CNN was so depressing this morning. it was like 6 articles about how GM is fucked and one about starving polar bears eating each other.

Now I am sad. What's going to happen to Detroit? [and the polar bears]

I named 50 US states in 10 minutes
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I normally try to keep quiet about politics because it usually just ends up being no good, but i really can't help myself here ( Read more... )

Dave submitted a picture of me to the site shejailbait.com (where you vote whether or not the person in the [mostly provocative] pictures are underage. And he got this email back ( Read more... )

Yeah... i totally broke my toe in tang soo do (the martial arts class I take) yesterday. Well, I think it's technically the bone in my foot proximal to the toe, which is worse, because doomdoomydoom informs me that those bones are the major load bearing parts of your body. So, needless to say I'm not exactly a happy camper ( Read more... )

"As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists. But most of us quickly lose our intrinsic scientific passion. And it’s a profound loss."

-Brian Greene

Best way to end my teaching practicum:

During the final, i routinely get up and answer student questions. One girl raises her hand. i go over there. she asks:

"I dropped my pen, could you pick it up for me?"
"Uh ok..." *hands her the pen*

Teaching college students is so gratifying :-P

"Anyone ever think you're a couple?"
"No, because we screw boys like whores on tequila and then either try to marry them or drown ourselves."

I appreciate the internet because it lets me get feedback about my weird knee thing and it allows me to talk to Natasha in between her delivering babies. YAY INTERNET

I don't know what i did, but my knee's been fucked up for the past week and a half. It's a rather bizarre injury. there wasn't any sort of "acute" instance where i was aware that i pulled something, it's just been sore. It started with waking up in the middle of the night with it hurting *a lot* and during the day it seems to be ok other than when ( Read more... )