Cardscov and Jasmine's progress log

[cardscov]

Man, it's been some time, hasn't it? Let's go ahead and have an update.

 

Jasmine has started to work for me in the tutoring center. This all her idea, and the payment will be proportional to the magnitude and consistency of her help in mental calculations and problem solving. This has seemingly boosted parallel processing, but it's also given rise to this strange effect. Jasmine's developing this calculator-esque number sense. For some reasons, answers to certain kinds of calculations just come up for her. For some reason she's just picking these numbers from my subconscious with seemingly no effort, but for her the task is mentally exhausting. I don't think it's from the calculation itself, but from asking why the answer was just floating there and trying to figure out that process. Oh well, we're just happy to be progressing in any sense.

 

Another thing is that she's taken a liking to physics. That dashes my inner hopes that Jasmine would become the first arachnid topologist, but I suppose it'll serve to make me a more well-rounded person. We've been approached with an undergrad research position in studying nanomaterials. She got super-interested and I'm sure it'll be quite the learning opportunity for the both of us. :P I joke around as if I'm a father whose daughter chose a line of study that I don't approve, but really I'm happy that she found a study that interests her.

 

Jasmine has been having lots of English-speaking practice, and her stutter is all but gone except for times where she lapses due to being overwhelmed in one way or another.

 

We're interested in a particular method of visualization that starts with taking advantage of the hallucinations brought about by sensory deprivation. You know how pressing on your closed eyelids brings about fireworks? It's about harnessing that and controlling it.

 

Work is busy and studies don't help much with it, but I'm happy with my life and wherever it's headed. I'm planning to try for a doctorate in mathematics, so we'll certainly have our hands full when that happens.

 

[^^_^^ It's Jasmine here, I'm doing my best to keep from just falling asleep here on my host's hand. I wish he'd force more, I don't think proxying and passive narration is good enough to keep a steady forward motion ''^''. I hope you're all doing very well!]

 

I suppose I'll stop the update here. Keep on keepin' on, guys.