Y'know, a bag full of teeth sure looks a lot like a bag of popcorn. Only not so appetizing. :) Today in my osteology class, we had to sift through zip-lock bags of teeth (with roots attached), and sort them into piles based on whether they were deciduous (baby) teeth or permanent teeth, their type (incisors, canines, premolars, and molars), and ( Read more... )

Bleh! Another crappy day at work. I got yelled at by Barbara twice in the first 2 hours, made a complete idiot out of myself in front of the new employee, accidentally called a male customer "ma'am" over the telephone (needless to say, he was extremely displeased with me), got chewed out by a very bitchy lady over a billing dispute she had with BN. ( Read more... )

Did you know that in 1893, the Supreme Court officially ruled that the tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit?

http://www.oldhouseweb.net/gardening/Detailed/674.shtml

I skipped my government class today. For the 2nd time this semester. That's 2 out of 4 classes I've missed. What the hell is wrong with me ( Read more... )

Yeehaw! I got into the osteology class that I was really wanting! Today I got to spend an hour fiddling around with an "exploded skull"-- a human skull that had been separated down to its tiny little component parts. I had lots of fun trying to see how all the pieces fit together, and was really surprised by how delicate some of them were. It was ( Read more... )

I'm really enjoying this lovely, sunny weather. Yesterday I actually drove around town in a sleeveless shirt with the windows rolled down, in the middle of January. It was wonderful! Because I was feeling so cheerful, I decided to go through the car wash. There's something so soothing about sitting in my car as the suds cascade down the windshield ( Read more... )

For those of you living in the Netherlands who have reason to call the US (or any other foreign country, for that matter) , you might want to check out Teledump, a really cheap subscriptionless long distance service. You dial an 0900 access number, which charges you a one-time connection fee of 5 cents, and then after that you dial the number of ( Read more... )

Finally got around to putting up some pictures from my various vacations (Netherlands, Belize, my roadtrip with Rick, etc.) on Fotopic. I haven't had a chance to fiddle with them much-- many of them still need to be edited, and I haven't resized them yet, so Fotopic did that for me and made them look all nasty and grainy. But it's a start. :) They' ( Read more... )

Roommate: "Shit, you put me in check. How did that happen?"

Quite a busy day so far, and it's only 5:00pm ( Read more... )