travels & bartering
Apparently I don't need to take my General Exam before I apply for my master's degree. This means I'm in the market for a pre-seventeenth-century set of master's robes, in purple. Would anyone like to trade sewing for knitting? I can offer brown medieval-style silk gloves, if your hands are around the same size as mine (woman's small, but square rather than dainty).
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Roughly three-quarters of all landscape looks like some part of the Pacific Northwest. The area around Morelia looks like Oregon or Washington just east of the mountains: it's dry and sunny in a brown-and-green way, dusty but not desert, while the mountains loom in the background. I've been conference-ifying, which means going to lots of talks, learning bits of topology, failing to do enough of my own math, and going to restaurants in unwieldy groups. Morelia adds avocadoes, limes, superior popsicles, and arched courtyards everywhere. Saturday's museum-ing yielded sixteenth-century Jesuit barbed-wire-like crosses and a copy of Euclid, a family tree from the same period, a necklace with crystal skulls from some time earlier.
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Roughly three-quarters of all landscape looks like some part of the Pacific Northwest. The area around Morelia looks like Oregon or Washington just east of the mountains: it's dry and sunny in a brown-and-green way, dusty but not desert, while the mountains loom in the background. I've been conference-ifying, which means going to lots of talks, learning bits of topology, failing to do enough of my own math, and going to restaurants in unwieldy groups. Morelia adds avocadoes, limes, superior popsicles, and arched courtyards everywhere. Saturday's museum-ing yielded sixteenth-century Jesuit barbed-wire-like crosses and a copy of Euclid, a family tree from the same period, a necklace with crystal skulls from some time earlier.