"How I wish I could calculate pi" analogs...

Solution 1:

My spirits I brighten by leveling a mountain of decrepit milk maids furiously canoodling with lords of the manor.

Solution 2:

Martin Gardner quoted one for $\pi$ which I like:

How I wish a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics.

Solution 3:

Maybe have a look at:

Ivars Peterson's MathTrek

Pi P H I L O L O G Y

Regards

Solution 4:

At the Feynman point:

Calculate perimeter: eightieth, ninetieth, hundredth: endlessly!

Solution 5:

Of matrices becoming usually singular consider likeliness reasoning, given sufficient hugeness (unlike merely randomness), he said, so I do.

Solution: http://oeis.org/A048651/