A Mess of Mathematics||Open

[Alexis Hawkings]

Math, math, math. Research, research, research. Fibonacci. Stormer, Thue-Morse, Cauchy. Sequences, the new obsession.

So many things to look at, and so little time to look at them. It was late at night, and Alexis was researching the growing controversy about a closed Internet. But she was also interested in the appearance of the Fibonacci sequence in nature, and and the application of calculus to abstract building techniques.

And there wasn't any time.

Even though she developed that sleeping schedule that almost never required her to sleep, there still wasn't enough time.

So she developed a schedule.
That didn't work out too well, so she went back to her mathematically governed chaos rules.

And now she was in a time crunch.
Despite having approximately 8 extra hours every day.

How the hell did I get myself into this mess she thought.

Over-scheduling, of course. All of this extra time had gotten her to take on more than she could handle, and that was saying something.
Because Alexis Hawkings could, and had, handled a lot in her twenty seven years on this green earth.

"So what tactic shall I try today?"
Sometimes it helped to vocalize her problems.

"Shall I write a program for finding the most optimal way to spend my time? Or shall I attempt to create a more accurate equation?"

Either one would be a good use of her time. Either one would be worthy of a couple hours of work. And either one could be a possibly permanent solution.

But which one, she thought, would be more likely to succeed?

That in itself would be worthy of more than a few hours of number crunching.

But right now, Alexis didn't have the time to figure out which one, because the pile of books on top of her was asphyxiating her. And that was a problem.
So Alexis set about returning the several dozen books she had taken off the shelves to their correct placement.

Introduction to the Application of Calculus in Architecture?
Dewey Decimal puts it in the 500's.

Ugghhhh, she thought, this will take forever!

So Alexis set about returning the books to their shelves. Despite her previous estimation, it took her only a short amount of time, leaving her with plenty of time to ponder the various ideas that had been bouncing around her head before going to teach her Calculus class.

That is, before someone interrupted her reverie.