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March 9, 2006
As promised, my escapist act of the year.
In less than 15 hours, I will be on my way to breathe fresh Damascus air. On Friday I'm probably going to chill out in the city... it'll probably be quite dead given it's the weekend there. Hopefully on Saturday, I'll run a day trip to Baalbek in Lebanon. On Sunday, I'll rummage through the Roman runs in the south of Syria, at Bosra. Monday through Wednesday will be in Damascus, with teaching sessions in the morning and some free time each evening!
Lots and lots of photos to come, I promise.
Until then, be good, and think of me trying to suggest to the waiter that I am in fact not from Mars, and that there are people in this world who don't eat Chicken, Lamb or Fish. All this, in Arabic.
Wohoooooo! Until we meet again... adios!
Some sticky notes:
Masa -- I've been trying to reach you, but just can't seem to get through. Tried the office, tried your mobile, visited your desk... you're a ghost! Mail me any more bright ideas that come to your head (Masa's already been to Syria last summer on holiday).
Kerry -- If you ever decide that just Seth isn't enough and need another hubby (i.e. in addition to the good Seth), count me in. Dr. Seuss is always a deal clincher.
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February 28, 2006
This is it... I'm ready!
It's that time of the year again. Time to muster up all the courage you've got left, and deal with whatever's coming your way. Time to spring clean those cobwebs in your life while you've got the guts to deal with them (for the arachnophobic among you).
Madhav suggests that it's time for "Zen". I agree... I'm tired of stressing, of wishing, of hoping that everything will be alright, and that things will work out if you really believe that it will strongly enough. I think I'm finally ready to let go. This is it... Zen... for better or for worse! I'll see you on the other side in a few weeks! If you hear from me before that... it's a different person talking :)
And if none of this made sense... forget it. It's 12:23AM and I'm feeling really glum.
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February 4, 2006
Run Vinayak... run!
Though I'm not as stressed as I was last year about the upcoming notification season, I'm not leaving much to chance. I've decided that the best time to go on vacation is at the very peak of the stress load. Kevin, for whom this is the first notification season has bravely volunteered to check my mail for me while I run off to Syria early in March to teach for the LSE, and then to India for three blissful weeks of 40 degree sun! I'm probably going to regret it, but hey... it'll be fun to be 14000 kilometers from all the action! I hope.
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October 27, 2005
Application season with Michael Palin via Lebesgue
It's time for those apps to get cracking again! This year I am applying to a larger base of schools... in line with my original risk theory (the number of applications is a monotonically increasing function of the number of grey hairs on my head). For now I'll keep quiet about it, and let's see how things shape up!
I also got my collection of Micheal Palin stuff from Amazon.co.uk today. I'm a big fan of his work as a travel writer/presenter. I've blogged about some of his stuff before here and here. His "Around the World in 80 Days" still has me in awe of the world! So I finally (after ages) managed to put together a collection of his out of print hardback books on each of his journeys - 80 Days, Full Circle, Pole to Pole, Sahara, Hemmingway Adventures, Great Railway Journeys, and Himalaya. I also managed to find a deeply discounted special edition DVD collection of all of them... which just made my day!
I also picked up a copy of Capinsky and Koop's book on Measure, Integral and Probability. Ziad had recommended it to me a while ago, and when I had borrowed a copy from him I realised I had finally found the perfect book to understand the fundamentals of Measure Theory... something I have been trying to do forever now. Sometimes you have to put your learning journey on hold, and wait patiently till the perfect book comes along!
Ten mintues with the book had taught me:
a. Exactly how the Indicator funciton works.
b. Why and how all finite, countable sets were null sets.
c. Why using b. the set of all rational numbers in [0,1] had measure zero.
Simple things to all you mathematically profound princes of the Economics world. Despicably elusive to bimbos like me.
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