I just finished reading about a new evolving rabies virus that’s been developing over the years in Arizona. Definitely worth taking a look at for those of you with lovable pet friends.
May, 2009
doctah, give me the news
I’m very excited about my appointment tomorrow with my doctor. I’ll finally get to figure out what all is going on! I mean, I know that I’m pregnant since the test I took bragged about its 99.58698% accuracy, but I’m not sure how far along I am or any of that. And I kind of need that information to plan on how many classes I want to take this fall and when I want to schedule my trip to the coast.
I was thinking of visiting in August, but if I’m going to be seven months pregnant, there is no way I’m driving 1000 miles with just Jasbaz as company (if some other important developments take place like they should *fingers crossed*) seeing as how that impertinent girl decided to enter Earth at seven months and I’d have to find a hospital using our GPS and… well, I could go on and on but I think we can all agree that the situation would just be FAR too exciting. Good for future storytelling to be sure, but it might rip what few strands of sanity I have left intact.
Also, the fall classes. So I plan on putting all my decisions on Thursday after I’ve let the information marinate for a while.
But the fact of the matter stands, I had to unbutton my pants about ten minutes ago because my belly was all constricted.
Am I descending into mommy blog territory? =O
MUST OFFSET! I have a joke.
Person #1: You don’t look very good, maybe you have that swine flu?
Person #2: No, I’ve got the Egyptian flu. In about nine months I’ll be a mummy.
ZING! Okay, that didn’t work to transition me back to cool hip young thing territory but it IS funny. Andy laughed when I told it to him yesterday. And not even one of those laughs that are purely for my benefit which can easily be identified because of the shaking of his head and rolling of his eyes. It was a genuine chuckle.
Maybe I should tell it to my doctor! I bet she’ll love some maternity humor. If not, I’ve always got my Bacon and Eggs walk into a bar joke for backup.
why are there no delivery pancake places?
I was going to seriously elaborate on my previous post about matter, the five senses, and all sort of fanciful figments of human imagination. But I seriously cannot focus on anything except pancakes. I was scrolling through my Google Reader (prognosis: it is awesome and I am never going back) and landed on PW’s pancake post and now every fiber of my being is craving pancakes and maple syrup.
UGH!
These Ramen noodles I brought for lunch are not cutting it.
If IHOP delivered, I’d be in business. They’d make so much money at it too. You just have to put the warm syrup in a separate container and BAM, no soggy pancakes. Instant win.
this is why i love science
I just finished reading The Jesus Papers by Michael Baigent and I must say that despite all the anger and retaliation it received, I thought it was a very interesting read. I’m still putting my thoughts together on the whole matter.
Actually as luck would have it, one of my customers and I got to talking about the financial situation of the US which lead to talks on the Government and on we birdwalked until we were talking about the Pope, the Council of Nicea, and raptures experienced by followers.
I don’t think I can fully document how amazing that conversation was for me to be a part of. I love reading controversial ideas about history and so much of the information she believed in, I’d already read about and had background knowledge on. She was a walking encyclopedia on conspiracy theories that ranged the breadth of mankind’s existence. It was thrilling.
Anyway, while we were talking about angels I had an ‘AHA!’ moment in that I linked two different ideas that I’d always been aware of. This semester while studying psychology, we learned about how the eye sees what it sees.
Everything we see right now is the result of wavelengths that bounce around in our eyeballs and hit the fovea (spark notes). Of course, different animals have different abilities on focusing wavelengths. Bees detect different ones than we do, similarly to how dogs can hear different pitches than we can.
Given this information, it is simple deduction that there are wavelengths all around us that at any given time we are not aware of at all. We are just not built to be able to notice them with our senses. That is not to say that because we can’t tell they are there, that they don’t exist.
So if one wanted to believe in angels or fairies or a Heaven in our same astral plane, it would be quite simple to believe if you could wrap your head around the fact that our bodies are not designed to know everything, even about environments which we are most used to, such as our homes.
It’s kind of trippy. But then again, to do that you have to believe that you don’t know everything. And sometimes adults have a really hard time with that.
(will elaborate more on Monday)
learning about babywraps
I got in my Sleepywrap yesterday that I’d ordered (in orange =D).
I got it all set up and started to look around for babylike objects to test it with.
Sunny is about the right size but he started freaking out when I tried to put him in.
Jasbaz watched as I tried to finagle the cat in and after he pranced away in fright, I looked at her. On the site there is a picture of a four year old being held in one of these things… surely she’ll fit. As soon as she saw the idea cross my mind she went running for her bedroom.
She regretted that when I put in one of her babydolls. I don’t know that I’ve seen that much ferocity mustered up in such a short amount of time. She’s fiercely protective of them.
I guess I’ll find out that I’m going it right whenever the baby gets here.