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Muskoxenstein 3D
My chemistry teacher was explaining how paradodecylbenzenesulfonate works in water (you see, the main carbon chain is hydrophobic while the so3- substituent is not) by describing how a musk oxen herd will form a ring, horns pointed out, with their young in the center. Except it would be a sphere. A floating sphere of musk oxen. Can anyone please ( Read more... ) -
If you or someone you know has ever done the good (bad) drugs, please help me earn my degree!
Hey, I'm doing a survey for a graduate-requirement research course regarding drug use. Please, your help would be greatly appreciated, as I need 150 respondents by February 9th.
Our sampling frame consists of individuals who have ever used or currently use an illegal drug besides marijuana. Whether or not you have used marijuana is included in ( Read more... ) -
I made a facebook community to educate the world about giant squid...
Giant squid, once believed to be mythical creatures, are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis. There is also a species called the Colossal Squid, but that's just French for "Oh Shit! A Giant Squid!" For our purposes, they are one and the same ( Read more... ) -
Rank, Change, & Hispanoamérica
I had a pleasant surpise last weekend at drill. I got promoted! I was just on the verge of being sure that it would never happen, but I walk in at 0531 Saturday morning for 0530 formation, apparently right after they'd called my name to fall in behind formation for promotion. (This says something about their organization; I wasn't even supposed to ( Read more... ) -
Goals, school & anomic future.
It's taken me sixteen-and-a-half years of school to become an academic student. What changed ( Read more... ) -
Recovery
The nurse joked about how many hours it would take to shave my legs, then my doctor initialed each one, a reminder that both legs needed doing. They wheeled me into the operating room with old-style Mississippi blues in the background, said I was going to go to sleep now, and I was out. At some point I guess I stopped breathing (Mom snooped in the ( Read more... ) -
Surgery tomorrow
Tomorrow morning, Doc is going to slice open the lining of my afflicted muscles. I'll be under a general anesthetic, so if I don't wake up you're all invited to the funeral. Joy ( Read more... ) -
I'm SO done with fall term already. Ugh!
This is the point in the term where there are 3 weeks left and all of the professors are redoubling their efforts to make our heads pop off. It's kind of like that game at the carnival where you fill the balloon coming out of the clown's head until it bursts by shooting water in it's mouth from across the counter. Except you're the clown, and you ( Read more... ) -
Joining the horde of students getting stressed in November
I sit in chemistry and the numbers and symbols mean nothing. I can only read my textbook on the weekends. Tuesday and Thursday evenings are for the other three books and various readings. Monday I have referee meetings immediately after work, and Wednesday I have class til 9:20pm. Friday is for relaxing. The daylight hours are for classes. I have ( Read more... )
