Mochas and Muffins.

Today I had a presentation in math history about Euclid and The Elements. This wasn't too significant, although I didn't really know what I would say until midnight last night.

Now, this presentation was in my 9:30 class. Since I'd be presenting, I figured I'd shower before class. I am not an unclean person, I just usually shower in the afternoon, which still leaves me on a 24 hour schedule. I'd rather shower before I go hang out with friends, then go to bed mostly clean. When I wake up, I can pull my hair back and spend out the last of my 24 hours in class with people who matter less than my friends. The point is that usually I just have a ponytail for class, and don't overly concern myself with my appearance. Though I'm clean, I look normal. For presentations, however, I try to look nicer. So I had to wake up earlier than normal on this day when I already wake up earliest of the week in order to look more presentable than usual. I needed to shower, do my hair and makeup, weat contacts instead of glasses, and wear a nice shirt. When I was in high school, I would jsut put in my contacts every morning before school. However, I read better with glasses, so now I usually don't bother putting in my contacts for class. Since I was up late planning the presentation, I woke up tired. So I figured I could get Starbucks on the way to class. I supposedly gave up caffeine for lent, but today was kind of an emergency. (I was on facebook IM, and Dustin informed me he was giving up IM for lent. Leah and I decided to give up caffeine. I'm not doing really great. I'm not even Catholic. I need to be as dedicated as Dustin. Leah, I have failed.)

So I check my email before I leave, and my advisor emailed me and asked if I could meet with him at 9:30. No I can't, Dr. A, I have a class in which I am presenting on Euclid. I'll meet you at 9:25. So I leave my dorm and walk to Starbucks. As I walk, I realize I have not breakfasted. Usually I'll eat yogurt or grab a granola bar. I'm out of yogurt, and I forgot to get a granola bar. I'll just buy something at Starbucks. So I enter Starbucks and stand in the line for three minutes, at which point I realize that of the fourteen people in front of me, three people have placed orders. At this rate, I will be late for everything. So I exit Starbucks and continue the journey to class, as it crosses my mind that I still haven't had breakfast. I will be giving a presentation on little sleep and no food. And no water, since I need to buy more water bottles. Today is looking to be promising. At least I'm showered and wearing a nice shirt and makeup... wait, I forgot to put makeup on this morning, in my rush to get Starbucks. I'm wearing contacts (usually I just wear my glasses) but no makeup. Now I feel a little mismatched, but it's not too bad.

So I go to the advisor's office, talk to him for a few minutes, and off to class. My group members and I wing the presentation. Miraculously, it takes up the entire hour. We are good. It probably worked because we spent a good fifteen minutes trying to have them draw a geometric representation of (a+b)(a+b)(a+b). Euclid used geometry for algebra, it's pretty interesting. Today's geometry is little like the geometry that Euclid created.

Class gets out a few minutes early, and I know that down the road, inside of the College of Medicine, there is a Starbucks kiosk. I journey off to find this. I enter the College and am overwhelmed. The med school has this huge fancy lobby with alot of empty space, since they have tons of money and want to look impressive. I see a sign saying Starbucks with an arrow. I obediently follow, until I find this kiosk, and purchase a Mocha and a muffin. A banana nut muffin, to be specific. That's the way to go. Blueberry is an acceptable second.

I take my mocha and walk back to the College of Education, since my next class is in a few minutes. In this class, I happen to sit behind the two people who were in my presentation for the last class, so we talk about how glad we are that the presentation took up the hour. Then the girl that sits beside me enters. We exchange words occasionally. Today, however, I am quite the chatterbug. I talk about classes, school, my past jobs, what I think I'm going to do in college, foreign languages and the few phrases I can say in Chinese, Latin, the fact that I'm so talkative and think it's because of the mocha, and whatever else crosses my mind. I don't think she minded, though. Maybe I was psyched cause we did good on the presentation, or maybe I was hyped up on the mocha. I also was talking fast, which is something that I've been known to do. Then we played games in class all day in honor of the upcoming pi day, which falls on our spring break. We played Mono-pi-ly.

Mono-pi-ly is monopoly with pi. It's actually nothing like monopoly, but does involve alot of pi. There's a circle board that you move around. You role the dice, but you don't move the amount shown on the dice. Assume that number is the circumfrence of a circle. Figure out the diameter of that circle, round to the nearest whole number, and move that number of spaces. If you land on a question mark, draw a chance card, which asks questions about calculations involving pi, or clever things like, "What do you get when you divide the circumfrence of a pumpkin by its diameter?" "Pumpkin pi!" HA! Those clever math jokes. Like the six being afraid of seven, seven ate nine, oh the cleverness! Though that's more of a word joke than a math joke...

Either way, it was a good day and a fun day. And I learned an important lesson. Mochas make friends.