hey, something more to add
(without doing anything to make it work on your site, sorry Paras)

I don't know if many of you will get a kick out of this,
but it seems interesting.
MoveOn.org has been running an advertising contest
to create the most informative ads depicting the evils of George Bush
They have the 15 finalists on their site www.bushin30seconds.org
for your viewing pleasure.
Should be some good stuff to go through.

well, Jesse, thanks for the sympathy. So far it hasn't been too bad
but then again, i haven't had that nasty Tuesday yet.
We had to move one of my classes to Tuesday from Wednesday
Renewable Resources is just plain strange that way.

Beck, how often do you think people with well-sculpted bodies like that
evolution man sit in front of their computers completely naked?
It can't possibly be true.... (just for that reason)
hmm... what happened to upright man?
I like the guy standing tall with the stick best, let's go back to that.

(Paras, I have decided to use your provided web space as an area for ranting,
I hope that's okay, well really, whatever.
You wanted definitions of this space, and this appears to be how I see it.)

Anyway, so my student group is having a theme week next week.
We've invited people to come speak for our students
on various topic pertaining to our degrees.
Thus far, we've scheduled 2.
But, 2 more were invited by another member of our group.
He had also arranged to have the Armoury host a fundraiser thing for us.
But he hasn't told any of us any of the details or contact information
and nothing has happened this week
so I basically have NO idea if his presenters are coming,
if they need rooms, nor if we actually have something at the bar on Friday.
arrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!

as for the "with great power comes great responsibility" line,
where's my great power???

and on a less happy note, my mom's going in for surgery today
and i can't feel anything but a sense of foreboding
I know she'll be fine,
and i'm sure it's just my fear of surgery getting to me
but all the same it's really unnerving to feel like something could happen
I need her to stick around for a long long time to come, we all do.

Are we doing anything for Percy's birthday? Strip club?... Just kidding!

In consideration for the people who hate slow loading times, are on slow computers, or use slow connections (and also in consideration for my hapless PgDn button, which has taken many an abuse), I've broken the month down by week. There's a lovely nav bar at the bottom of this page, and at the top of archive pages. Enjoy!

It's so true...

wow, and I thought I was the only one with crazy tues and thurs. I go from 8-3:30 straight. no breaks. the best part of said arangment is that on monday and friday I don't have to come to school(lab on wednesday) I think alisons got me beat though, being the all mighty president and all. ""with great power comes great responsibility." spiderman." (gimpy from undergrads)

whatever you do, don't become president. it's alot of work...
because no one else does it!
okay, a lie. my club is full of really energetic people
and a lot of them do a lot of work for it
BUT some of the people who have agreed to do stuff for the group haven't
and it's causing havoc because I NEED those things to be done
and I need them done and told to ME

I'm going CRAZY!

and then there's class:
I have to drop one because we had to move another into that timeslot
So now my Tuesdays go from 8-12:30 and then 2-6:30.
I have 1 1/2 hours of spare, that's it.
and 9 hours of class.
but I have no classes on Friday!
(Which means I'll be wallowing in bed on those days - or not
usually it means i'm doing all the other work i didn't get done
during the week on campus up early and not enjoying my time off at all.)

Beck, what did that story have to do with "The Lost Art of Healing"?


Hey, so anyone want the sleekness of the iPod without the price, or the giant memory space? Well, Apple answers, with its 4Gb iPod mini, only $249US, in 5 cool colours! And, if you buy it from the Apple Store, you can have it laser engraved at no extra charge! I guess you can only order it from the States, though.

Ah... the tidbits you can pick up from fark.com

Question: Can you imagine circumstances where the loud dripping of plain water into basins set beneath your bed frightens you to death? Clue: You're blindfolded and strapped to the bed.

Answer: In 1936, in India, recounts Nobel Laureate Bernard Lown in "The Lost Art of Healing," an astonishing experiment was conducted on a prisoner condemned to die by hanging. He was given the choice instead of being "exsanguinated," or having his blood let out, because this would be gradual and relatively painless. The victim agreed, was strapped to the bed and blindfolded.
Unbeknownst to him, water containers were attached to the four bedposts and drip buckets set up below. Then after light scratches were made on his four extremities, the fake drip brigade began: First rapidly, then slowly, always loudly. "As the dripping of water stopped, the healthy young man's heart stopped also. He was dead, having lost not a drop of blood."
Dying of fright can occur in one of two ways, explains Dennis Coon in his "Essentials of Psychology, Exploration and Application." The stepped-up heartbeat and other physiological reactions of the "fight-or-flight" response can kill directly; or "parasympathetic rebound" can be deadly, where the body works to calm itself and goes too far the other way, and actually stops the heart. Cases abound of soldiers dying of fright in savage battles or of people dying at other very emotional times. Voodoo deaths also pay testament to the amazing power of the mind over the body.

So we've taken pictures from another planet... Yeah! Lets see if we can get pictures from another dimension...