Black coffee, a half melted chardonnay truffle, and thin crust pizza dough rising on the stove.


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"Sea stars, sea urchins, and other echinoderms... may seem to have little in common with phylum Chordata, which includes the vertebrates- animals which have a backbone. In fact, however..."

...in fact, however.

IN FACT, HOWEVER.

If I come out of the sciences with my grammar intact, I am going to consider it a miracle.

I was about to post a big growly post about how I'm tired and bawwwww life and sundry, but I just found a loonie on a chair ( Read more... )

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Brokencyde - Freaxxx (Music Video) from Eat Cake Films on Vimeo.

I have never seen better performance art, yet sources claim these fellows are serious musicians. Either way, the comment list on the website is the clearest litmus test for over and under 13 that I have ever seen in my life.

Some of the larger aquatic species mate by penis fencing, a duel in which each tries to impregnate the other, and the loser adopts the female role of developing the eggs.

In the next life, I'm coming back as a Pseudobiceros bedfordian.

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JAN: Last I recall hearing... if you ate nothing but people for a while you'd get malnourished pretty quickly, wouldn't you?
FEB: First time in a long time that I've actually f-locked a post, but I need a bit of a bitching.
MAR: Wrrrry am I the only person ever who loves Narumi?!
APR: I will not fuck this up.
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So. The first question on my exam yesterday:

Which of the following polysaccharides is not a homopolymer of glucose?

a) amylose
b) chitin
c) amylopectin
d) glycogen
e) cellobiose

I cannot even freaking believe I got it right. I had to go back after I had taken the exam, rush back out to my car and hurriedly look up the answer. I only figured it ( Read more... )

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