Workety Work

First week over, I'm drowning in work. I sorta feel like nothing's changed, except I don't have my parents around any more, so I'm a lot happier these days. In fact... I'm very happy these days (comparatively). I got up before noon, and cooked myself eggs, tomatoes and sausages. I also had toast and fruit juice. It feels so incredibly good. I think now is pretty much the time to try to healthy lifestyle thing, since I'm all on my own and I can choose how to plan my time etc.

So, work is a chore, except this time, I can actually sense the significance of my work. Everything I'm researching and learning about, I can actually see why it'd be useful. This isn't like high school when I'm sitting in maths thinking "conics is stupid", this is like, "wow if I learnt this I'd be so much more useful to society".

It's like yesterday, how my friend helped me build a bike, because I was incompetent at reading bike-building manuals. We joked about how maths is impractical, because I took 2 lines of higher level maths, and he took one line of standard. Yet in the end, I still couldn't figure out how gears worked on a bike--- though in my defence, I could totally calculate how many rotations the gears did over x distance. My friend also told me this story about how a maths professor tried to make a cake, and the instructions told him to cut it in half, and apply icing to half of it. Apparently the maths professor pondered it for a great while, because it didn't seem fair that only half the cake had icing and the other half didn't. Then his wife walked in and told him he was being stupid, and asked, "how many ways can you cut a cake in half?" The maths professor answered, "well, infinitely, since it's circular..." And then my friend sorta broke down laughing, and I was left to figure out that you cut the cake with the knife parallel to the plane the cake rests on. I was kinda embarrassed to admit that when my friend described the story, I thought exactly the same way the maths professor had... though I probably would've applied the icing to the inner side of the cake as opposed to the top... not that it makes the situation much better.

Let's be glad that my life's ambitions does not involve baking cakes or pastries or anything like that.

Well, I think I've procrastinated long enough in writing this post. Better get started on all this work I complained about.