May 12, 2008
Smooth Criminal
This afternoon, I was overcome by motion sickness...
while using a compound fluorescent microscope.
May 07, 2008
An Improvement
For the last two days, my gym skills have improved. With my new padlock, I haven't locked-myself-out-of-my-locker-wearing-only-a-towel. Instead, yesterday I fell asleep on a gym mat, and this morning I walked into a mirror.
But, at least I was clothed.
May 05, 2008
Naked
This morning at the gym, I accidentally locked myself out of my gym locker. My keys (including the key to my lock), wallet, phone, clothes, shoes, bag, and even my chapstick were all trapped that locker. I had nothing - literally - except a towel.
A friend of mine, also at the gym, dressed in haste, left me his own towel, and ran to get the manager and some clippers to break the lock. While I waited for him to come back, I pondered who would laugh harder about this... my boyfriend or my co-workers. I guessed, but guessed wrong.
While my co-workers laughed harder about it, my boyfriend just wanted to know what I would've done had my friend not been there to leave the locker room and seek help. Would I have walked out of there wearing only a towel and sought the manager or a custodian?
I'm still wondering that myself.
May 01, 2008
May Day
Two men on the streetcar this afternoon were discussing May Day. It took me a few minutes to realize they were talking about the Bond girl from A View to a Kill.
Quoth he: "I mean, who knew it was also a workers' holiday?"
April 29, 2008
Average
You know, pictures like the one above (or videos like this) often leave me dejected about the state of education (and interest in education) in this country.
After all, I consider myself to be an average man in all respects (except for athletic ability, where I'm stuck at the base of the totem pole). No test I've ever taken has labeled me a genius. My intellectual ability and professional achievements are, by all reasonable accounts, ordinary. Completely average. Underwhelming in the face of Ivy League degrees and Nobel laureates.
So, if I know about the 1936 Olympics, and that a supermajority of Israelis are Jewish, am I naive in thinking that most of us know these things? Or do most people not know and not care?
I hope not... I'm not comfortable with the idea that I might be above average at something. If that's the case, then this country has no hope.
