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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
I once read a cartoon or quote that said “A statistician is a person who can stand with one foot in a bucket of icy water and the other in a bucket of boiling water and say ‘On average I feel fine’!” It’s starting to get quite chilly in the mornings, so I rug up before I […] Sunday 18 Oct As Johnnies-come-lately to the Oxford church architectural scene, we Mormons must have decided to keep it simple and just not to even bother trying to compete with the sandstone/limestone spires and gothic carvings. So, instead, we have 1970s functional. This is not my preferred style, I must say! It kind of reminds me of the […] Saturday 17 Oct I did some more exploring today, in and around Oxford. In the morning I made my way to the little village of Binsey, which is close enough to Oxford to be suburbia and yet it has a sense of middle-of-nowhere-ness. In fact, the parish church, St Margaret’s, doesn’t even have electricity, which means there are […] A mid-morning raid was launched on my office today by a bunch of linguists. They staked their claim on various tables and chairs, seized the left-over computers, plastered their posters and calendars on the walls, and started filling the empty shelves. All the while they were casting longing eyes at my desk. I will concede that their attempt […] My subconscious makes the following assumption about my library. It thinks that merely owning the books implies that I possess the knowledge within them. This is clearly ludicrous. My consciousness knows this, but that doesn’t stop me forgetting that the point of possessing the books was so that I would read them and learn something from them. […] Wednesday 14 Oct I don’t really have all that much to say about conkers, except that there are heaps of them around at the moment, enough to justify the title of this post (if anything really could justify it!!!). This is actually another “quintessential” post, and to me conkers are quintessentially English, even though they grow in […] 12 Oct 2009 I’m not promising that I am going to “do” 12 of 12 every month (i.e., take 12 photos depicting my day on the 12th of the month), but at the moment things are a little out of the ordinary, so for this month, at least, I have taken a set of 12 shots representing […] Saturday 10 Oct There were some lessons learned today: Don’t step down onto a slippery rock while exploring an abbey (this explains the grazed and bruised elbow shown at right) Friday 9 Oct Over the last few days I have had encounters with one of the previous occupants of the office I am using. He’s a friendly fellow, a retired prof who still does work on a number of important projects. I have to confess, though, that he made me laugh a little to myself: he was […] Squirrels I remember being rather surprised the first time that I encountered squirrels, some 18 years ago in London. I’d been expecting something approximately possum-sized (BRUSH-TAIL possum, so big fella), and instead here’s this slightly overgrown rat with a feather boa tail and an overdose of cuteness hormones. They’re bouncing all over University Park at the moment, not […] |
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