Ah the blaring of a cooling unit in your fridge, one forgets how wonderful that can be, until you DON'T hear it. Particularly at a time when you are being tested in other ways. I have been dealing with some other stuff (as my last post might have told you) so a missing fridge was not what I needed right now. It stopped cooling about 48 hours ago ( Read more... )

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know ( Read more... )

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Like that moment before they raise the flag on Iwo jima, and you know the rush of it is over, but it's not COMPLETELY over, but you can at least rest for a moment? Ok, that's like where I am. School started yesterday, with all it's madness and ingenuity. New freshman who look younger and younger each year, have arrived on the USS UC Berkeley. ( Read more... )

Oh gosh, Thurs, I walk on campus to the blaring of the brass bands and the Cal fight song, I wish I could post sound. It's a searing sound that spreads through the body like wild fire. At first I admit the cranky broad story, the image of myself like a Warner Brothers cartoon, with the ( Read more... )