Post #1: Things I'd like to say to people's faces or on Facebook, but have just barely matured enough not to.

I'm no longer a relativist, but there is such a thing as conflicting truths where both truths are equally valid (which, of course, with more scientific knowledge, might not be valid at all eventually) in different contexts. Take for example the theorem that the sum of the angles on a triangle is 180.  And the theorem that the sum of the angles of a triangle is greater than 180.  Both are theorems and equally valid in their own contexts: one in planar geometry and the other in spherical geometry.

Math has helped me hate people less. (Also, having strict control over which people I am forced to interact with has helped me hate people less). To you, it may be true that money made from value devoid pursuits and popularity is indeed the ultimate measure of success and worth. To me, it may be true that you're douche. But we don't have to fight about it. Let's go into our own very special fields and do our own math.

Not to say that I don't enjoy the fighting over the "This is Jane" pictures that's happening on my Facebook feed.  It actually gives me googles of giggles. Please continue. 

A Love Song

I never was much for all the usual shit that people seem to live for. I wasn't sure for a while if I'd really be able to engage in the one thing that always gave me a boner: learning.

But the haze of the first bit of life seems to finally have cleared and what is left standing is my tenacious wonder at the universe. Learning, watching other people learn, seeing what weird, smart, silly, profound things they can come up with makes my brain tingle.  Makes me stop digging my heels in about this whole life thing and just throw my weight into it.

Life has a purpose and joy, and it exists in the insatiable curiosity to see what else there is to learn. Not in competition with others, but just to see what I can do with what I've been given (which just happens to be a lot).  And to see what others can teach me.

And so, I am happy. Consistently, every day, content.  And every night, excited to wake up the next morning to see what else I can fix, break, fix again.

Yay.

I want you to heal, body.  I know I haven't always wanted it that way, haven't always helped you the way I should in making that possible, but now is the time and I want you to heal.  I know that you are not always beautiful. I know that you'll never be widely admired.  And I've decided, today, that that is okay. I still want you to heal and be exactly the body you were meant to be.  Whatever that means. Just that I want you to run - like a well cared for engine - turn energy into production the way you ought to.  Not because you're beloved for your form, but because you make something and that's your purpose, ineffable as it may be to me. We'll live together for as long as we have in this inbetween space - you conducting all our business here on Earth and me as an interpreter. Something else will conduct. We'll be weird forever; we always have been. Riches and glory are unlikely. Pain and rejection is assured. let's enjoy what we can anyway. 

I wrote some dramatic hoohaa here that must not be allowed to exist even digitally any longer.  It was worth it just to write this here a year later. Any excuse for a laugh.

edited: October 7, 2015 when I should have been doing my work.

"American Education: Problem Solved" or "Thank you Google Docs"

Groundbreaking research has shown that underachieving, underperforming, impoverished school-aged American children can now be saved.  The unlikely hero? Educational testing reform? New class size legislation? Enlightened budgetary changes? Targeted, skill-based structural changes in struggling schools?  By golly, no! No need to waste precious time and resources thinking through all that rubbish!  Not when we have google docs!  Now, American public school educators can create an unlimited number of google docs (short for "documents") in record time at no cost to the American taxpayer! These google docs can be accessed by teachers any time, any where, allowing administrators to require teachers to utilize time that would have otherwise been wasted twiddling their thumbs while on the toilet during a particularly lengthy evacuation or feigning earnestness during a dreary, overwrought bonding experience with their loved ones.  Research has proven a causative relationship between sheer number of google docs completed by teachers and the success of their students! Researchers stated, in an interview with the author, "Eureka!" In accordance with precedent in the American public educational system, that was more than enough for policy makers to institute what they are terming the "google doc initiative".  Administrators are enthusiastic.  States one America mid-level administrator who asked to remain anonymous, "justifying my existence just became as easy as choosing a pre-made google doc template and finding a really pretty background for it." 

English quibbles

There are some words in the English language that are completely contrary to my neurology and do not convey whatsoever their semantics through their phonetics: limpid, incipient.  

Many of you may not know that I am awesome.

Naturally, I can't just come out and tell you that I'm awesome, so instead, I am going to post a series of pictures and status updates showing off all the awesome things that I own, have done, or have been awarded that make me more awesome than you are, all the whilst letting you know that I am # blessed, so grateful, or humbled though clearly I am not humbled because if I were, I wouldn't be posting shit about them on Facebook, and it would just be so much less annoying if I just posted it and told you that I was awesome and I thought I was awesome and you should think I am awesome too.  That is all.