Mine Mind Meandering

Last year, around this time, I went down to the administrative office of my university to pay what I thought was a small overdue notice. I found out that I owed the university several thousand dollars because my dad and I had forgotten to turn in the paperwork for my financial aid. Everything eventually got sorted out, but the next several months were a goddamn nightmare.

So today, I went down to the office to get everything taken care of right off. No surprises, no hidden fees tacked on- everything went smoothly. I happened to mention that I was glad I wasn't having a repeat of last year.
The cashier agreed

uh... what?

Out of the tens of thousands of people you've had come through this office with problems and payments, you remember me?

Alright, it was a good day

Stuff got done

Today, I reluctantly would be the responsible adult and leave the company of my friends to go home and do my stats homework

Two hours later I have progressed exactly two pages and a checkpoint (where I got an 80% and have no idea what I did wrong because i am not allowed to look at the assessment).

I am pissed, tired, upset that I haven't gotten anywhere, and ultimately disheartened.

Fuck being a responsible adult
I'd rather be hanging out with my friends

Stats is lucky there textbook is online, or I would be burning down the department with its pages

Lol

Random fact:

At my university you can check out boxes of human bones for studying purposes

You just have to have them turned back in within a couple of hours rather than a couple of weeks

I've been having troubles doing my homework too. Pure Science is tough shit.

Also the bones thing is cool! Have you done it yet, just for the fun of it?

YES!!!!

what is wrong with me?

Okay, so there is this coffee shop on-campus, in an area that I come through every once in a while
and for the past two years i have been here, one end of the bar held a small ice cream cooler. They served like, 8 flavors of ice cream, and would use it to make floats and stuff. Pretty cool

Well, over the summer, it was getting a face-lift, and they literally didn't open until like, a week ago. I walked through there and stopped for a second

The ice cream cooler had been ripped out

And I have no right to say anything about it- I am not the owner, I am not an employee, I never even bought anything from it, I just thought it was cool- so why am I royally Pissed that there is no more ice cream?

What the actual fuck, brain?

So, lovely update

I did NOT fail my anatomy observation exam

didn't ace it, but I got a much higher grade than I expected

Whoo

C+, calling it.

Why is there exactly one lecture hall that it takes Emilie forever to connect to the internet in?

I fucking love this song:

a couple days ago I was in anatomy observation, learning about the various nuances of the human arm bones. On the table we had a collection of both real bones and plastic models. One set in particular stood out to me, as it was a set of real bones in remarkable shape, but there was something strange about them

They weren't separate. They were all joined

And I asked my TA about it, if the join was a collection of fibers (because I was going on the assumption that all such connective tissue would have been removed or otherwise rotted off by now)

No, says my TA, those came from a man with a disease in which his joints actually ossified together. His arms were frozen like that

...
I am at the same time fascinated and horrified by the fact that the human body would allow this to happen to itself

The night the sky was gold and grey


I like darkness
It hides things. More specifically, it allows you to hide those from the things that you fear. Alas, it also hides us from others, and others from us. And you must never forget that the things you fear are still out there, and now you can’t see them either

Two inquiries for the universe:

1. The story of the 10 Commandments tells that Moses went up the mountain, received the tablets, came back down, saw his people worshiping a statue they made from jewelry, blew it up with the tablets, went BACK up the mountain to receive another set of Commandments, and those are the ones we know today.
My question: what was written on the first set of tablets?
Logic would dictate that they had the same commandments on them as the ones that we know now, but how do we know? No one ever got to read them except God and Moses.
So yes, if something were different, what might it be?


2. Nikola Tesla was experimenting with cryogenic engineering nearly half a century before the field was formalized. Given all of the crazy things the man was capable of inventing (including an earthquake machine that almost destroyed a new york neighborhood when he turned it on), if someone ever found some cryogenic machinery invented by Tesla, what do you think would happen?
Sound like the beginning of a movie to me...

*debates making a new topic to discuss all the dumb fan-characters I've invented in my head all these years*...

