Do you think it's dangerous / To have Busby Berkeley dreams?

[fflo]

What am I doing up? Well, it ain't the time change, I'll say that much.

Most of ya'll are sleeping right now. This right now, not that right now.

One reason I don't like to stay up too late any more is that I love staying up too late, and when I stay up too late I remember how much I love staying up too late & then I want to stay up too late too often. It's addictive. Fuzzy-head weariness around the brain inside the skull, feeling surreal; second winds, and thirds, and more if you keep it going; that timeless feeling when it's just dark and still, just like it's been dark and still for a long, unmeasured time, and it's still not tomorrow yet.

I stayed up late as a child so's to delay any dying in my sleep.

I stayed up late as a teenager, arguably cuz that was the only time I got real free space just to be.

I stayed up late in college, cuz that's what college is for.

I stayed up late in my 20's cuz I could, most of the time.

magic, in the middle of the night

oh, i know it's not that late right now, but it's a decently indecent hour for a school night

i got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle
as i go ridin' merrily along
and they sing 'oh, ain't you glad you're single?'
and that song ain't so very far from wrong

Comments

[fflo.livejournal.com]

thank you for that excerpt! i love it. stick to the bones of my head is so much what i was feeling in the noggin last night.

"increases"??

hey, i'll brag to you, too: i just got right all 8 of the problems the young Terrence Tao got (at age 7) when demonstrating his mathiness. (see interactive graphic pop-up window in this story, just sent around by one of our mathematicians: "Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime" )

i just found out that i should be calling this icon "nerd," not "dork". apparently i'm quite a nerd, a little bit dorky, and not much of a geek.

[paperkingdoms]

You're quite welcome. :^)

My hats generally start from the top down, and so start as just little bitty circles, and you add stitches [increase] as you work around and around until it's wide enough to be a hat. But it generally looks sort of like a floppy circle at that point.

He totally floors me. Just... so close in age, and so far in ability / accomplishments. I screwed up the clock one, because I read it as minute hand.

::smiles::

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I almost fell for the (somehow intuitive) minute hand myself. ha!

Smilka (the mathematician) introduced the article with "Finally, something in the regular press about a noncontroversial Fields medalist."

[paperkingdoms]

::nods:: That is true. He's oft been the topic of discussion in the grad offices of late; he's a little too close to our ages for it all to be admiration... there's definitely a "damn. he's only how many years older than us?" under current. But it's nice to see a focus on the not crazy. ;^)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

well, you know what they say: math is a young man[sic]'s game [sic]

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

What an interesting man. Thanks for the link.