Apple Cider

Dear blog,

Obviously, I'm not writing very often these days. This is because I am very tired just about all the time. Earlier in the semester, I would experience, perhaps, four days each two weeks where I could not do very much. Now it is easily working in to the sixth day after chemo that I don't get much done and I never stop being tired. The only thing getting me through now is that the end is in sight.

I just got done getting my fourth to last infusion Thursday. I'm still just about incapacitated. In fact, the only reason this blog is being written is that Vivian has offered to take dictation. I have been exploring potential Ph.D. dissertation advisors at Ohio University and Kent State University. It is not ideal that I should be sick and studying while exploring this but there is no other option. I have narrowed down my possible fields of higher study to topologically driven dynamical systems and characters of finite group representations. The motivation for the latter is that characters of finite group representations have applications in chemistry, which I do not know enough about. The motivation for the former is that there is a large and active research group at the university on the subject.

If Joyce Stock is reading this, Vivian told me about a cake that you make made of layers of thin wafer with some sort of cream between the layers that softens the wafers. I would like this as a get well from cancer dessert. I plan to be in the Cleveland area in late December.

Regards,
Ian Hogan B.S. A.A. C.P.Lf.P.