Get Cubed

Was hangin out with one of my buddies, Paul, who consequentially is one of the most intelligent people I have ever met. Anyways, he posted
this pick of me from last night.

Source: http://paul-bone.blogspot.com/2011/09/geeks-being-geeks.html

matt += food;

Soooo. Well, I never posted about me getting out of the hospital, but I was there for three weeks, and was released about two weeks ago. I have been going back to work and research, but I have also been eating more. I have weekly doctor appointments to run blood tests. I have also been enjoying cooking more, and ya know, it's not that hard and it's not boring. It's not hard cause I'm not trying to be the next Master Chef. I need to keep eating, as my ultimate goal is to regain more health. So, for all of those that cared or offered to come out to see me, or sent me messages, or were legitimately concerned... much props.

BTW, I had no idea that I would acquire so many books while being in the crazy-house. Much props to my advisor, friend, and professor for bringing me a copy of Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach. I have not completed it, but got just under halfway through while being re-fed. I must say, as much as it sucked to be held against my will, I needed it. Technically, I was only against my will for one night, but I have a feeling if I were to have tried to discharge myself, I would have gotten another Section 12 (involuntary) status; thereby preventing me from leaving. I must say I did meet some really cool people. Cool people are interesting. That could have been said in reverse, interesting people are cool. It is a commutative relation.

I did learn two things when in the hospital:

• If you carry around a large book about science, you might be perceived a genius.
  
• If you can access facebook via a proxy, you might be perceived as a hacker.
  
• Sultanas are seemingly the equivalent to raisins in America.
  

-Matt

3lection

Wow! Election day today, and they do it on a Saturday! How much sense does that make! Seems logical to me. However, their voting is compulsory, you have to do it or you get fined! That seems kinda dirty, plus the candidates are ranked, so you have to prioritize when you vote. The latter being absolutely hilarious to me, because I feel the government of the US thinks we are all twits and completely incapable of counting beyond 5, none-the-less capable of prioritizing the candidates! You all remember the hanging-chad deal right... because, well the rest of the world, I assume, was laughing too.

I went with one of my vegan friends, this morning, to look for a house. We liked both houses, and then I went with her to vote.

This afternoon was awesome. I went in to Uni, and then the professor took me home for dinner with himself, his wife, son, and another professor, his wife, and their daughter. Amazing vegan dinner! Seriously awesome and hard-working Indian cuisine. Their son made some amazing tea, and I must say, he was incredibly intelligent, cool, and just straight-up. He acted much more mature and intelligent than I ever would have at his age, mega cool. I think he was like 10 or so, totally impressed me as being just incredibly normal and intelligent, and he loved my use of the word "awesome." After the appetizers of vegan coolness (artichoke dip and a mushroom pate), we had an awesome dinner, and watched some of the election results on tv.

Later, my advisor, his son, the other professor's daughter, and myself played the boardgame, Ticket to Ride. But of course, we played the Nordic edition, after-all my advisor is from Denmark! The professor was on my team, and we kicked serious anus! Later in the evening we went outside to visit the possums in their tree! That validated what I saw in a previous blog post. I did in fact witness a possum previously, and not a drop bear, or wombat.

Then came dessert! It was a vegan-awesomeness apple crumble with custard deal. The other professor's wife made this concoction. Amazing. It's times like this that being vegan is mega-rad.

These people are so awesome. I'm lucky to have found an advisor who is much more than an academic, rather a friend/surrogate-family member. He actually cares for me beyond school. The same dude who hooked-me up with an oil heater, and also the same wife who tried to help me find a place! Such nice people. The world needs more caring individuals as such.