the demise of our cookie monster through the humble vegetable

Today in class we had an earnest and frank discussion about the Cookie Monster( from Sesame Street), and his demise into dark days-dark days filled with "sometimes cookies," and "mostly vegetables" .The Cookie Monster has became an ugly, loathsome, vegetable-eating lie... i mean you just can't eat cookies(exclusively) for nearly 40 years of your life and then suddenly decide that maybe eating cookies is particularly unhealthy.It would even be alright for him to eat ecologically friendly nutrient-rich vegan-style cookies... why couldn't that be possible?... why do cookies have to be only sometimes food?
I lament the loss of our cookie monster, from the deepest depths of my heart.
And subsequently, mathematics doesn't seem so important.

Friday, October 2.

Today in class we are finishing up the questions from yesterday (questions 2,3,4,8,10,11,13,14,15,16 and all of the multiple choice questions from the sequences handout). Aslo The Friends of Rachel group is collecting food items for the Swan River Food Bank; so everyone should bring a can of tomato soup, or primo, or soemthing.