Monday, September 25, 2006
I fell asleep in public...and almost paid a heavy price for it!
I was lying on the couch last night when I heard muffled voices saying, "Do it!" and "he won't notice!" I prepared myself for anything that might come, or so I thought, before I opened my eyes and a heaping plate of soggy ground carrots was placed before my face. Not on my face - that would be too...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
Has anyone else noticed this? Or am I the only one?
One question I inevitably ask of people I know is, "what is above your head right now?" The reason I ask is because, in my experience, people who notice what is above their head - ceilings, balconies, skylights - are generally more perceptive than other people. It is an easy way of judging if the...
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I have amazing news!! I am still in shock! This will be life changing!
The phone call today took a totally unexpected turn: I found out that my brother is getting married right around Christmas! He bought his engagement ring the other day and is now visiting his fiancé here in the Midwest before going back to the west coast for grad school. They moved the date up...
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
I am so fed up with irresponsible, inconsiderate people! Gah!!
So, I woke up this morning to find a sign on our couch in the lounge that said "wet couch" and a sign below it saying, "wet floor." I assumed it was just someone who had spilled something the night before and had left the signs as a courtesy so that no one would sit down to a wet surprise, so I...
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Friday, September 22, 2006
My house was broken into last night! And the bandit is still loose!!
I received an email from my mother telling me about the midnight marauder. Apparently, she woke up around midnight to a suspicious scent, and my dog was barking. She sat up and saw as, silhouetted by the occasional lightning, my dog barking at a skunk. After a moment of panic, she eventually got up...
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Why does this always happen to me?!
Somehow, I managed to accomplish more than usual. I slept through my alarm. Since my alarm goes off until someone turns it off, I know that I didn’t sleep through it, but rather got up this morning and turned it off in my sleep. I only fell back asleep for a few minutes, but those were minutes meant...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Pushing the Limits of Medical Ethics?
In biology class today, we were going over the biological mechanisms of cancer and various avenues of treatment for it, when our professor told us about something called "HeLa" cells. At first, I thought that referred to the chemical make up of the cells, or perhaps the person who discovered them....
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Curiosity Killed the Secret: Why do we Blog?
Reading over posts in the past few days, I have been wondering what it is that drives us to blog. In specific, I am wondering why we are here, on Blogit, but also why, in a more general sense, we write blogs in the first place. Over the past few years there has been a huge explosion of the presence...
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Manufacturing the Viewpoint: Language as a Disease
The power of words stems from their simple ability to let us comprehend something that we cannot directly observe ourselves. For instance, language allows me to know that my friends are waiting on my floor and will be ordering pizza at 6:00pm. In fact, language lets me know that they are my friends...
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
I Guarantee This Will Make You Smile!
Gerard Moots was a normal man whose abnormal job, he claimed, was to distribute the future to the universe. Every morning he woke up at a sharp 3:00 A.M. in order to get an early start, and then began the process of doling out the future to all the corners of the world, some of which we have been to...
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