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Some life update stuff:

*I am apparently going back to in-person school. For a month. Because traumatized fourteen year olds are notoriously good at transitions and understanding brand new routines they've never experienced before. I have one more week of full virtual and then who fucking knows.

**Yes, it's because of standardized testing.

***I mean, okay, it's because we wanna pretend we don't understand what a pandemic is and now that we're starting to handle it in the "able to get vaxx'd" population we don't give a shit about the "too young" population, but also like, apparently this past year has been standard enough to have MCAS so that's cool.

*I'm well over two weeks fully vaccinated, and in fact, just after I hit two weeks post-second shot, I flew to TX for a week to hang with mom and stuff. It was good times! It was an excellent mental disruption and means I'm definitely doing better than I was before I shook up my brain, but also my brain is still kinda trash, because, you know. Fucking traumatizing world event.

**I'm allowed to have emotions more often though, so that's good news.

**I am not allowed to have executive function.

*I turn 1,000,000,000 seconds old on Thursday, so that's pretty cool.

*I had way _way_ too many plans this weekend and did all but one of them so I'm happy and got a lot of social time outdoors and stuff but whew I am wiped.

*I need to start planning for my secret memorial day weekend plan.

*Pinewoods is happening.

**We had a three and a fucking half meeting about this on Thursday, and maybe we are done with the meeting part? Please?

**Normally we plan Pinewoods starting a year+ in advance and ramping up about six months in advance. It happens in a little over two months.

**I am tentatively very excited, but also not-remotely-tentatively very exhausted and overwhelmed.

*Had another presentations party, it was fun.

**I should put my slides up for this one, it was a very impromptu "what be change ringing" which I could definitely make better for the future.

*My room is a disastermess and I should work on that. But you know. No motivation or execfunc.

*I hope you are well and happy and stuff. <3

~Sor
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So, if you have a Facebook, and especially if you have friends who are high schoolers or college students on Facebook, you've probably come to realize that some people abuse the status update bar with trite and annoying statuses "raising awareness" in a bullshitty unaccomplished manner.

Well, Rackle posted a particularly cute parody today, that went like this:

Copy and paste this if you know someone or have heard of someone who knows someone. If you don't know anyone, or even if you've heard of someone who doesn't know anyone, then still copy this. It's important to spread the message. Oh and the hearts ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ For crap's sake, don't forget the hearts ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Rather than just "like" the post and maybe comment with a "lol", the wheels in my head started turning, and I connected this to the neato math trick I learned in Discrete Math yesterday. So I replied with:

Did you know that in any group of n people (where n ≥2), at least two of them will have the same number of acquaintances within the group (not necessarily overlapping acquaintances, but the same number at least.) It's true! I can prove it with _math_.

Rackle promised me a chocolate fish (that she would eat since I was far away) if I did indeed prove it with math, which led to a seven comment explanation (because Facebook is stupid and no longer allows carriage returns, I shit you not, wft.)

( Proof under here, for those who are less math-minded. )

Q.E.Fucking.D.

~Sor
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F1: "Hey Kat, what's a permutation?" That's a very good question, and if anyone needs seriously to ask it, I will have to write more mathy posts about such things. Vive le teaching!

ETA: Looking at wikipedia, they define this problem in terms of hand-shakes, which is a little more clear, as it's impossible to shake hands with someone without them also shaking back. So, use that if it's easier to visualize.