exciting news re: role models 30 May, 2008

I feel like I’m kind of late in the game for only noticing this now, but Barack Obama is LEFT-HANDED! I was just reading my afternoon paper (newspaper websites tend to update around midnight their local time, so I get east coast media at noon, west coast media at 3pm), when I came across the [...]

oh good, another crazy policy decision 29 May, 2008

So the National Parks Service wants to allow us all to be free to carry concealed weapons in its parks. (here’s its press release about the change) My first reaction, like any good American, was, “Thank goodness! This news makes me feel safer.” Because nothing says “safety” like “I have no idea if those obnoxious [...]

27 May, 2008

Sick again. Last time, it was the “I just got back from China” sickness, which is just like coming home after finals — after being grossly overtaxed, your immune system finally starts to win ground against pathogens, causing you to manifest symptoms.
This time, it’s “climate control sickness”. With warm, moist air outside and cool, dry, [...]

water 25 May, 2008

Well, the wet season seems to have begun, judging by the condensation coating nearly every window. It’s mostly gross (insects driven indoors, mold growing on book covers, papers getting damp and nasty just sitting on the desk), but there have been moments of nice.
In particular, it often rains at night, as the cooling air gets [...]

A point of contention with my subconscious 13 May, 2008

I obviously love to sleep. Who doesn’t, right? (A: Chairman Mao was famous for only sleeping like two hours per night)
And, to clarify, I say “subconscious” in the title of this post to refer to some combination of: the non-conscious mind in charge of dreaming and regulating sleep cycles; the reptilian brain stem that in [...]

forces in opposition like the arrows on the Tab key 8 May, 2008

Which is to say, there are opposed forces, but neither is significant like an actual stressor.
THE BAD:
Since Fed Chairman Bernacke keeps bumping down the prime rate, it seems like now would be a very attractive time to consolidate my student loans, since, if I remember correctly, loan consolidation FIXES YOUR INTEREST RATE FOREVER. So that [...]