Wanderings

3:52pm: I am extraordinarily happy.

I really have no right to be, there are all sorts of huge problems in my life.

But at this moment, I feel like I'm full of helium, and I'm only just barely staying on the ground.

3:35pm: My favorite NY Times article ever
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/business/18alaska.html?ref=science


Toksook Bay! My second Alaskan home. Also- awesome!

1:22am: valentine's day, huh?
ironically, i never
liked roses that much

2:50pm: There once was a girl from AK
but nothing convinced her to stay
she went to the city
where things were all pretty
but finds that she's homesick today



The same little girl goes to school
in a place that's a little bit cruel
but she's got some friends here
and some that are queer
and also incredibly cool

11:06am: Who woulda thunk?
"When are we gonna have a maximum wage?" -Big Poppa E.

Right now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/us/politics/05pay.html?hp

12:11am: I wonder where my dreams will take me tonight
Thoughts circulating in my head :

I'm allergic to cherry chapstick.

I'm indulging my slightly stalkeresque qualities.

Klondike bars aren't as good as they were when I was 6.

Dress-up is.

6:48pm: "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
I don't understand why the car companies are investing in electric cars. From what I know about them, they'll go about 100 miles, then need to be charged for 6 hours or so. They're hoping that the families that own two cars will want an electric car as their around town errand car, and have a different one for long distance.

Anyone see any problems with this logic?

First, whether or not Americans drive an average of 35 miles a day, when choosing a car, they will be wanting to get the best for their money, not good-enough-most-of-the-time for the same money (or even more). And people don't have two cars, one for short distances and one for long, they have two cars for two people (or four, or six, as the case may be), and I think the majority of people won't want one of those cars to be a sort of cripple car, that can only do so much.

Also, gas prices are going down, but electricity prices are going up. Not to mention, gas, you can put into your car, and wait to use it when you want it. With an electric car, if you want to make sure it's ready when you want it unexpectedly, you have to keep it plugged in, wasting all sorts of money in electricity. If you want it in the morning, you'll have to go out and plug it in when you go to bed, adding an extra 2 hours of electricity you've waisted, as well as another chore. (I realize that there either is already or will be soon technology that turns off the charger once it's done charging, but it still leeches energy.)

Why not invest in developing hybrid technology. We could incorporate better batteries, and become less and less dependent on the oil, until the technology (and infrastructure like electrical outlets in parking lots that run on meters, or something) improved to such a state that it's actually viable.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like whoever's making these decisions doesn't have a very good idea what they're doing. My roommate, the econ major, suggests having juries make these sorts of decisions. Experts could tell them about different aspects of the decisions, and they could actually focus on this decision (unlike congresspeople and senators who have to learn about so many issues that they can't possibly know much about any of them.) And they would have a better idea how it would impact different Americans, because these juries would almost certainly have more diversity than our government.

3:00am: I honestly find these truly hilarious.

http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/jan2007/msg00059.html

3:57am: Uh-Oh
*Utilizes the American English glottal stop in discribing her reaction to the upcoming Linguistics Tri-term test*

2:56pm: This week's post secrets.

2:41am: A picture of inside Rose
~

5:02am: A lovely Christmas it was. Yes.

5:06pm: Did you know?
The word "ulster" is used more often in the English language than the word "climbed" or "grammar"?

Why don't I remember ever hearing it?

12:00am: There are few sparkling moments of revelation. I don't really believe that the entirety of progress is made during those isolated splotches of inspiration. Instead, there is an underlining fabric of infintesably small moments during which the bulk of mental movement occurs. They are so small, that only an immaterial amount of knowledge can fit inside them, but so numerous that their accumulated mental energy powers our beings.

9:07pm: P.S.
I haven't written anything good since I got into college. And I don't forsee that changing anytime soon as long as I keep up my current class schedule.

I think... something's wrong here. I don't have a solution.

1:41am: It bothers me how much gaining a few pounds bothers me.

11:05pm: I am superwoman. Making dinner and doing laundry and my sosc reading- - all at once.

I know, I'm awesome.

7:06pm: Every once in a while, that little animated computer in the corner of microsof office does something I've never seen before.

He just totally did an air guitar foreward split.

1:48am: Oh, secrets.

6:21pm: Do one thing each day that scares you
I haven't been doing that. I have, however, been doing things that I realized would have scared me before, but don't anymore. I don't think that counts. But what am I afraid of, that I think I should do?

9:46pm: Well this day took an unexpected turn for the worst.

5:09pm: On the Subject of the Wealth of Nations as Imagined by Adam Smith
I'm afraid I could answer this essay question rather smartly (though perhaps not particularly intelligently) in one paragraph. I will have to be especially verbose in order to make it four pages.

Oh well, as my room mate would say, "'Essay' means 'to try', in French!"

6:15pm: Ask and ye shall recieve
Thank you.

8:02pm: Thank you, sir, for calling me "young lady."
Today needs to end, and tomorrow needs to be different.

Yes. Yes, definately.

3:36pm: Did you know?
that while looking at an American bookshelf, you'd tilt your head to the right to read the titles, but while looking at a French bookshelf, you'd tilt it to the left.