whew

finally finished
fellowship application
feel much better now

solution

Today I spent two
hours adjusting pH
dissolve all ready

pH=2 syllables because that's how it would sound out loud. True story. 2 hours-ish. 1.75 would have messed up my syllable count. EDTA won't dissolve until the solution hits about pH=8. I did not know that when I dumped in 180 grams of the stuff. After letting it stir for a few hours, I looked it up. Let that be a lesson to you. But I won.
And clearly I can't sleep and am all ready betrayed by the time stamp on this post.

entertainment

It seems that of late

Entertainment and pleasure

Have been inverted

I read Eat, Pray, Love a while ago. It's pretty good. Not great, but enjoyable and Ms Gilbert makes some good points. While visiting Italy, she observes that many people have replace pleasure with entertainment. Instead of enjoyment, we simply fill the time with whatever is easiest and disengage.

That is all.

oops

Smoke detector's loud
Rather uncomfortable
Way to meet neighbors

monday

Finally sunny now
Lab is rather empty too
Meetings are lovely

wet dog

Still rainy, wet dog
scratches to come inside but
knows Texas still sucks

Seriously, wet dogs smell really terrible. And she seems to enjoy that. Next week is going to be nice and quiet. Exam is finished. And everyone is in Chicago for the SfN meeting.

news haiku

There are news items
That make me just so angry
Really Oklahoma?

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/08/oklahoma-abortion-online/

new project

I'm going to try writing one haiku per day.
#1

Dark, cold, and rainy
neuroanatomy test
Need more coffee now

Things I spend too much time thinking about

I am overly fascinated by how websites come up with recommendations/suggestions. Today, as I do many days, I was looking at my Amazon recommendations. I've added 2 books that I heard about on The Daily Show. 2. I figured out that Amazon keeps recommending books that have authors interviewed by Jon Stewart. It's like my 6 degrees of separation. I take the title and "recommended because you. . . " and try to figure out how the algorithm connected the 2. Clearly, I have too much time on my hands, post-surgery. This is most fun with movies. Oh, these have the same director or one actor. Most fascinating is people who like this also like this. It's disturbingly accurate. Possibly magic. When facebook does this, it moves to creepy. Mostly because I really do know those people or at least know who they are.


Peace.