So it's hard to know whether to put some cash in CDs or wait a little while for rates to go even higher up, somehow. But all of this rests on the extent to which I want to actually commmit and buy an apartment next summer, which seems like something of a stretch still and hardly worth it in terms of actual maintenance issues again.

The other thing is I've been so wrapped up in my mathematical crusades (which probably is not the best word out there), that I have been feeling increasingly envious of those who have been doing nominally better than I have, whatever that means. It's the growing pains again of someone who's been doing this long enough to either be deft or numb.

Speaking of numb, it's always a bad idea to miss a week of practice, see too many stains on the inside of your men, but then nonetheless proceed to tie it too tight. Those headaches are hard to bear, especially when you go up against a prancing but deadly Sensei. Not much of this practice time left, and I should really go jogging on occasion again. That takes a different kind of will.