Imaginary Holidays!

[alexiscartwheel]

For those of you where unaware, yesterday was my most favorite math-related holiday: Pi Day. (Are there other math related holidays?) March 14... 3/14... 3.14... get it?! I was introduced to the glories of Pi Day by my high school math department. None of my teachers ever gave special Pi Day assignments, but some did. My brother once had to write a poem about pi. Although I don't in general approve of having your older sister do you homework for you, I decided to help him out since it was a truly stupid assignment. (The poem is also truly stupid :D )


π Poem
pi is good
i like to eat it
yum yum
crunch
circumference baby, yeah
pie
pi
mmm
crunch
three point to the one four
dawg
smackin my lips up and down the ghetto
anthem
pi
word
square it
then you’ve got
square pi
gotta get a new dish
splatter
crunch, burnt pi
blech
pie
π
my home slice


Yesterday is also to date of another amazing imaginary holiday: The Eve of the Ides of March. *cue spooky music* The Eve of the Ides of March is very simple. The Ides of March is March 15 (Today! Happy Ides of March!), so March 14 is your (or Caesar's) last chance to seriously beware. Gotta take those warnings seriously.

But the best holiday of all? March 14 is also my birthday! Unfortunately I had to get up early and go to work, as usual, but to make up for it I took a nice afternoon nap. (I'm old and frail now; I can take naps when I want to!) I got birthday cards from my Dad and my Grandma in Columbus and a package from my Mom in Phoenix. She wrote "Happy Birthday!" all over the priority mail box, just in case I couldn't tell what the package was. I opened it an found a darned pair of socks (mine), a book she already read (I Capture the Castle), and a CD she already burned for herself (Sara Bareilles). The "real" present, two cute new spring shirts, she hid under the other random goodies. Danielle bought me a toy sonic screwdriver, which is kind of awesome and hilarious. :D

A group of us went to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in the afternoon. It's not a huge museum, but there were some good things to see. I found a painting of St. Jerome--I apparently have a good eye for him, because I always pick him out immediately in every art museum. The impressionists are my personal favorite painters, and they had a few good paintings. Unfortunately the only Renoir wasn't hanging. :( We had homemade pizza for dinner and Cold Stone ice cream for dessert--calorie ridden, but oh so delicious. In the evening I was really tired, so we came back home and watched Marie Antoinette, which I really enjoy. So all in all, it was a good day.

Comments

[sea_thoughts]

Hahaha, fantastic! :D A suitably weird poem for that weird number. Why was it called the Ides of March???

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! As a present, you can request a fic from me, any kind of fic!

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think that "Ides" just means it's the middle of the month. That's all the Ides of March really was, the middle day of the month of March, until Caesar had to go and get murdered then.

How about something Ginny-centric? Or just Harry/Ginny, that'd be awesome too!

[sea_thoughts]

Well, anything Ginny-centric necessarily has Harry/Ginny in it. ;)

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

So true! :D

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty insane coincidence. Or a fateful omen. Whichever.

So speaking of caramel sundaes and pie... some ice cream pie would be fabulous. Or just ice cream. Or pie.