Several years ago, I was at a birthday dinner at a sushi bar and I sat next to a woman who was an artist, but she confessed that what she had always really wanted was to be a mathematician. I pressed her for details because I don’t understand math you don’t do at restaurants. And I’m glad I did because she then told me the story of her professor’s math problem, which I have thought about every day since:
ooh I needed this today!! xoxox
Was that my sushi birthday dinner?!