It’s the week of pictures and paintings with very strange eyes. The 2004 WVU basketball poster I find eerie, because from far away it looks like there’s something wrong with the player’s right eye–it’s just a little too black.
And outside the Dentistry area in Health Sciences there are paintings of what I presume are former Deans and such, going back years. And for most of them they eyes aren’t quite right. It’s as if one eye was looking in one direction and one eye in another, which might be understandable in one person, but for the school of dentistry to have six or eight Deans (or whoever) all with lazy eye seems slightly improbable.
And I asked other people to look, just to make sure it wasn’t just me. It wasn’t. (Either that or everyone is afraid of me and agreeing in the hopes I’ll go away.)
So now I need to look at all the pictures and posters I go by, to see if tthis is something I’ve been missing all these years.
Turned in my paper yesterday. Either I did a fine job, or I flubbed everything and should have written it in a completely different way. We’ll see.
We saw Fiddler on the Roof last night at the CAC. Believe it or not, I’d never seen it before, so it wasn’t just good, it was also something new to me. Next week we see Ani Defranco. Then nothing until January, when we see Cirque Dreams, Bring in ‘Da Noise, and Branford Marsalis. I’m actually impressed with the University Arts Series this year. There’s some good stuff.
I have to say that it’s really nice to have money to do things like that. All those years of watching the account balance hover dangerously near zero, it’s lovely to realize that we can afford to do fun things every once in awhile. Of course part of it comes from the fact that our vacations are things like visiting museums in DC or driving to Cincinnati to hang out with friends.
Of course if we curbed my book buying and gardening impulses, we’d have even more money, but I’m not willing to go that far.
A friend of mine, who’s an “actual engineer”, tried this and swears it really works…
“Simply send 6 x 10 50 atoms of Hydrogen to the Star System at the top of the list, cross off that star system, then put your Star System at the bottom of the list and send it to 100 other Star Systems. Within one-tenth of a Galactic Rotation you will receive enough hydrogen to power your civilization until entropy reaches its maximum! IT REALLY WORKS!”
Comments are working again, however Blacklist isn’t. Please ignore any spam comments as we fix the problem.
That would, of course, be the royal we.
Since installation of MT Blacklist, commenting seems to be broken. Yippee.
Sorry about the low quality and/or lack of posting. Between Thanksgiving, our anniversary, and trying to finish my paper, time is of a premium, and available slacking time just isn’t going to involve the computer.
Good news is that I’m pretty pleased with my paper, and hope to turn it in this week.
Bad news is that some of the results from my multiphasic blood test from the health screening came back abnormal, so I get to go to the doctor and see if there’s anything wrong. (On the plus side, my cholesterol is 144, so at least I don’t have that to worry about what I eat over the holidays!)
Just updated MT to the latest version. The comment spam was really starting to annoy me, and a fun hobby just shouldn’t be annoying.
As far as I can tell, things are working properly, but if they aren’t please let me know.
One more thing for me to be thankful for yesterday… SNOW!
For absolutely no reason, a list of my favorite DS9 episodes. (It’s not really done, but that’s enough amusement for today.)
My presentation is over. Hopefully my professor is the one determining my grade, not the guests.
My topic was the legality and ethics of physician assisted suicide, and my position was oppposition to physician assisted suicide.
The guests were two members of the WV End of Life Care Center, and a Community Medicine faculty member who seemed to be an advocate of voluntary euthanasia.
(gulp)
At least my classmates seemed impressed by my presentation.
pericat wrote a quiz.
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