i used to be cleverer when i was younger ..

no, i am not jεnna burkε from the bachelοr, for i am far uglier and i do maths.  you can find her here instead.

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while loading up my web browser today, the mathscinet search page appears .. and suddenly i'm confused:

ye gods: what article did i want to look up?
i'm so forgetful .. what could it have been?

i mean, lately i've been thinking about this theorem and how to extend it,
but there's nothing in the literature that fits .. i checked already ..

then it occurred to me: it's the start page.

why is it now the start page?!?
but then i remember ..

[[[ rewind to yesterday ]]]

i'm loading up the web browser, intent on looking up a reference and the statement of a particular lemma, and so my start page appears ..

.. which is gmail.

absently i log in, and there are emails to reply.  so i start replying, wondering what to say for one particular message ..

.. and 20 minutes later, i realise that i never ran the mathscinet search!

*argh* ..!

an idea immediately comes to mind.  clicking on "settings," i switch my start page to mathscinet.

well, if i forget again and do what my browser tells me to do,

then at least i'll be directed towards mathematics,
which is a more productive form of confusion and misdirection ..

[[[ fast-forward back to today ]]]

i sigh and press Alt-F4, and the browser window disappears .. but then i remember that i wanted to check my email.

i'm about to click on the firefox icon, but my LaTeX is suddenly staring at me .. so i give up.

i probably don't have any new mail .. and if i do,
it's probably not important: i'll do it later.

*sighs*
*grins*

sometimes my past self is too smart for his .. er, my own good .. (-: