Or, idle musings on fiction vs. reality (spoilers: I think fiction wins ( Read more... )

But I think Robert Frost will always be one of my favorite poets. I'd never read this poem of his before (found it on greatpoets ) but loved it after the first stanza.

Random personal babblings: not much going on in my life right now. Spring break drawing to a close and I have done little to no work. Feeling a grad school anxiety and lethargy I cannot pin ( Read more... )

I will only say that the program is over. We started with 27 people and there were 14 of us left at the end. It was psychologically twisted and emotionally as well as mentally draining.  No more 16 hours of Latin a day with 5 hours for sleeping and 3 hours for eating/showering/misc. Maybe I can start talking to people again now. I would like to ( Read more... )

Day 2:

• first conjugation: present active subjunctive
• imperfect active subjunctive
• perfect active subjunctive
• pluperfect active subjunctive
• conditional sentences

Earth's hum.

Edit: Thought I'd include some interesting excerpts against the day the link dies:

"Earth's Hum Sounds More Mysterious Than Ever" By Charles Q. Choi at LiveSience

" The planet emanates a constant rumble far below the limits of human hearing, even when the ground isn't shaking from an earthquake. [...] This sound, first discovered a ( Read more... )

Because antibiotics are akin to magic, I no longer feel like slowly smothering myself to death with my pillow to make the suffering stop. Amazing what a few degrees difference in body temperature does to your outlook on life. But now I’m awake but feeling completely incapable of any kind of exertion. I tried grading an impossible backlog of ( Read more... )

Incidentally, my icon is an anthropomorhized version of Penicillium chrysogenum. I know I have all the spellings wrong. It's from the absolutely hilarious anime on crack where the premise is that a college student an agricultural university has the power to see microbes with the naked eye. And they look cute a la Hello Kitty. You will eventually ( Read more... )

Ok, so most of this article by  PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer is terribly dull, but it has really interesting moments. Or at least moments with potential (all of which are excerpted below):

"The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch ( Read more... )

January: Most Traumatic School-Related Memory (Although Now It Seems Rather Funny): The chronological placing of this memory is blurry because that time was so mixed up.

February: I don't think I've written a poem in a year or so...this was supposed to be a prose piece really, long and digressive but then I didn't take notes on it like I should ( Read more... )

Is anyone familiar with the story of Lincoln and the Pig? The internet is not proving to be quite as helpful as I'd hoped.

I was recently at the dentist's office and there I saw the most bizarre windows I have every come across: a series of glass rectangles seperated by wrought iron. The truly odd thing was that the glass was speckled with black ( Read more... )