the habit of being

Katharine on her childhood:
When I was little my mother took me with her to AA meetings. She was part of the young peoples’ group. I sat at a little table with Ross and Marlon and drew pictures, I handed out chips to people. and I knew the serenity prayer. I always thought it was something everyone knew. and then I forgot it.
My father used to work at a gas station in Athens. When I’d go visit him he’d give me this green graph paper to draw on. and I remember standing outside watching those big feathery car wash things. i remember I had a pink flamingo shirt that I loved a whole lot back then. I wore it to Athens once and tied it in a knot at my waist and I wore all these necklaces and he said I looked really fancy or something. I was embarrassed.
Mom said I only went to that gas station once… and I was three or four.. wow.. I didn’t know I could remember back that far..

Katharine on Jenny Sunshine:
When Jennifer was here I’d look at her and think she wasn’t really there. I thought I’d just created her to be my friend. She didn’t seem real, but I knew she was. It was odd. I miss her.

Katharine on reality:
I don’t know what I’m like in real life. I haven’t gotten there yet.

Katharine on internet friendships:
yeah, I emailed her, which I will continue to do until she writes me back, and then she will go to my site and think I’m wonderful because I can make pretty graphics, and then she’ll be my friend and I’ll go visit her. doesn’t that sound great? I’m really excited.

Katharine on webpages:
I never said anything about content. I can’t do content. It’s too hard.
I don’t want a website with a theme.

Katharine on online journaling:
I don’t want to write about you. although I almost included part of this email I wrote you but never sent. but then I took it out because you would read it and know it was about you. and if I’d wanted you to read it I wouldn’t have not sent it. or something like that.

Katharine on herself:
I’ve always tried to tell myself that there is so much to me that no one else can see. This makes sense in relation to people at school because no one there ever talks to me; of course they wouldn’t see me as anything other than just some girl. I thought that by being online so much I’d corrected a lot of this, because I do talk to people. I do write a lot, but it seems like I never -say- anything I’m always saying I want someone to understand me, but no one will ever understand anything about me I don’t explain. If I can’t explain it, or at least somehow make it’s existence evident, there’s such a big possibility that it isn’t there at all, and all the depth I want to believe I have is just not real.

Those are all from my ICQ history file with James. around November and December. I’m ditzy, don’t you think?

I’ve made big Scrabble advances today. I beat my mother three times in a row and I improved my high scrore and I made two eight letter words. I’ll be a good Scrabble player before long.

One if my eight letter words was ‘dreaming’.

sarasvatiX: jeny be mah hot moma. her luv me nite n day
updowncorn: katy da big dady?

Today (March 14th) is National Pi Day.
You must find the circumference of every circle you come in contact with, write your findings down on a piece of cloth spun from gold, cut the cloth into 3.14 pieces, and sleep with them under you pillow for 3.14 days. Pi has played a vital role in my life to date. Chances are it has in yours as well. Take a moment to appreciate it.
It is my personal belief that pi does in fact repeat and all our math is bullshit.
(Except synthetic division. Now that’s just good plain fun.)

I prefer math with triangles to math with circles.

I know what zero to the zeroth power is! Sandy Bartholet told me.

From: Sandy Bartholet (sbartholet@sprintmail.com)
To: katharine (kat@sarasvati.org)
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:54 AM
Subject: 0 exp 0

Undefined. It took me a while to convince myself of this, because it seems like a total wimpout answer.

Any number N to the 0th power (N^0) can be defined as N ^ (i-i) where i is a positive integer. This is equivalent to (N ^i)/(N ^ i) . Now we choose i =1 for simplicity and we get N/N . Since 0/0 is undefined, that means that 0^0 is undefined.

This information will undoubtedly have many uses, from annoying your math profs to impressing interviewers. If nothing else, you can put it up on your web page.

Out of curiosity, did you get to my page through the peterme link or is there another link unknown to me?

-Sandy

katharine wrote:
>
> Would you be so kind as to tell me what 0 to the 0th power is?
>
> I’m sure such knowledge will come in handy someday.
>
> -Katharine

Does anyone out there have proof that it’s really 1?

That’s all the math info I can handle.

We (the symphonic band) got a superior rating at Festival. We didn’t play as well as we could have, but it was fun and I got that warm fuzzy music feeling so all is forgiven. We did, after all, get a one. (1=superior 2=excellent 3=good 4=fair 5=poor I believe)

I’m resisting the urge to delete.