January 2010
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December 2009
New books I have, as of post-holiday shopping: Bullfinch’s Mythology, Collection of poetry by Wislawa Szymborska, ditto Wilfred Owen, The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By, Black Powder War (Temeraire! Yay!), The Drowning City (Amanda Downum, shameless escapism), Books I own and still haven’t read yet: assorted Ann Rule and John Douglas (life is depressing enough, these are going...
So among other awesomeness, today season 1 of Criminal Minds showed up in the post. :) Naturally this means that L and I watched Extreme Aggressor [after sushi and book stores]. I love my show, because these are not static characters. I was particularly struck by: -Derek’s suit and professional attitude. Seeing this again now, his effort to keep his personal life behind a stone wall is...
“Under One Small Star” My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I’m mistaken, after all. Please, don’t be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second. My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first....
For the record, the gingerbread recipe I got off of melliyna is wonderful. This is about half of what L and I cooked up today, and they are delicious. I’m going to make another batch of dough in a few minutes, which will live in my refrigerator until it’s time for me to babysit tomorrow. More things… *I am working on the index for knightstemporal . I am. There’s more than...
To all my friends in the northern hemisphere, I wish you and yours a very merry winter solstice and a lovely year following.
All religious traditions aside, there is something very comforting about this day. It’s the longest, darkest night of the year—but once it’s over, the light begins to return. It may be the first official day of winter [tell that to the snow outside!],...
Dear whoever did this [and I very much suspect you are on my f-list], I LOVE YOU. <3
Dear weather, this is not upstate NY. You seem a little confused. I took this at 10:00, and it is supposed to snow all day and also tomorrow. DNW snow for my birthday, especially when it means no sushi date with L. :((((((((((((((
Lower respiratory tract infections: for those weeks that just had to get worse. I do not want [pneumonia/bronchitis/they won’t know until they run more tests] for my birthday. That is not a good present, body. The past few days have been sort of, “Huh. Wonder why I’m so tired and dizzy.” Today was more along the lines of “Hey, I feel like I’m going to pass...
And here’s the promised post about my little finals-week adventure. Step 1: Obtain candy, wrapping paper, ribbon, permanent marker[s]. Step 2: Fold wrapping paper into packets. Add candy. Tape closed. Step 3: Write happy messages in various colors. :D For instance: You survived fall semester!; Smile, it’s only a test; You’re a pretty human being; You can do it!. Also one...
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1. Finals are almost over! I have one more tomorrow, and then I’m done. A brief synopsis, in order of occurrence:
Bio Lab: My professor is a grad student and quite lovely. She’s as tired/busy as we are, so she gave us all the questions a week before the test and also made it open note. :)
Ochem Lab: Death by lab research, I tell you! This wasn’t even a final, really, just the...
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My 10 year old sister has a test tomorrow on telescopes. She needs to know the three major kinds [reflecting, refracting, radio] and a little bit about each. Parents were both busy, so she asked me to help her study. Is she going to ace this test? Most definitely. But she also now knows plenty about photoreceptors, the primary visual cortex, wave mechanics, the human eye, microscopes,...
First final of the semester is tomorrow. If any of you are bizarrely interested in fetal pig organs, there are pictures. (Warn for what I suppose some consider icky. Also for cute dead baby animals.) There are a few fascinating anomalies, like the pig with the deformed liver. And if you’re really interested, here’s a site where you can perform a virtual dissection of your own. I...