What do we want? "Another blog post!" When do we want it? "Now!"

I moved into another apartment and haven't set up internets there (sound familiar?) so, of course, I made for Mars Cafe to bask in their A/C and iced coffee. Currently I am monopolizing a large table with all of my messenger bagged belongings that travel with me almost constantly: A black binder filled with college-ruled white paper, upon which a percentage of pages are covered in meticulously penned equations and musing; several tightly bounded Actuarial Brew study guides/review question thingys; a book or whatever; smaller pads of paper that I make lists on and my laptop. Even though I won't be using a few of these things they are on the table to communicate that I indeed need to consume the entire table that I hold hostage but you now know better.

The second "Summer of Andrew" has commenced and another list of goals has been prepared. At the moment I'm laboring through Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I've read a few of his non-fiction short stories and enjoyed them immensely. This book is one of his three fiction works (that I'm aware of) and the most highly recommended. However, it is one mammoth of a book. The copy I own has well over 1000 pages and 150 of those are footnotes placed at the back of the book so two book marks are required to properly maneuver through this work. At the moment of this post I'm barely over page 100 and it has confused me several times and has an overall disoriented feeling to it, but has also been very funny and well written (so many words I don't know, though). From reviews and endless r/books reddit posts, the general consensus is that after page 200 it becomes much more comprehensible and it was the intention of the author to make the book somewhat difficult to follow in the beginning. What was the point of telling you this? I dunno. It was probably about making a connection to math and how DFW was also very math inclined and the format of the book's structure was inspired by a Sierpinski gasket fractal and how I think that is insanely cool. There ya go.

So one of the bands I'm in is playing 80/35 and that is totally cool. Jacob Tyler Wolfgang is the name (the lead singer's name - www.wolfgangworld.com for those who are interested). I'm silly excited for this. Kaci, being the only SS in the vicinity of DSM, this is shout out is mostly for you.