So there I was, happily reading the novel Omega by Jack McDevitt, one of my favorite writers, when I came across the following quote:

Collingdale had always found mathematicians dull, methodical, and unimaginative. Why anybody would marry one, he could not understand. He’d wondered why evolutionary forces hadn’t wiped the breed out.

I’m not sure if that is a joke on McDevitt’s part, or his repressed opinion of math. Every math teacher I know, when they tell somebody what their profession is, invariably gets the reply, “I could never do math.” Great, huh? So I’m a teacher (which is looked down upon to a large extent in this country) who reads and writes science fiction (which is considered juvenile trash by many people) with training in mathematics (ugh! math?).

It’s a good thing I get R-E-S-P-E-C-T from my students, since the rest of the world doesn’t seem too fond of me, haha.