Journal for 2003 September 19
I don't know how long I should be writing. I lecture for the first time today, in just over an hour, and I have three hours to fill, sort of. I didn't write yesterday because I was serving a sentence for stupidity: after smoking with Claudia, I got up around 8 and in my stupor thought that I was 45 minutes too late to catch my train. I called a cab and ended up paying $55 (stupidity tax) to arrive at Olin 45 minutes early.

Claudia was panicking about homework until late last night. There are times when she feels like she just can't make it here. When she's just working on stuff, she makes it so obvious that she can do it all. But when the pressure mounts, or the assignments pile up, she starts putting things off, forgetting things, and getting scared. I was scared too, but only about getting sleep last night so that I can lecture today. (I told Claudia that if I overslept, it'd be the end of the world. I turned out to have nothing to worry about: I woke up almost every hour during the night.)

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