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Recent events...
While at work today, I saw a pigeon. This normally wouldn't be a big deal, but I was on the Plant Conservation Farm in the wheat fields. We were more than a few miles out of town, but the pigeon didn't seem to care. Pigeons are normally city birds - they need cave-like structures in which to nest, which is why they like eaves so much. They're most ( Read more... ) -
Woo!
I got an 80 on my last Physics Exam, BEFORE the curve! Yay!
I am so relieved, it's not funny. -
grr.
Okay, in what world is it okay for a professor to post an assignment online over break, and have it due at 8 am on the Monday immediately following break? And not to breath a word about it to anyone, while he writes out the problem sets for all other assignments on the board in class ( Read more... ) -
Sittin on the dock of the bay...
Here I am, sitting in Todd Atrium, when I should be taking a calculus test. I was almost late to the test - I apparently set the time for my alarm last night but neglected to actually turn the alarm on. I woke up on my own a scant 15 minutes before class started, but managed to make it up there almost exactly on time. The professor seemed shocked ( Read more... ) -
Duuude....
The most awesome thing to happen today: one of my loaches is bellied up to the front wall of the aquarium. Their bellies are transparent, so I can see it's heart beat. It's really cool.
That is all. -
blearg
My head hurts. I'm still in bed. I also have class in half an hour, and somehow I'm just really not interested in going. Partially because my books haven't arrived, so I haven't completed the reading, and half because I think that my views on environmental ethics might clash a wee bit with the professors. If I go, I predict a 65% chance of me being ( Read more... ) -
Done!
I just finished my last assignment of the semester. Joy. -
Clemens makes me very, very happy.
From Mark Twain's Own Autobiography, 1924.
"As I have said, I spent some part of every year at the farm until I was twelve or thirteen years old. The live which I led there with my cousins was full of charm, and so is the memory of it yet. I can call back the solemn twilight and mystery of the deep woods, the earthy smells, the faint odors of the ( Read more... ) -
Week in Review
Monday: Spilled half a bottle of perfume on bedroom floor, and three days later most of my clothes still smell perfumed. *frowns ( Read more... ) -
So very confused...
Ready for a mindbender?
It turns out that giraffes don't have long necks for foraging reasons.
Apparently they don't really care about reaching the tops of the tall acacia trees. A few intrepid researchers spent two years recording giraffe foraging behavior, and they spent the vast majority of their time grabbing leaves from about (giraffe) shoulder ( Read more... )