Caius the Bigger

Decided to try the meme where you describe what you do using only the ten hundred most-used words.

"Math"...wasn't on the list!

I study things about numbers, and different ways of adding them together and making new numbers, and ways of using numbers to talk about space, and which things are different and which things are the same.

In a few years I will have to find something new about numbers, that no one has shown before, but for now I learn things that people already know. I have to learn lots of things to know how to find something new. Most of the things I study, it's not easy to see how they might be used in normal life, but I find the numbers beautiful and interesting in themselves.

When I'm not learning myself, I am helping other people learn. I have three groups of students who I talk to about how to tell how big something is, or how fast it is going, or whether it is going up or down or right or left, or somewhere in between. Other times I sit in a room where students come and ask questions about their work and I try to answer.

More descriptions along these lines via st_aurafina here.

So yeah. I'm a PhD student in (pure) math. And I TA for Calculus 3. And work in the Math Help Room.

I have a JLU Amanda Waller. She is amazing! And looks like AMANDA, which means she's a completely different mold from everyone else.

Also, she has a green ring, which does not seem to have a lantern on it, and is canon as greenygal discovered on Youtube the other night, but...it is distressing.

(...is it possible, by the way, that Task Force X is not on Youtube? I know I have the episode somewhere in my apartment, but I figured it would be easier to find there than here. *eyes apartment balefully.)

Now she just needs a Squad. (I have a Vixen. That's it for people who've ever been in the Suicide Squad, and it's the wrong continuity Vixen at that.) I may perhaps have bought-it-now a JLU Clock King and placed a bid on a Deadshot.

Sadly, or perhaps fortunately, the Suicide Squad members tend not to be the kind of folks who get action figures.

I am intensely annoyed at DC for not making me a figure of Captain Boomerang senior, especially since Owen has *two*, one of whom is basically Amanda-scale. It's just not the squad without Digger!

In other DC cartoon news, the latest Brave and the Bold episode was good times. Ollie got to be awesome innit! And there were both Catwoman and Huntress in the main plot--females, plural! And from the list of people I wasn't really expecting to see on TV: Woozy Winks. (Drooling over Catwoman. *sighs* I still kinda squee'd at Woozy riding Plastic Man, though.)

It continues to entertain me that Ollie and Guy only ever run into each other in circumstances where you do NOT get the expected fistfight, either because Ollie is Silver Age-y (here) or because Guy is, well, Silver Age-y (GL/GA). Or because Ollie is in the hospital. Or dead.

(Sad commentary on Ollie's funeral: Guy gave his eulogy. And said some of the nicer things that were said about him. Yeah.)

Speaking of Ollie, I didn't start watching Smallville for him, and I'm unlikely to start watching it now, but this picture of him and Hawkman (apparently they are bringing in the JSA now!) makes me deeply, deeply happy:

( Ollie. Hawkman. Mace. Table. Crossbow. )

...and in much sadder news, ( my comic shop is going out of business. )