So I stayed up all night last night to do research for my paper, and there was this singular moment...

I walk out of my room to determine the source of a noise, and discover Samba (the cat) trotting towards me with a cockroach in his mouth.  Alive.  And wiggling.  And because it was wiggling, it was caught in this cycle... wriggle free, run, pounce ( Read more... )

Late last night, I snuggled into bed in anticipation of a few hours of nice quiet slumber before my 9am class.

Around 5:30 this morning, a mere 2.5 or so hours after I had drifted into dreamland, I was suddenly torn from my beauty rest.  I lay there, wondering what had caused me to be come so awake.  Was it my alarm clock? Nope, hasn't gone off yet ( Read more... )

Something funny just happened to me.

I've been backwards-reading PhD Comics [we'll ignore the fact that I've read 7.5 years of archives in 3 days] and read THIS ONE...
...and was wondering why it was so easy for me to HEAR the imitation of a song I was reading...
...until I realized that the song it was imitating was PLAYING on my computer as I was ( Read more... )

I felt an earthquake today for the first time since the 1989 quake!  I was on the phone with my mom when all of a sudden there was this loud rumbling: rumble... rumble... RUMBLE!... and I was like "What the hell?????" and got kinda disturbed/freaked out... and while my mom was complaining about the language I'd let slip, my whole building started ( Read more... )

I think I should earn the Idiot of the Week award. Why this should be considered an accomplishment, I have no idea.

This morning, like always, I set my alarm for quarter to 9, intending to get up by 9:30 for my 10:00 class, and, like often, woke up to realize that it was, once again, quarter to 10 and I was going to be late. So, like always, I got ( Read more... )