NCAA Pool

Here is what happened today:

1. I found out that if UNC wins the NCAA tournament, I win my office pool.
2. I got my doctoral committee together. I will hopefully set the date tomorrow. The defense will be at the end of April, I think.
3. We won our intramural basketball game, the first game of the playoffs. I hit 75% on my threes, and played the point without any turnovers (and a ton of assists).

Also, have I told y'all that I have been watching a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? I really like it. I'm not sure how much you all would dig it. You might, you might not.

Hear, hear about the real estate prices. Have you had any luck finding a place? We should all be so lucky as to have a home as nice as Little Bitty's.

This has turned into quite the adult weblog. By "adult," I mean responsible. I do not mean what Stephen was thinking.

So, to answer your earler question: you are quite correct in assuming that this is not a tenure-track position. They wouldn't have me. My official title is "Preceptor," and it is essentially a post-doc. I got the position primarly for my teaching, although I am expecting to get a lot of research done over the next four years. I have a 2-2 teaching load, which is really pretty reasonable in the math world.

Wisconsin is playing today in the NCAA tournament. I have mixed feelings. I want Wisconsin to win, but I picked North Carolina to win in my office pool. I guess I won't be too disappointed either way. I was bummed that West Virginia lost yesterday, though.

Now, let's make some room for stories about female roommates and massages. Unfortunately, I don't have any, so someone else will have to supply them.

Rainbow

I think that you all will like this.

Catherine Keener

Welcome to the weblog, Little Bitty!

I made an offer on a condo. They want $309,000, I am offering $295,000. Either one is a whole lot of money, and I'm going to be in a lot of debt. I think it will be a good investment, though.

Oh yeah: that's for a two bedroom condominium - 810 square feet. Boston is expensive. I should know if I get it by 10:00 tomorrow morning.

I've been hanging around with really hot, older women all day long. I spent the morning with a woman with whom I will be working at Harvard. She is 40, but looks like she's 30. Then I was looking at properties with my 34 year old realtor. She looks like Catherine Keener.

I'm done.

From Boston with Love

I'm writing to you from a cafe in Boston. I just got in tonight, after just getting in from Alabama last night. I'm a little travel bug.

I'm happy that Patrick and Stephen found the "comments" feature. You are making good use of it.

I invited Tamra again, so she should be joining us soon.

So I am staying at the hostel here in Boston. I am staying in a co-ed dorm with five women.

Here is how you use a semicolon.

I'm in Boston because I want to find a place to live. My realtor just emailed me saying that she won't be able to set much up for tomorrow. This could be annoying, since the only reason I flew out to Boston is to find a place to live. I'm willing to give her another chance, though.

"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

Question

Okay, please answer the following question: who is taller: Stephen Colossal or Patrick Stupendous?

Do you like the way I fit two colons in one sentence?

Also, I don't know what it feels like to be gay. Alex, you should know by now that I am straight. I like women.

Job

Hey Alex!

It's nice to see you here.

First, the bad news. I might not get a chance to call you back tonight. I need to write a lecture that I am giving in Alabama this weekend. It's my first serious conference, but it won't be anything bad. It might be a week or so before I get a chance to talk to you, because I am going to Boston almost immediately after I get from Alabama.

I'm going to Boston because I got a job there. I am going to be working at Harvard for the next four years, and I need a place to live. Hopefully I will find one next week.

Who did you pick to win the NCAA? I have Illinois, Georgia Tech, UNC, and Syracuse in the Final Four, with UNC beating Illinois in the final game. Sorry I didn't pick Washington.

Later!

Trapper, here is how you have been popping up in my Madison conversations recently:

-You appeared in my friend Aaron's job talk that he gave to universities. You were a calculus student who was struggling to find out how to deal with functions.

-You appeared in one of my job talks. You were hosting a dinner party, and I had to figure out when I need to leave home to get to your house. It was an introduction to delta-epsilon proofs.

-Aaron and his wife Emilie named their router "Trapper."

-Emilie doesn't believe that you exist. Rather, she thinks that you are my alter ego. Moreover, she is convinced that I don't ever eat anything - the only time I eat is when I am in Trapper mode.

Aaron and Emilie are obsessed with you, I think. You spoke with Emilie on the phone once (although she doesn't consider that proof that you exist).

I tried to call y'all tonight, but I only got in touch with Tamra. This is a quick way to post messages to each other throughout the day.

Word.