Another character on the scene: Fidelity. She's someone I knew in high school - she was in my class, but graduated a year early, and now is at UO with me. We're in the same math section this term and she's majoring in physics.
On our first math quiz, there was an extra credit question asking for the capital of Canada. As it happens, I was the only one in our section to get it right. (Ottawa, if you're curious.) As I was discussing it with Fidelity she laughed about how she's terrible with geography and asked, if given a map of the U.S. and a periodic table to fill out which would be more complete at the end?
(The map of the U.S. I don't know the lanthanides and actinides!)
Fast forward to this afternoon. I was having an early dinner with Dancing Physicist and, in a lull of conversation, remembered the question. I asked him which would be more complete, in his case. We got to talking about which states would be harder to label and geography in general. After several minutes on this train of thought he quizzed me on how many provinces in Canada. I let him know he'd brought the topic right back to where it started - and as we were finishing up our analysis, I saw Fidelity walk in. How circuitous!
I got her attention and she came to sit down with us, and then it was a great big fun nerdfest. We talked about geography, astronomy, chemistry, physics, school, and then went outside and identified Venus in the sky. I don't think I've ever talked to more than one enthusiastic person about science at the same time! It was incredibly satisfying.
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