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[May. 27th, 2008|12:39 pm] |
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Do you know what I am in the mood for? The World Series. I want to grill brats, drink beers, eat other unhealthy snack foods, and hang out on the couch with all my friends who like baseball. At least one of us should have a team in there. Watching baseball is perhaps the best form of sitting around and doing nothing, an activity that I am attempting to raise to an art form. If only it weren't May. |
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[May. 16th, 2008|11:23 am] |
Tender handed stroke a nettle, and it
stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it
soft as silk remains.
-Thomas Fuller
You can find a recipe for Nettle Purée here.
Formic acid is the primary component of the nettles' sting, it is also the venom in a bee sting. It is fragile, however, and cooking the Nettles will destroy the formic acid. |
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| Anatomy & Physiology & my bare ass |
[May. 15th, 2008|02:46 pm] |
Right now I am taking an anatomy course because I need some biology courses before I can register to take the "Medical Physics" exam. For those of you who are following my career you are probably confused. I know that I am. First I kept doing Physics until they gave me a PhD. Then, naturally, I became a post doc in Genetics. Then I must have inhaled something bad for you because I took Organic Chemistry. Now I am taking Anatomy. I have never before taken a class where I needed to make flash cards. So far I have a 92% in that class. We still haven't learnt about the penis or the vagina, but I hope to bring my grade up in that part of the class. I can also locate and describe the function of the clitoris with aplomb. Right now I only know the names and functions of a lot of bones, muscles, nerves, and a whole crapload about all of the tissues in the heart.
Next term I am going to take a class in Physiology. Taking these classes is like that time when you are a little kid and you had an ear infection and couldn't sleep so your mom took you to the doctor who handed you off to a nurse who asked you take your pants off because this needle full of penicillin is going straight into your gluteus medius little boy. You knew it would be good for you in the long run but the immediate pain made you cry because although you were young you knew to keep your bare ass away from strangers with needles. Call it an instinct.
Anatomy is interesting, I expect Physiology to be interesting too. But I have grown to enjoy spending my Saturday hunting down Veal bones for stock instead of scribbling the names of parts of the body onto 3x5 cards and then later trying to remember what the hell you scribbled on the back of the card that you scribbled "Where do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order neurons originate and synapse?" onto the front side.
Enough whining, I have to go to class now. |
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| haircut verts |
[May. 1st, 2008|02:09 pm] |
Yesterday I got a haircut from a lady I had never before met. I went to her barbershop because it was only a 15 minute walk from my office, and because I read on the web that they charged $25 for long hair. I think that if you pay less than that sometimes an idiot cuts your hair. Although, the best barber I ever had charged $13. His name was Jerry Picasso and once while he was cutting my hair he told me that he loved being married and he loved his wife, except that screwing the same woman every night is like eating lasagna every single night. I think that if he didn't tell his customers about screwing his wife he could probably charge a little more. He was born and raised in Sicily and moved to Long Island when he was in his 20s. I never asked why he moved to LI, although I have always wondered if all Sicilian barbers are hair-cutting geniuses like him but I have never met another Sicilian barber.
I got a very good haircut yesterday and I didn't even ask about her sex life at all. While she was cutting my hair, however, she did mention that I have very healthy hair and that I should keep it long and that it was good that I worked someplace where "you can do that, y'know, you can be a little eccentric." A little eccentric? Well, I am the only person in this whole place with a ponytail. I don't think I'd call it eccentric, though.
Maybe with these pants that I am wearing you could call it eccentric. I got these linen pants from the Banana Republic recently, maybe 6 years ago. And they have shrunk a little bit. Normally that looks bad but I have begun pairing them with my sandals. When you wear short linen pants with sandals, and a short sleeved shirt and you have a ponytail you look like you are on vacation someplace hot and breezy. |
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| tgif, lol, omg, brb |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|08:47 pm] |
O_MA_GAWD I JUST JOINED FACEBOOK.
Do you know what I would give to just not hear someone say that for like a whole day. I just spent the whole day inside the apartment and I still heard someone say it! Now everyone I know is on the damn thing. I am the last free mind on the planet. I, alone, have NOT JOINED FACEBOOK. And I'm not going to! You have all succumbed to BORG of our day, the mindless "one" that you have become.
That isn't true, I will join, I know that I will, but let it be known that this is the last sane blog entry ever made on Earth. Elyse just learned that her cousin Peter is related to some Russian King or something. She learned that on Facebook, and there is no other way to know that sort of thing. That's what Facebook brings to you, the ultimate knowledge of everything single thing that your friends can say in ONE SINGLE SENTENCE.
For I have seen the facebook "emote", and all of the utter GENIUS that our species has accumulated. We are a smart, smart, smart species. Maybe not the proudest kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus. But a proud species.
Thank you and good night. |
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