections.


My new Pre-Calculus teacher, Prof. Moser, is adamant on everything being connected somehow, and learning Pre-Calculus in the way advocated by the Youtube videos, i.e. suggesting it isn't all about getting the right numbers, but Understanding the Concepts. I do not remember exactly, but the inner-Volandum [who persists despite his RL exit of interactions with me] stoutly states that my "Understanding the Concepts" is just a part of the study of upper mathematics and the success in this study. The inner-Claire-chan pouts and whimpers "What's the other parts, Volly?" and then revises that in the IM to "What else is in your study of Upper Mathematics?"

Inner-Volandum muses and provides a thought-provoking answer. Claire-chan muses and revises her life.

Prof. Moser's also somewhat against it being referred to as Pre-Calculus, since there is no Pre-English or anything similar. Actually, there is Pre-Kindergarten...

Gah, I must be tired, my d's and g's are getting mixed up. My Cyrillic studies are biting me!

[Yay clarinet in this recording n_n I don't know what invoked such ire from my Sibling]

I thought it meant like business junk and such, in which I have limited interest. Indeed, as verified by the Mathworld website which I remember being linked to thrice or four times, but only recently rediscovered.

*helpless shrug* I sense the Pure crowd is full of snots, but that area is where the interesting parts of Mathematics lies. I can't help feeling so attracted! I know the Certain Other is a Recumbent on that side of the mathematical spectrum, but... I am still so fascinated...

I face a similar issue with this as the C.O. does. What on Earth does one do with qualifications in Pure Mathematics? Would I really have to teach? I can't stand teaching.

Perhaps move on to study Physics? Everyone and their second uncles seems to study that. I will eventually do so, myself, to secure the scientific aspect of my Degree...

I hesitate from Topology, having heard so much about it: oh, what are you doing? Algebraic Topology... *clicks on it regardless* Ooh, Knot Theory interests me a bit.

...I phale at life.

I do not have time to explain myself.

I'm looking forward to next semester so much. Recounting of events: ( Now that I have time: )

My father agreed to get me to the University for Prof Moser's office hours. :D Although he grumped it was rather early.

If I were a university professor, I would hold office hours rly early, myself. One has to be dedicated to the study [of whatever it ends up being] to hear from me.

I should probably brush my hair. It's nigh required for long-locked females in standard cultured American society.

2000
I finish the Theory assignment which I haven't lost thrice, thank you very much [eta 2120: I can't stand ruining perfectly good pieces of music which I have heard too many times. Then again, it wasn't Mendelssohn's violin concerto which I've played ad nauseam, but a part of his fourth symphony...]
0600
wakeup
~0730
speak with Prof Moser wrt mathskillz [office hours 0700-0900]
0930
Aural Activitie
1030
H1N1 Injection
1200
Lunch [sushi, likely]
1500
Symphonic Band