Meme

[charlie_cochrane]

Stolen from erastes, alex_beecroft, the_sea_to, etc.

Ask any character I've written for advice, and they will provide it, advice columnist style. Your problems or fictional characters' problems both welcome. Management is not responsible for the results of following said advice.

Comments

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

mzcalypso wrote:

Mar. 30th, 2009 08:26 pm (UTC)
Dear Dr. Stewart,

I am also involved with a mathematician, and as you may have noticed, individuals with such active minds can be distracted by ideas while in the midst of other activities. Send one downstairs for a hammer and nail while you're holding the picture up against the wall, and an hour later you're still there and the genius is busily reorganizing the toolbox.

Do you have any helpful suggestions on how to prevent a mathematician from going off on a tangent?

Love & Kisses,

Exasperated Writer

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Dear Exasperated Writer

You're knocking on an open door here. How often has Orlando gone for the post and then I find him working out its velocity through the letter box? I struggle to suggest a cure apart from going with these people, holding their hands and making them keep to the primary task.

Ms Cochrane has suggested an electronic tagging device, whatever that may be, with which she threatens her 'engineer other half' when he strays from his duties. It would administer a small electric shock should said person wander off or be too late reporting back.

Fondest regards,

JS