The Life of a Mathematician

I'm back in town and working on stuff for a job I'm applying to. More details later.

I've also created a board game, which is mostly constructed. It involves wizards, lizards, and giant frogs. It was influenced by the game Heroscape and the books Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini, but bears little resemblance to either. Perhaps if the wizards had dragons and the lizards and frogs were Urgals. Changing the creatures to Urgals wouldn't be that hard, if I had miniature Urgal figures -- the only reason they are lizards and frogs is because that's what the dollar store had available. Dragons, however, would seriously complicate things. Don't they always?

Last night I had two dreams that I can remember. The first involved me setting out to visit my old college for Alumni Weekend (which in real life is either coming up or else just passed) but ending up at the place where I used to go to summer camp instead. I got there late Thursday afternoon, and it turned out that the camp was having Alumni Thursday that day, so it worked out great. I was very tired when I arrived and wanted to just to take a nap, but they insisted that I participate in a bunch of games outside which went late into the night. Then I had to find a cabin. The new one that used to be the nurse's station was full, and they said that I couldn't stay in any of the original ones, making vague references to an evil swamp. So, I had to go find the *other* new one (which doesn't really exist). It was located deep in the forest, well outside the real boundaries of the camp, and was rather difficult to locate in the dark as there were no paths leading to it. I got to where it was supposed to be, but there was nothing there but a coffin. Someone else was with me, and we were arguing over who would get to sleep in the coffin, when we realized that there was already a dead person in it so we couldn't.

In the other dream, I was taking orders at Taco Bell, which is what I have to go do right now.