2. Watch "Idiocracy"

Something that would be hilarious: a store is closing down, and is running a big close-out sale to get rid of inventory and give bonus paychecks to the employees. However, knowing that the store is going to be closing down within days, the owner tells the employees that they no longer have to put up with anyone’s shit, so long as all the inventory still gets sold.
So they are given pretty much express permission to say all the snarky things they’ve been holding back for years


Today I saw an ad on a bulletin board for a guy who is looking to put together a tabletop gaming group in the area
My reaction: FUCK YEAH!!!
Reads a little further: NOT D&D/Pathfinder
Me: well fuck you tooooooo (walks away flipping the bulletin off over my shoulder)

Ladies and gentlemen, here is what you need to do:
1. Contract your flexor digitorum profundus
2. Contract your flexor digitorum superficialis
3. Contract your flexor pollicis longus
4. Contract your flexor carpi radialus longus and flexor carpi ulnaris longus
5. Pronate
6. Punch ignorance in the goddam face
That is all

I hate people
instance 8887:

So, I am out running tonight, on sidewalks, taking my time but still running a decent pace
I am coming up to a parking lot exit onto the street, and off in the parking lot a car is driving up towards the road.
I'm like, okay, whatever, I'm in full glare of the street lights, this guy can see me coming

He doesn't stop
As I am still running through the (very narrow) entryway, he keeps driving up, right next to me
I'm like, the fuck
So I get a few steps to my left

He keeps coming
the fucker almost literally ran me over, even though A) I was still in the pedestrian crosswalk and had the right of way and B) I know he could fucking see me. Didn't even touch his fucking brakes.

If there had been a brick nearby I would have broken windshield


*Inhales*

On a much less severe note, I have observed something mildly fascinating, and I am not sure if I am more amused or scared by it

I have been driving the same stretch of highway for going on three years now, as many as five days a week, both ways, simply because of school
What I started noticing is that I apparently have the roadway pretty much memorized.

I noticed it as such: On my way home, I have two major landmarks- a roadside truck stop, followed two miles down the road by a toll booth. So when I see the truck stop, I know I am almost home.
Tonight, I was just driving, and as I am driving I pass a sign I see quite often
...when I am driving up to the toll booth
Sure enough, I get over the next hill, and there it is
I have no memory at all of passing the truck stop several miles previous

From what I can guess, I have the basic roadway and landmarks so down-pat that, on this stretch of road, I can completely space out and not go off the road. My mind can subconsciously notice the landmarks and know what to do, so except in certain situations (heavy traffic for example), I don't even notice the road going by most of the time


Okay, thoughts complete

Me paying for a 15 dollar meal at restaurant: Meh

Me paying for a couple of frozen pizzas at Wal Mart (read: less than $5): ohmygodwhyamispendingthismuchmoneyuuuuuuuggggghhhh

okay, i might be a terrible person for this, but frankly i don't care
i've been reading this tumblr blog called i hate customers for a while now, and out of all the bullshit that makes me want to punch people in the face, one really stands out to me:

Customers who barge into a store literally as it is about to close, with the mentality of, oh i got here before closing, so i can take as long as i fucking want to shop here, and they'll just lock up when i leave

And the scenario i really want to go down is have one of these disgusting pricks in the store, and have a guy walk in who was going to rob the place as they were counting the day's take in the back, and he sees this woman, talking on her phone, and sees the pained expressions on the employees' faces, and he just goes, oh fuck no

Walks up to the person, and puts his gun right in their face
and tells them to get the fuck out
And once they inevitably shit their pants and run out of the store, he just looks at the employees, looks at the floor, and just shakes his head and walks out

You are doing holy work.

that moment when you realize that long, baggy clothing only provides more crevices for rice to hide when you accidentally spill your lunch

studying for an anatomy exam, listening to techno

the flexors and extensors of the hand are my mortal enemies

Oh my fucking god, I wanted to kill this girl in my anatomy lab so badly.
So, we get have stations set up for this exam, and a limited amount of time at each one, with some time at the end to go back over ones we had trouble with
so, i go through the entire test, and there are a couple i really need on one specific body, but there is only one person allowed per station, and this girl was already there. Fine, I go to another station, and keep my eye on that one.
Well, another couple of people managed to get ahead of me, so I took a spot in line. First person leaves, guy ahead of me gets on the body, and I am standing a bit off to the side. Suddenly, the girl who was there to begin with walks right past me, and stands directly behind the guy.
Uhm, fuck you in particular matter.
So now, time is running, and I can’t do anything else, because I still have other stations to get back to. So I run around taking care of everything I possibly can, and finally get back in place line.
And as I am standing there- you guessed it- back comes the girl. This time, she didn’t even bother standing in line- she just reached straight over the body, in the way of the guy who is already standing there.
And she is STILL THERE as I am trying to figure out what vein I was being asked to identify.
I swear, the whole time I was just sitting there thinking to myself, Bitch I will make you the next body on this table if you don’t fucking stop that

Uuuuuuuugggghhhhhhhh. So glad that’s over