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I have to go meet with the surgeon today about Taily. I’m a bit anxious about that. Aside from that, I am anxious over the actual surgery, which I thought was originally today. I really am not looking forward to being on antibiotics for another few weeks. I don’t think they are working. I have noticed my normally clear completion is starting to get pimply. Assuming antibiotics should counteract that, I wonder if my body is responding poorly to being on antibiotics for the last 30 days… Blar. I just want this over with. I want to thank all my friends who have been supportive and cool about all this. You guys rock.
What are 7 adjectives that you would use to describe homo sapiens that, for the most part, distinguish us from other animals? I’d like come up with 7 distinct characteristics and then break that into degrees. So something like “compassionate” and “hateful” are different degrees of some single characteristic… perhaps “the ability to care” or something like that. I hope all you anthropology and psych majors can help me out here!
I think this has been the story of my life the last year. As I have stated before, the doc said it was highly likely that Taily has cause a lot of my illness lately. Meanwhile, in spite of the growth of Adamantine Arts and the increasing awesomeness of my job, I have been more demotivated than ever. This has changed in the last month a bit as I have been approaching surgery and our mentoring program has been starting. Some wonderful people in my life have helped too. One of which, Sarah, sorta suggested that I try to sabotage various aspects of my life including the organization. An example was getting overwhelmed by things a few months ago and wanting to cancel or scale back the Stevens Creative mentoring program. Yeah. I can see that.
I found this funny. The issue of gay and illegal hits close to home. Although, I am not sure about the carless part.
Matrix masters podcast 118 features an hour lecture with Vilayanur S. Ramachandran MD, PhD, a professor of Neurosciences at UC SanDiago. He focuses half of the talk on one my personal favorite fringe topics, synesthesia and the other on art. He essentially gives a scientific explanation for humans’ desire for visual art and also sticks it to Western Art History. Installments like this are one of the reasons I love Matrix Masters! Give it a hear. Vilayanur is quite engaging as well as humorous and there isn’t a lot of scientific jargon to turn off the less scientifically inclined.
I’m starting a segment called – peeps you should (maybe) know of the day. There are a lot of people if have heard names of stumbled upon on Wikipedia that seem interesting in my mind.
In an effort to be less of a negative Nancy, I would just like to point out that today is a great day. While the weekend was sprinkled with some White Russians ala Big Lebowski, seeing the Frida show at the Walker, and spending some time meeting new people, I also had to hear some things I didn’t want to hear and deal with some things I didn’t want to deal with. However, today I woke up feeling spiritually refreshed. I had my annual review (which went great). I have things mostly planned for this weeks mentoring sessions. …And I get to hang out with my buddy Dave tonite and maybe finish his mural. I also listened to some Christmas tunes over the course of the day on YouTube as to maybe think up some ideas for the Christmas album Jon and I are going to try to do. Yup. Booya.
This is just more proof that the Japanese a both awesome and weird as shit. The game is reminiscent of something you would do on the play ground as a kid… but with wax. You do some sort of paper, rock, scissors type game and the looser has a split second to get his umbrella up before the winner can dowse him in fast setting wax. Damn.