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So, I am posting here after not posting in a while. I am mostly curious to see if my PHP code concerning dates will still work in 2007. I deleted all comments made in the last 300 days (there were about 17,000 of them). I assume they were all spam. If I accidentally deleted a real comment that wasn’t spam, I’m sorry. If you do a Google Image search of my ceiling fell in on me, my pictures are the first to appear. So I graduated with a B.S. in mathematics. Maybe that means I need to update my userinfo page (for those of you who don’t know, that page was supposed to be an imitation of LiveJournal’s userinfo page, but they have since changed their design). After graduating, I managed not get a hired by CITES or Frasca. Probably better that way. I would have hated full time employment. I still work at Beckman when I’m not too lazy. I’m working on a art project called Beauty and Sin (unfortunately, facebook has also since changed their design), and on the Meditation Space website. I’m going to India in October, but I haven’t really told my mother yet. I need a new mouse. This one has started making my single-clicks turn into double-clicks. And because text is boring, yet images are amusing, here is a picture of a quaternion Julia set: 
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I’ve started working as an artist’s model. Abby’s Life drawing teacher asked her students if they knew anybody who would want to be a model for the class and was specifically interested in males. Apparently not many guys want to show up nude in a room full of mostly girls. I decided to apply. I’ve done it twice (both times for Abby’s class) and so far it has been fun. I have managed not to get any awkward erections. It has occurred to me that I have become a low-paid whore. While I’m not having sex with anyone, I am in a real sense selling my physical body. I had to sign a legal waiver giving up any rights to artwork that was modeled after me. I suppose in some sense anyone who works for money is really just selling themselves and their time to someone else. But in those situations they are usually selling some skill, or energy in the form of labor, or intelligence. I am just selling my body. I think it’s fun. Three days ago I was talking to a girl who acted like she knew me when I had no idea who she was. Turns out she was in that drawing class and had spent several hours staring at me naked. I kind of finished an art project for Joseph Squier’s class. It’s up at http://www.nicholasduchnowski.com/graffiti It is a collection of bathroom graffiti from on campus. I presented it on Thursday for class. People thought the idea was great (and funny) and the technical execution of it blew them away. The designers didn’t think too much of the design, though. I am a bit worried/confused about how to learn design concepts, but I think I’m going to talk to Joseph Squier about that and write more on it later. I have to go to my guitar lesson now. Here are some funny things the professor said while I was modeling. I managed not to giggle at any of them, but Abby did at a few: Pay attention to the negative space between his legs. Don’t draw all that hair! No, that’s way too long! Take out a stick and break it in half. Shorter sticks are better.
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Classes have started. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Hopefully I will be graduating at the end of this semester. I changed my major concentration from Graduate Preparation to just Mathematics. All I have to do is pass one math class and I’ll be done. Aside from that, I’m taking several art courses. I’m hoping to put together some things to make a portfolio and apply to the graduate program in the art school. Although, I’m not sure that these classes will help me much to that end. It would probably be better for me to work on my own and develop art pieces that all relate to a central theme. I haven’t ever finished my LiveJournal project. Well, at least this way I get a chance to impress Joseph Squier on a weekly basis. My math class will be easy. I can tell by the people who are in it. I feel bad making such judgments, but I think they are true. There are a lot of girls in this class (especially sorority girls), and the guys seem more like frat boys than math geeks. In the more difficult courses (like analysis, abstract algebra, or differential geometry) there are only one or two girls in the class, the guys are really nerdy, and everyone is either an engineer, a grad student, or a grad prep student. Easier classes, like number theory, non-Euclidean geometry and history of calculus, tend to be populated by students who want to become math teachers, and the classes tend to be a lot easier. It’s rather disappointing that requirements to become a teacher are easier than other areas, and that students desiring to become teachers are generally less talented and less intelligent (and often less dedicated) than student going into other areas. I think this trend is not limited to the math department. I’m not sure that I want to be in school. If I wasn’t in school, however, I’m not quite sure what I would want to be doing. I made a newer version of KAMScript and have a bunch of ideas for more things to add. Apparently Abby and I are teaching a class on it. Joseph Squier looks ridiculous with a goatee. A lot of people want me to do things with their websites. I don’t feel like doing it. I want to work on my own things. I should also be doing my math homework right now, but I don’t want to.
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