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Kids, peer pressure is awful. Never give in to peer pressure. Today I gave in to peer pressure and, instead of going straight home after classes, I was dragged to a talk about mean field games. All because I couldn't say no ~~and was bribed with pizza~~.
...Okay, well, it was interesting because it's the first time I heard a maths seminar in English and I'm happy to say I understood just as much as I would have if it was in Italian. Which means I understood nothing at all, because lol I don't know about PDEs and who is Nash and what's this equilibrium everyone talks about. :D I kind of gave up after the first half and stopped taking notes altogether, and why do mathematicians from all around the world insist on using handwritten slides and a projector from before the war, idgi.

Oh well. EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH ONCE UPON A TIME because I say so and because it's about fairytales and because the sheriff is hot and the protagonist kicks ass. It's kind of cheesy, especially the parts set in the land of the stories, but I got my sister to watch it so we make fun of the conspicuous CGI together. And I am convinced that the Evil Queen and Snow White had a torrid love story, let's see what the next episode has to say about that. Also, hot sheriff. Kick ass protagonist. She had a chainsaw in the last episode and I cheered.

Also, Castle keeps having meh plots this season but who cares, everyone is so cute and I love them sfm. Please get together before you die of old age.

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Oh, I gave a seminar presentation on Nash equilibrium stuff a few years ago.

I think Once Upon A Time sounds interesting, but I can't watch Jennifer Morrison for that long at a time. Her character on House bothered me enough for a lifetime. xD

IRIS YOU NEED TO STOP HATING THE CHARACTERS THAT I LIKE.

Oh wait. She's a woman. W/e, you need to stop hating on women characters altogether.

I LIKE SOME FEMALE CHARACTERS. ~~Like one or two.~~ Cameron bothers me on multiple levels though. XD

Tell me more of these levels you speak of.

She's self-righteous, shoving her views and her way down people's throats whether they ask for it or not, refusing to accept people's choices regarding their own lives if they don't match up with her views.

She's pretending (or actually trying, idk) to only want to help people, and uses it as justification for everything she does, whether it ends up helding people or hurting them.

And on the flipside, as soon as someone treats her that way, she blows it out of proportion and feels attacked.

I think I could sum it up as she has higher standards for other people than she does for herself?

That, and the whole drama about wanting to be with House. Or not. Which is not a personality thing, but still bothers me about the character.

LOL, that actually makes a lot of sense. I'd have to sign that. IDK I WATCHED HOUSE A LONG TIME AGO, MY VIEWS THEN ARE PROBABLY A LOT DIFFERENT THAN THEY ARE NOW.

But all in all, yes, totally see what you mean. :)

Urgh, all those ugly equations tho. I get the general principles but when the equations are brought up I feel like running away.

Wait, she was the brunette doctor who dyed her hair in later seasons? ~~lol I didn't even recognize Pam.~~ SADNESS THO, BECAUSE I LIKE THIS SERIES A LOOOT.

I know. It was the main reason why I learned LaTeX. Equations in equations in equations, bit of a nightmare. XD

Yeah, she was (/is ?) Cameron on House. Maybe when I've caught up with all the bazillion seasons of Criminal Minds and all the other shows I want to watch, lol.

Hahaha, likewise, only I had huge matrices. >> LaTeX is a saviour, even though for me writing in it takes about as long as chiselling the equations into stone.

I was never much into House because I'm squeamish and can't stand the ~medical part of medical drama but judging from your comment up there I didn't miss much. Even though you hate all my favourite characters in CM so I'm questioning your judgement. /o/

I'm currently reaquainting myself with it for thesis writing purposes. Boo. XD

Oh I'm sure a lot of people like her, just not me. I'm picky. What what, who are your favourites? I only hate Elle, and make frowny faces at Garcia. I was nice about the rest.

Weeell, my favourites are Garcia and Reid and I know you said you don't hate him but come on, mismatched socks and DW fanboy, HOW CAN ANYONE ELSE COMPARE? /fangirl

CASTLE ♥ EVERYTHING IS MARTHA AND NOTHING HURTS. Except ofc hello can the writers maybe please get the stick out of their behinds and FINALLY GET A MOVE ON. There's only so much UST before it turns into a bad sitcom.

I've been trying to get a hold of Once Upon A Time but IDK WHY BUT ALL MY SOURCES SUCK. Maybe because they blacklist the search words. Hmf.

THIS, PLEASE. BUT YOU ALREADY KNOW MY CAPSLOCKY FEELINGS ON THE SUBJECT.

WOULD THIS HELP?

THIS HELPS MUCHLY TYVM

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL ICON

THANK YOU!

IKR IT IS MAGICAL

MMMMMMMMMMM IDK WHAT TO SAY TO YOUR EMAILS :|

I'LL RESPOND TO THEM TOMORROW WHEN I AM AVOIDING WORK \o/

...LOOK I HAVE A NEW CREEPY ICON :D

I LIKE YOUR DEDICATION AND WORK ETHICS

WATCH OUAT

YOU ARE PLENTY DRUNK

Your icon is creepy.

TY :3

Hmmm, other people have been saying Once Upon A Time is good, so I may give it a go when I have some free time. ~~The fact that you said the sheriff is hot has nothing to do with it at all.~~

I haven't been keeping up with Castle in a while, but if there's any particularly good episodes for this season, I might check them out too.

Yay! ~~It's a valid reason.~~

There hasn't been any really good episode, just a lot of really good Castle/Beckett scenes and Martha scenes here and there. IDK about who your favourites are, but it's enough to keep me hooked.

I've been watching Once Upon a Time, and I generally like the idea of it (and Jennifer Morrison's acting is better than I predicted, though I kind of hate whoever's in charge of the costuming/set department for the fairytale flashbacks - they just don't feel imaginative enough for me, and they don't seem to complement the real-world scenes very well which kind of throws me out of the show every time they switch back and forth).

Honestly, though, I've got to stop watching it with my family - they keep talking through parts and asking questions when I'm trying to listen lol. It seriously took me until the second episode to even realise that the teacher was Snow White because I was so distracted.

On that note - do we know who the ~~very hot~~ sherrif is in the fairytale? Or has that not been mentioned yet?

Yeah, the costumes are, idk... not a fan. In the first episode I was too busy following the plot, but in the second episode we already knew that the curse was coming, so yawn.

It's haaard to tell who's who because everyone's looks are so different! The sheriff hasn't been mentioned yet, I'm sure of it because I looked him up after the first episode in case I had missed it and it said that he's a ~mysterious character and we'll find out later. Personally I think he's the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood (because Red and her Granny are around already, and because we saw a wolf when Emma crashed into the signpost) while my sister thinks he's the woodcutter from LRRH, which maybe makes more sense if he's one of the good guys.

I wondered if he was the wolf as well - he seems like the guy I would cast in that role. Maybe that's why they're holding back on who it is? It's supposed to be a twist that he's in a "good" role? I could see him as the woodcutter as well, though. Glad I didn't miss anything, then. :)

That was something I liked about the second episode, they did start laying out some questions to be answered (like the last scene with Rumplestiltskin and the queen - I really liked that we didn't know if he'd set it all up or not. It's nice when characters fall into gray areas).

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