I'm not really sure my political science professor knows what she's talking about. I'm not really sure what any of my professors are talking about—I think sometimes they get a little too excited by the material. But today she reminded me of her now famous triangle-posing-as-a-circle example. It goes like this:

She draws a triangle on the board. "This is a triangle." She draws a circle around it. "Now it's passing as a circle, and it's on its way to the Circle Ball." Circle Ball—the puntastic redundancy is hilarious to me. I really don't remember the point of the example, but today when she was going back over it, she brought the circular triangle to the Circle Ball and then stripped the circle away. Some kid in front of me said, "What kind of party is this?" The moment was nearly rofl-worthy. But she quickly decided that the triangle was now at a doctor's office and a dossier was being made—a reference to Foucault.

I don't know why I just told you that story. I'm not good at telling stories, and I'm not even sure if I got it across smoothly. Oh well—it is what it is.

Today was a busy day. I couldn't sleep anymore, so I got up at 6 a.m., showered, got breakfast, and went to math. I don't know why I go to math some days. Today was just review; I should have slept in. After math I had about a half hour to get to Arps to meet my interviewee for a Fisher, Ink. article. I forgot to turn my voice recorder on for it, so I have no quotes. Better luck next time.

After the interview I walked over to my friend's dorm because I told him I'd help him with math. So we went back to my dorm and honestly spent about four hours on math. A good portion of that time was spent laughing at this inane juxtaposition of "of" prepositions: "The rate of change of the distance of the spot of light..." I think that was what it was. All I know is we had to read it about five times to understand what it was asking. And we still didn't get the question. We never did get past the "of" sequence.

Anyway, after that I left for political science, which in turn made me want to share the circular triangle story with you. See? It's all connected. Which reminds me that circular reasoning works because circular reasoning works because circular reasoning works because...