Black, White, Rainbow

Alex: Yeah, I have to see a doctor about these migraines.
Me: I think it's all in your head.

This is why mathematicians should generally not write books.

Find the interval for which the distance that twice a number is from seven is always less than or equal to eleven.

Ridiculous. Instead of attempting to decode the problem, I elected to make a list of stuff I want in my Drug Awareness notebook. Here's a sample:

-white top hat
-white dress pants
-long white gloves
-rainbow trench coat

I suppose some of these merit explanation. For as long as I can remember, I've wanted one of those ridiculous long black trench coats that are neither warm enough nor cool enough and serve mainly to hide things under (watching The Matrix in English last year did not help this in the slightest). However, I really don't think that black is the creepiest colour someone can wear; white wins by a landslide.

In the last year, I've managed to pick up two very important additions to my monochromatic wardrobe. I bought a white blazer (blazer-like thing, really) in France and a black coat in July. And, apparently being blessed with the kind of good fortune a Scot should appreciate, I paid about $30 for each.

Several complications arose out of this. One, I swiftly realized that the best (creepiest?) thing to wear with a white blazer is white pants. Two, Kelsey had actually already (something like half a year before) purchased a (nicer) black coat, and you know it's unthinkable that two people in a group should be wearing black coats (no, but really. it would be a little odd). Three, I figured that the only thing neater than a black top hat is a white top hat.

Unfortunately, rainbow trench coats do not seem to exist. It's really too bad: just think of all the symbols something like that would combine.

Later in math, I was given back the notorious questionnaire in which I compared zero to the forces of darkness and the portal to a parallel world of emptiness.

Q. Why does zero matter when solving equations?
A. How can there be something without nothing? Once you begin to count, to understand the concept of 'some', you must follow that up with an understanding of the concept of 'none'. Zero is this concept.

made you look!