Category Archives: Life in Indiana

Design, for Life

Recently, I’ve been considering the careers I didn’t try; that is, it didn’t occur to me to try. Fashion designer architect therapist Early music % musical theater (well, this did occur to me…) fashion historian cartoonist statistician In my freshly … Continue reading

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summer apartment

Sitting here this evening, life suddenly seems simple, manageable. How can this have happened? Is there really something to the idea of a smaller, more modern, more manageable apartment?? The kitchen is clean, we get very little mail, and we have yet to need the air conditioning. (Go north-facing summer apartment!) Perhaps there is also something freeing about not having bothered to unpack a fair bit … Continue reading

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The News

The news hereabouts is rather calm these days, which suits me just fine. I’ve been celebrating “I don’t have to take quals!!” week. ( There was this: Chicken seaweed spicy soup with “rice blood pudding”? Which cooked all day long… With … Continue reading

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The 3rd of July

I tell you Indiana is magical in the summer. My yard is forest, my garden the best garden in the whole world. My reading/study courses are more like math at St John’s than I ever thought I’d find again. In … Continue reading

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“A Real Mathematician”

(For mysterious reasons, I am posting this about 2 months after it was written… But the fundamental sentiment hasn’t changed. <=) I have passed my last qualifying exam. I might be a real mathematician!! What is that: a real, live … Continue reading

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What’s a Granary?

This is a Granary: I’m not entirely sure why you care…. or why I care, for that matter. But one might ask, “how does it work?”. I’m so glad you asked!! Along comes a truck. This might be a small, … Continue reading

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What’s happening on campus today?

Half the campus has gone home for Easter. Things feel strangely deserted. But over on the Engineering Mall, there’s something along the lines of a mass execution in Nerf Wars going on. Various bright orange accessories, a couple of kilts, lots of … Continue reading

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Dickens and Contradickens (ahem, “contradictions”)

It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m sitting by my favorite “2 dollar” book cart, at the confluence of a trumpet trio across the street, an guitar and dulcimer group down the block, and a foursome complete with upright bass singing out … Continue reading

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up so floating

Activities in which I have engaged in the last 48 hours which do not involve sleep, food, church, or a dvd player: zero. How do other people manage to be so functional? (ok, disclaimer – I may have succeeded in … Continue reading

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