• On Life and Love

    Magic in my hands.

    “Do you feel the magic in my hands when I touch and rub you the right way…?” Johnny Gill, “Rub You the Right Way”. I know it’s a good day when I: Have just so little sleep that everything is funny. I mean everything. Spend five solid minutes in lab laughing at my partner’s reaction to Oranges and Lemons’ “Soramimi Cake”. I almost pissed my pants. (Hey, then we could have collected it and analyzed un-moldy urine!) Give a loud-ass whoop of joy in the middle of the hallway when my lab partner and I were told we could just throw away the plastic bottles (formerly containing urine) that we’d…

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    Snooze

    It’s that time of the quarter. The time when my alarm clock seems to mysteriously fail at critical times, when I can’t remember if I even turned the damn thing on before I stumbled into bed, and when I feel a need to set at least two alarms and hide one of them, just in case I’m sleepwalking. This morning was the second morning in the past seven days that I’ve overslept when I needed to be up and working on something or meeting someone. I don’t feel as tired as I recall being last year, but I’ve had enough emotional and physical problems and breakdowns over the last few…

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    Two links and a question.

    First, Stobor has done what the Rose-Hulman webmaster has refused to do: created an RSS feed of the Rose-Hulman news page. About damn time. In other news, the gay bar rampager that I linked about just yesterday has been shot and killed in a shoot-out in Arkansas. What a messy way to go. Question: What would happen to the Middle East if all countries with money and power completely ceased giving them money?

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    Slow at processing.

    So at a meeting today, a group of about 100 of us students were subjected to a lecture by a local high school teacher that provided evidence that no, I really don’t ever want to be a high school teacher. Not if it ever turns me that cynical.