Away for a few days

[mumsisdaughter]

Going to York tomorrow, coming back on Friday. It's Jenn's birthday next week but she's off work this week so I'm going early to give her her birthday present and take them out for a meal.

This is her present:
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Comments

[iskra667.livejournal.com]

lol! I'm not teasing, I'm engaging in healthy masochism because I would have looked like a real idiot if you'd not spotted 'lightning'! And I like to remind myself of it again, and again, and again... :D

[valoa.livejournal.com]

I'm engaging in healthy masochism...

I should not tell you about my favourite science books...

[iskra667.livejournal.com]

The first time I went to Uni, I studied Maths :D I know all about elaborate masochism. :D

Unless you did not mean the act of reading those books was masochist!

A Louis-like friend was reading a huge book about 'maths explained to literary people in literary language', I had a look for fun and it was the ultimate masochist book: the complicated concepts of maths explained in the complicated language of humanities, not the clear straightforward language of maths. And the arcane language of humanities without the subtleties/relevance/debatability (I made this word up) of them.

[mumsisdaughter]

Maths was my favourite subject to teach, though I admit it was to junior school children. I enjoyed it that much that I took a 2 year Diploma from the Mathematical Association. The thought of using literary language to complicate the beauty of symbols, equations and relationships is shocking: it can't do justice to the maths or the written word.

I am in awe of anyone who can tackle university maths: I remember struggling to make sense of differentiation and calculus. I know already of your wonderful handling of the written word, now I bow down to your maths brain!

[iskra667.livejournal.com]

Thank you, it's sweet :) Sadly, my geek!boss does not, lol :) Sometimes, it pisses me off being a jack-of-all-trades in a specialist-biased world. I admire people who are brilliant at one thing, but jack-of-all-trades are useful too.

it can't do justice to the maths or the written word.

Indeed, it did not! It sounded verbose and obscure. And I do love interdisciplinary things when they create new perspectives, or make things clearer, but this book seemed to only create obscurity :)

It's cool that you loved maths enough to study it for fun :) To be honest, university maths is useless unless you're really really good at it. Otherwise you don't get it enough to do anything useful with it. But I still think medium level maths is very good, it teaches to think with subtlety but no flourishes, and I suppose all the more when you have to explain it back to other people!

[valoa.livejournal.com]

I know. That's why I said that you are intelligent :) - Like me! Just kidding!

I used to specialise in maths and psychology, too and I was just trying to be annoying just to revenge on you!B-)

See see! I am not that good!

Btw, ,Unless you did not mean means that you think I mean the act of reading those books was masochist or what?

* I start asking you questions again!!! *