Just some Ramblins
"If they are indeed cumulates, they represent an extremely local phenomenon that had no meaningful impact on the pluton. Three-headed calves are interesting in their own right but we need to keep in perspective their importance to understanding cattle. ~From the Granite Listserv
Guil and I discussed this in our research meeting. Not three headed calves, but the importance, or non-importance, of studying the strange stuff more than the everyday stuff. Guil thinks that if you find a strange phenomenon, you should study that b/c it might be an end member, and could teach you about the everyday stuff. But my question is, what if it is just that, strange...like a three headed calf. I can see where Guil is coming from, but I don't think I quite agree. I would have to pick something strange, but occurs sort of regularly in the rock record, not just once. But the ultimate question is, how can you tell if it is a three headed calf or not?!?! When you don't really know what is actualy normal.
I've had a great day so far today. It's nice and sunny and I enjoy that. I saw a detective the other day. I knew he was one by his trench coat and detective hat he was wearing. I was THIS close to asking about it, but I didn't. Yesterday the strangest thing I saw was.....a christmas tree sticking out of a dumpster. Not that exciting at all, but that's all I got.
Do you know who I love? I love this boat. Just kidding...I love Ruby. Do you watch that TV show? She is very much over weight, and she is trying to lose her weight and be healthy. But she is doing it right, and has a team of people helping her. She is just so full of life and able to be herself, she truely has a lovable personality. She reminds me of several of my friends from home, and I just love people like her.
I just picked up a sparkly rock that has been on my window sill probably since I moved here. I was blowing the dust off it...and I found that all the nooks and crannys of it are coverd in small cobwebs and I even found a tiny spider. I don't mind tiny spiders too much. Unless I am looking at them under a microscope, because then they are big. I don't like ticks at all. They are like spiders in that they have eight legs. But they are worse. They try hard to get into your clothes while you are wearing them and you don't even know they are there. Once they are in your clothes then the try to get into places like inbetween your toes, you armpits, behind your ears, and in your butt crack or even worse tight warm places. Ugh. And once they are there, they bite you and burrow their heads into your skin. The ones in michigan give you lyme desease. But I have never seen them in Michigan. Here I get them from sitting under a tree on campus. And they vary in size from tiny black dots to huge. okay maybe one centimeter in diameter. UGH...I HATE them. And the girl at school who was in a sorority and even lived in the house, can go out to her field area, come back and find over 40 of them on her, tons that dropped off on her car seat, and tons more just in her cloths...and be okay with that. I am NOT okay with that. I don't even like to hear about it. The only way to keep them off you is to duct tape the openings of your clothes to your skin. But then you still have to worry about them in your hair and ears. AND ticks can detect your heat. They know you're there and will drop off trees onto you. Guil and Calvin don't believe this....but it's true!! Not even kidding you...it is. It was in the New York times once and another professor told me...and all the tick's i've gotten have fallen out of trees onto me. That's why I like the desert...no trees, and if there is something taller than you, it's probably so spikey and painful you don't really want to get that close anyways.
Guil and I discussed this in our research meeting. Not three headed calves, but the importance, or non-importance, of studying the strange stuff more than the everyday stuff. Guil thinks that if you find a strange phenomenon, you should study that b/c it might be an end member, and could teach you about the everyday stuff. But my question is, what if it is just that, strange...like a three headed calf. I can see where Guil is coming from, but I don't think I quite agree. I would have to pick something strange, but occurs sort of regularly in the rock record, not just once. But the ultimate question is, how can you tell if it is a three headed calf or not?!?! When you don't really know what is actualy normal.
I've had a great day so far today. It's nice and sunny and I enjoy that. I saw a detective the other day. I knew he was one by his trench coat and detective hat he was wearing. I was THIS close to asking about it, but I didn't. Yesterday the strangest thing I saw was.....a christmas tree sticking out of a dumpster. Not that exciting at all, but that's all I got.
Do you know who I love? I love this boat. Just kidding...I love Ruby. Do you watch that TV show? She is very much over weight, and she is trying to lose her weight and be healthy. But she is doing it right, and has a team of people helping her. She is just so full of life and able to be herself, she truely has a lovable personality. She reminds me of several of my friends from home, and I just love people like her.
I just picked up a sparkly rock that has been on my window sill probably since I moved here. I was blowing the dust off it...and I found that all the nooks and crannys of it are coverd in small cobwebs and I even found a tiny spider. I don't mind tiny spiders too much. Unless I am looking at them under a microscope, because then they are big. I don't like ticks at all. They are like spiders in that they have eight legs. But they are worse. They try hard to get into your clothes while you are wearing them and you don't even know they are there. Once they are in your clothes then the try to get into places like inbetween your toes, you armpits, behind your ears, and in your butt crack or even worse tight warm places. Ugh. And once they are there, they bite you and burrow their heads into your skin. The ones in michigan give you lyme desease. But I have never seen them in Michigan. Here I get them from sitting under a tree on campus. And they vary in size from tiny black dots to huge. okay maybe one centimeter in diameter. UGH...I HATE them. And the girl at school who was in a sorority and even lived in the house, can go out to her field area, come back and find over 40 of them on her, tons that dropped off on her car seat, and tons more just in her cloths...and be okay with that. I am NOT okay with that. I don't even like to hear about it. The only way to keep them off you is to duct tape the openings of your clothes to your skin. But then you still have to worry about them in your hair and ears. AND ticks can detect your heat. They know you're there and will drop off trees onto you. Guil and Calvin don't believe this....but it's true!! Not even kidding you...it is. It was in the New York times once and another professor told me...and all the tick's i've gotten have fallen out of trees onto me. That's why I like the desert...no trees, and if there is something taller than you, it's probably so spikey and painful you don't really want to get that close anyways.