I got up early yesterday, to prepare myself for a long week of good study. Little did I know that Monday had it in for me. I droppend and smashed a bottle of olive oil at breakfast (all over my new trousers), I missed the bus as I got lost looking for the ticket station (that I’ve been to many times). Got to college only to find out that I needn’t have gotten up as the Prof. wouldn’t be in ’till 4:00. Sweltered in the heat trying to figure out the Myhill-Nerode and Chomsky-Schutzenberger theorems.
Any person with half a clue about formal language theory should, at this stage, be decrying me as an idiot. The Myhill-Nerode theorem is easy, it’s undergrad stuff. However, I was trying to understand the relation between the Myhill-Nerode theorem and the syntactic monoid of a rational language. That again is quite easy. The equation is V*/~L (where the L is in subscript). Unfortunatly it dosn’t say anywhere that the / operator is different from the normal meaning of the / operator (the right quotient operator). Futhermore, I’ve still not seen an example of how to divide a set by a relation, which is what the first operation suggests. I suppose I should keep looking…
Here’s hoping that today is a bit better 
Aidan, don’t give up on those trousers if the olive oil stains don’t come out after the first wash. They make take several launderings to completely wash out. But DON’T, whatever you do, dry them in the dryer until you’re sure the stains are gone, or they will set and you’ll never get them out. This advice should be easy to follow if the dryers at St. Jordi are still broken, as they probably are.