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They just mulched all along the walkway down to the music hall. It's the earth-smell mingled with the smell of this old soap my mom used to keep under the sink, Lily of the Valley maybe, back when that cabinet was to me absolutely mysterious and feminine and grown up. Everything today calls out spring.
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Meeting with Tim and the critical multiculturalism group is so incredibly frustrating and freeing at the same time. I feel the stirrings of an amazing latent potential to be truly revolutionary, part of a group of fervent activists, stirring up quite a bit... really inducing productive change for social justice. I would elaborate, but it's still spinning around through my mind so 'desbocadamente'--what's the word?--unreigned-ly? uninhibited-ly? unbridled-ly? whatever.
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mrr, I was really excited about the idea of being a camp counselor at Interlochen or Outdoor Lab (love both to deathhh. also, i might even be old enough to do high school division, though junior or intermediate are cooler... plus you gotta love the red knee socks). buuuut i just signed on to this lab work, probably instead (10 weeks...) which is exciting but i don't know exactly how i feel about it... how long is summer? it should be 20 weeks so everything would all fit in. aghhh also, peru had better happen or i will cry!
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The word "México" literally means "en el ombligo de la luna"--in the bellybutton of the moon (though it sounds better, really). The city of Tenochtitlan was in the middle of a large lake that would look silvery on occasion, like the moon. Lovely image, no?
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Also: (bear with me, a bit of background first so it makes sense)
Chiral molecules (molecules with mirror images that are non-superimposable upon/ exchangable with the original molecule even when rotated) are found all over the body. The two different chiral forms of each of these kind of molecules can be classified as dextrorotatory or laevorotatory, depending on the direction polarized light is bent when it comes into contact with these molecules. (There's also the R/S identifying convention, related to classifying but not polarization, but let's conveniently leave that out)
Trigonal planar molecules (visualize a central atom at the middle of a triangle, bonds extending out to three groups at each of the triangle's points) are identical to other trigonal planar molecules with the same central atom and attached groups, regardless of the order/arrangement/attachment of those groups around the central atom. This is because the molecule is planar and can rotate around in 3-dimensional space.
But imagine if we only had two dimensions. Then the attached atoms/groups would not be able to change places, and trigonal planar molecules with the same groups arranged differently around the central atom would not be the same as they would not be able to interconvert/rotate in 3-D space.
Our bodies are able to use (have enzymes interact with) only one of the chiral forms of most kinds of molecules. D-glucose, for instance, is absolutely essential for our energy and existence, whereas L=big whoop, useless. And I think we use only L amino acids... We can't process L-glucose or D amino acids.
Sooooo, according to our teacher,
If people were to travel through a fourth dimension, the molecules which are non-superimposable and different stereoisometric forms in 3-D space would be able to rotate and interconvert in 4-D. So you could have crazy stories about people coming back, having their bodily components switched around to different chiral forms and not being able to process food and shit like that.
In the words of Erica, WHOA.
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Meeting with Tim and the critical multiculturalism group is so incredibly frustrating and freeing at the same time. I feel the stirrings of an amazing latent potential to be truly revolutionary, part of a group of fervent activists, stirring up quite a bit... really inducing productive change for social justice. I would elaborate, but it's still spinning around through my mind so 'desbocadamente'--what's the word?--unreigned-ly? uninhibited-ly? unbridled-ly? whatever.
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mrr, I was really excited about the idea of being a camp counselor at Interlochen or Outdoor Lab (love both to deathhh. also, i might even be old enough to do high school division, though junior or intermediate are cooler... plus you gotta love the red knee socks). buuuut i just signed on to this lab work, probably instead (10 weeks...) which is exciting but i don't know exactly how i feel about it... how long is summer? it should be 20 weeks so everything would all fit in. aghhh also, peru had better happen or i will cry!
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The word "México" literally means "en el ombligo de la luna"--in the bellybutton of the moon (though it sounds better, really). The city of Tenochtitlan was in the middle of a large lake that would look silvery on occasion, like the moon. Lovely image, no?
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Also: (bear with me, a bit of background first so it makes sense)
Chiral molecules (molecules with mirror images that are non-superimposable upon/ exchangable with the original molecule even when rotated) are found all over the body. The two different chiral forms of each of these kind of molecules can be classified as dextrorotatory or laevorotatory, depending on the direction polarized light is bent when it comes into contact with these molecules. (There's also the R/S identifying convention, related to classifying but not polarization, but let's conveniently leave that out)
Trigonal planar molecules (visualize a central atom at the middle of a triangle, bonds extending out to three groups at each of the triangle's points) are identical to other trigonal planar molecules with the same central atom and attached groups, regardless of the order/arrangement/attachment of those groups around the central atom. This is because the molecule is planar and can rotate around in 3-dimensional space.
But imagine if we only had two dimensions. Then the attached atoms/groups would not be able to change places, and trigonal planar molecules with the same groups arranged differently around the central atom would not be the same as they would not be able to interconvert/rotate in 3-D space.
Our bodies are able to use (have enzymes interact with) only one of the chiral forms of most kinds of molecules. D-glucose, for instance, is absolutely essential for our energy and existence, whereas L=big whoop, useless. And I think we use only L amino acids... We can't process L-glucose or D amino acids.
Sooooo, according to our teacher,
If people were to travel through a fourth dimension, the molecules which are non-superimposable and different stereoisometric forms in 3-D space would be able to rotate and interconvert in 4-D. So you could have crazy stories about people coming back, having their bodily components switched around to different chiral forms and not being able to process food and shit like that.
In the words of Erica, WHOA.