Well, I've finally decided what to do. Come Monday, I shall actually ask M if she's settling for second best by going for me. And I'll be able to tell by her response exactly what the case is. I mean, it's almost inevitably going to be "of course not", but it's the tone of that "of course not" from which I'll be able to tell.

Anyway, enough of that. I'm so sick and tired...Of this whole situation. I wish it would just sort itself out. Favourably. I wish it had happened last month. Or this month, with different people. Oh well.

Anyway, I promised Smiths a key, so here is the transition from initials to pseudonymns...

C - Melanie Campbell
K - Beverley Turner
L - OJ
J - Joan Aniston
M - Zippy

That's it, isn't it? Oh well, if there's any more, they have no name. Apart from my best friend at work, who shall be known as Lubo. So there you have it. It's too complicated at the moment, but hopefully it will be easier soon, once I mention them in my stories...

And I also promised to provide BWTT with some explanations about the mathematicians, so I shall...Even if it pains me :-)

De Moivre was French, and is famous for his theorem of expressing the square roots of negative numbers and such like. This involves substituting the equation z = RcosA + isinA. I'd go into more detail, but I shan't...

Gauss (not Gaussian, as I wrongly mentioned before) was Austrian, and is most famous for his Gaussian elimination method. Basically, it's a bit like simultaneous equations, only with three terms (x, y and z) as opposed to two. Oh, and he came up with a mathematical proof "under a moment of inspiration" when he was ten years old. Go figure. The guy was a nut.

Fibonacci was probably the greatest mathematician of his generation. He came up with the Fibonacci sequence (which is basically: a, b, a+b, a+2b, 2a+3b etc...Basically, the sum of the previous two terms makes the following term.) I don't know a lot about him, but the first statement was copied from my textbook...

Einstein I'm not too sure about. I'd define him as more of a genius in the field of science (and physics in particular) as opposed to maths. However, I remember reading he came up with a good few maths proofs in his time, so I decided to include him. Incidentally, Einstein was a refugee...Imagine turning Einstein away at the border! I can't picture it. Yet, we deny so many people the chance of being another Einstein, of a chance to better themselves. It's such an unfair world. I should be grateful for what I have.

Anyway, I really need some rest. Imagine typing this at this time! Dear oh dear...

Good evening folks.