elfination

Okay, I’ve heard this debate for a while…

I honestly have thought that the Islamic Community of New York wanted to build a MOSQUE somewhere like, across the street or something, from Ground Zero. I thought, “meh? That’d probably weird people out, but hey. Free country.”

Turns out….

A) it’s not a Mosque. (It’s a community center.)
B) it’s not even at Ground Zero. (It’s several blocks away.)

Thank you to Cracked.com for the following article:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-reasons-the-ground-zero-mosque-debate-makes-no-sense/

This is why I don’t get bent-out-of-shape about this kind of thing…. there are always REAL FACTUAL DETAILS that the press seems to leave out….

–Emily

I love school.

Over the summer, I began to wonder what it was I liked about school… the classes I was taking were just so PLEH.

But then I got back into REAL classes:

Vertebrate Reproduction (BYS 318)
Astrobiology (AST 210)
Psychobiology (BYS 437)
Organic Chemistry 2 (CH 332)
Organic Chem 2 Lab (Ch 336)

It’s 13 credit hours, and I’m LOVING IT. I’m absolutely enthralled. This term, it’s ALL ABOUT HORMONES. Vertebrate Reproduction - we’re studying cortisol, androgens, estrogens, and progestins; Psychobiology covers just about ALL of the pituitary hormones… and the Organic Chem is the STRUCTURES of all that stuff.
(Astrobiology is kind of a different story, but no worries, it’s still plenty fun!)

I’m just so happy to be back in the saddle.

Well… I’ve got a few free days ’til school starts for Fall term. So I’m cleaning / rearranging the apartment in anticipation of COMPLETELY NEGLECTING IT for four months. I’m boosting shelves up on top of shelves, just to get as much vertical space used as possible. It’s a challenge, but it seems to be working out thus far.

The apartment is a complete WRECK right now, though. There’s NO floor space. There’s NOWHERE to walk. And KB is discovering things he hasn’t peed on yet… so he’s been busy.

I need to find some open wall space to put up my big school calendar. I’m getting organized, really. I can’t wait to have a really nice awesomely clean, organized apartment… I might be afraid to touch things if it’s TOO good, though.

–Em

Ok, one of many incredibly good T-shirts. But still.

Threadless.com has this design available:

And my sister, who’s the best sister in teh werld, who’s coming to the area to visit (she’s got friends down here, too…) is getting me one.

THANK YOU, AMY!! *HUGGLES*

Other things I would like to see on the website: an accurate list of buildings with the abbreviations that seem to show up in the registration system. ‘Cause I have no clue sometimes.

An article on Yahoo News about the Large Hadron Collider discussed progress toward understanding the elusive Higgs boson. Within the article, the Higgs boson is referred to as “the God particle.” This of course sparked off a huge rant about God, the nature of God, the existence of God, et cetera.

Favorite comment EVAR:

“Brenticulus: Wow. I find it strange that a rather religion-neutral article about high-energy physics started such a rant about religion. Do any of you realize that referring to the Higgs boson as “the God particle” is really just an arbitrary name for it? Imagine that the Higgs boson had taken on the name “the Lamb particle.”

Having a degree in physics, this is what all this religious hoopla sounds like from my point of view.”

It shall henceforth be called the Lamb particle. Woot!

–Em

We were in Java class discussing the final exam (due on the 30th). And we’d talked about initializing an array, in the past.

Well, you can have a more-than-one dimension array! Like… A TWO-dimensional array (columns and rows)

Which is like working on matrices, explained our instructor.

Only, he’s got this accent. And he didn’t say “Matrices”, he said (I swear) “Mattresses”.

Well, when I’m done with this stupid term paper for my english class… I’d like to explore a three-dimensional mattress, since the one on my foldycouchbed is kinda … flat.

–Em

Virgo: 18 July 2010: “You are attempting to live your life within the limitations of other people’s ideas, rules and expectations now. But it’s not always a smart idea to color within the lines of your coloring book. Extending beyond your current boundaries should prove to be quite exciting, especially if you are willing to let your emotions be your guide.”

Um.. thanks, horoscope, for your permission. Seems like I do this a lot.

If I “color outside the lines” just because my horoscope says to, am I attempting to live within others’ expectations, or not? Hmm.