I may have mentioned it before, but I live for puzzles. Not the jigsaw kind. Rather, the kind where you need to work things out in your head, or follow clues to the end. This is (and I like to think, not too pathetically) something which actually makes me really excited. In Girl Scouts my favorite badges were those dedicated to tracking and decoding. I had a love of math because I could feel the same sense of completion at the end of a difficult problem. (remember Sideways Stories from Wayside School? I love that book.)
Anyway. Someone was really sweet to this girl named Lena on Valentines Day (or at least, sweet in the way I would love for someone to be sweet to me) and took out the chalk and made a little game/sidewalk card for her.
It starts out with:
Lena, wait till you see what I did to Dupont Circle
I haven’t been able to follow it all the way around, and it’ll be gone before Tom gets a chance to fix my camera (I miss my Lomo more than I miss most people). Anyway, I think it’s the best thing ever. So, Lena, if you’re out there. I say stay with that friend forever.
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1 Chris // Feb 23, 2004 at 12:45 PM
I was a failure when it came to math – literally in the case of Algebra I – but in college I took several semesters of logic. I loved it, despite the fact that it was hard and regularly kicked my ass. So I know where you’re coming from.
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