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A New Challenge
New Challenge I will not write about the New York governor scandal. That is my promise to you, both of my readers. If you've been listening to/watching the news lately, I'm sure you've heard enough. So I won't go there.
That, my friends, is what we in the business refer to as class. I've got it in spades, and I'm giving it away like candy at the Rose Bowl Parade.
Onto more important topics.
I got promoted a couple of days ago on the website that I've been writing articles for - www.suite101.com. I am now the official Feature Writer for the Math/Chaos Theory section.
Now, you're probably wanting to say to me, "Isaac, I didn't know that you went to school for math!"
That's right, you didn't. Because I didn't. In fact, I really don't know that much about math or chaos theory, but I think I can fake it - I know I've done a decent enough job so far. And now that I've spent a couple of days looking into the topic (this is what happens when you have a job where you don't actually do much of anything), I've come to realize that it will afford me some pretty incredible opportunities to hone both my writing skills, and my "knowledge of random, useless stuff" skills.
I just finished writing my first article as a Feature Writer, on the subject of Fractal Geometry. It was kind of exciting, and made me want to write more articles on fractals and on continuous, non-differentiable functions.
Does that make me a geek?
If it doesn't, I'm sure I could find something else to try. Perhaps my recent passion for memorizing the periodic table would do it (the hardest element to memorize, in case you are wondering, is Pa - Protactinium).
Or how about my recent obsession with using my lunch breaks to study my copy of The Federalist - 600 pages of two-hundred-fifty year old political theory. This stuff is priceless.
I'm sure I'll write more on this later, but tonight, I feel like I've already been far too productive for my own good. I need to eat some triscuits, drink some cream soda, and stop thinking for an hour or so.
Thank you for your time. If I had the money, I'd pay you to read this. I promise.
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