from living ...
Holidays are fun ... usually. Being so busy during the semester honestly made me forget the down side of spending so much time with my family. I'm glad I can spend so much time with my grandparents, it makes me very happy cause I don't know when I'll see them again (I'm trying very hard not to say if I'll see them again). I'm glad I get to spend so much time with my brother. We're getting along so much better now that he's older. He still makes me crazy at times and I love to drive him up the wall but it's all in good fun. Our sense of humor matches a lot more than it used to and it's great how we talk to each other more than to our parents. I guess having a younger brother isn't all bad. Mum and dad ... are being mum and dad. I love them to death but their expectations of my life and mine really don't match up ... at all. It makes things interesting I guess. I miss my Aunt and Uncle. They are by far the coolest adults I know. It's too bad we couldn't see them this holiday season. Most of all though, I miss my baby cousin ... the cutest little four year old I know. I was talking to him Christmas morning (the poor darling had a cold) and he was so excited about his presents. He kept telling me how he was sure he had heard Santa's sleigh in the night and how Santa had finished all the milk and cookies that he had left by the tree. It's times like this, when I hear my cousin, stuffy nose and all, I can't wait till I have kids of my own.
I wish the holidays would go on forever. I'm not looking forward to the next few weeks ... or months actually. There's so much to do ... studying for MCATs, searching for internships and grad schools, applications, studying for MCATs, recommendations, interviews, moving and ... did I mention studying for MCATs? ... all of this along with classes and work. I foresee a breakdown in March ... at the latest. Ah well, it's the poison I chose.
Apart from that I'm happy. I'm alive and healthy. I have food when I want it, clothes when I need it and a roof over my head. I'm young and in love. I have two families that love me ... the one I was born into and the one I made, or rather collected, for myself. Now all that's lacking is ITDs :-)
And now we return to random out-takes ... you have been duly warned.
"There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will." Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true. - Robert Heinlein, The Door into Summer
Are Scientists Interesting?
Musing on my reaction, I came to a somewhat unnerving conclusion. The fact of the matter is we scientists simply are not all that interesting. If I may generalize wildly, we are usually dull people with interesting ideas - as distinguished from artists (interesting people with dull ideas) and dancers and athletes (dull people with dull ideas and magnificent physical skills). The more a story focuses on what scientists actually do, I fear, the less interesting it will be.
- James S. Trefil, in Scientific American
Happy Holidays to all, may you have health, wealth and happiness to your heart's content.
PS: To the sister of my heart: I've been practicing ... and I think it's working ... just maybe.
PS: To my love: Is it working?
I wish the holidays would go on forever. I'm not looking forward to the next few weeks ... or months actually. There's so much to do ... studying for MCATs, searching for internships and grad schools, applications, studying for MCATs, recommendations, interviews, moving and ... did I mention studying for MCATs? ... all of this along with classes and work. I foresee a breakdown in March ... at the latest. Ah well, it's the poison I chose.
Apart from that I'm happy. I'm alive and healthy. I have food when I want it, clothes when I need it and a roof over my head. I'm young and in love. I have two families that love me ... the one I was born into and the one I made, or rather collected, for myself. Now all that's lacking is ITDs :-)
And now we return to random out-takes ... you have been duly warned.
"There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will." Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true. - Robert Heinlein, The Door into Summer
Are Scientists Interesting?
Musing on my reaction, I came to a somewhat unnerving conclusion. The fact of the matter is we scientists simply are not all that interesting. If I may generalize wildly, we are usually dull people with interesting ideas - as distinguished from artists (interesting people with dull ideas) and dancers and athletes (dull people with dull ideas and magnificent physical skills). The more a story focuses on what scientists actually do, I fear, the less interesting it will be.
- James S. Trefil, in Scientific American
Happy Holidays to all, may you have health, wealth and happiness to your heart's content.
PS: To the sister of my heart: I've been practicing ... and I think it's working ... just maybe.
PS: To my love: Is it working?