So today I achieve my quarter century.  I'm not really sure how to feel about it. I think Dad and I are going to dinner and dessert today, which will be fun.  And, of course, I saw Eddie Izzard last night.  Brilliant, really brilliant.  The people next to us came because someone gave them the tickets, and they left about 20 minutes into it.  I ( Read more... )

tigers, giraffes, cavemen, monsters, (no) god, religion, commandments, wikipedia, ah....now I am no longer annoyed.

and I'm bringing my own white-out to work tomorrow and I'M NOT LETTING ANYONE USE IT!  then, of course, I'll have to curse myself out when I break it.  :oP

So I spent yesterday afternoon reading Chromosome-6, which was utterly dreadful.  It was doubly dreadful coming on top of my discussion with the Dad of what makes a good mystery novel.  Blah.  And I imagine that the "discussion" in class tonight will be light.  We're not into discussing, apparently, in that class.

The chapters from Hellman are ( Read more... )

How exciting!  I'm going to see Eddie Izzard for my birthday.  Well, technically, the day before my birthday.  But this was a leap year, so, that's really on my birthday.  Or something.  Hahaha.

I'll be 25; nothing particularly special about that except that I can rent a car without paying ginormous premiums.  But as I do not rent cars in general ( Read more... )

The Aged P's and I are watching Definite Article...fun!

Finally tonight, I want to talk about a guy called Pavlov, who was Eastern European, I think Russian, and did the famous experiment, “Pavlov’s Dog.” You probably heard of...ring bells and dogs eating food, response times, Pavlovian kind of response, it’s all about ice-cream and...And he wrote these experiments:

"Day One - Pavlov’s Dog - Rang bell, ( Read more... )