How should you fix a broken jack-o-lantern?
With a pumpkin patch.
What was the monster’s favorite cereal?
Scream of Wheat.
October 26, 2015
I found a new love
I’ve been poor for so long I don’t usually mess around with “luxury” products like fancy-shmancy soap. However, the company that makes the cheap aloe glycerine soap that you buy in bulk packs for about $0.33 cents a bar stopped making the aloe variety. I don’t want to smell like peaches or white tea, so I bought some bargain deodorant soap, which I’ve used in the past, and is comparably cheap. But, as we enter the alligator season (the time of year when humidity levels fall to minus 50%) my skin, though tending toward oily, is getting too old to handle the harsh deodorant soaps it used to laugh at and just produce a ton more oil. I have been feeling quite tight, itchy and dry of late. And, as it is hard to lotion one’s own back, I decided to live life high on the ol’ hog and try, *GASP* an expensive moisturizing soap.
I bought one bar at the drugstore for $1.69 and felt like I was just flushing cash down the toilet. But, you know what? I really like it. I’ve used it for over two weeks now and decided that it was much better for my skin, plus it smells really nice. Clean. Not fru-fru-y perfume like, but just nice, fresh and clean. Still, $1.69 a bar. I’m pretty poor. I wasn’t sure I wanted to commit to that kind of monthly expense. Then, I Googled it.
Good gravy. What did we ever do before Google?
Well I found this online drugstore called Pharmapacks. You can get it through them for less than a dollar a bar and if you buy in bulk you get free shipping. Still pricey. But hey, I’m worth it.
I did a little more digging and found out that Pharmapacks also carries many other personal hygiene products I have trouble finding elsewhere. So, double score.
October 22, 2015
Thursday Quote Du Jour: Keeping it simple
So apparently this brand of yogurt, Liberte, which is normally crazy expensive but I bought on sale at the Co-op for a deep discount, has a thing for quotes about simplicity. For, lo and behold, I was eating another cup the other day and received this quote on the lid:
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
–Walt Whitman
Having never been a avid reader of Walt Whitman, I cannot comment on his feelings of simplicity. However, I have yet to meet a Liberte flavored yogurt I didn’t like. One might say it is simply delicious.
October 16, 2015
Malapropisms
So this morning I attended my biochemistry lecture where we were talking about how nucleic acids form DNA, translating DNA and protein coding within genes. After that I attended my genetics lecture where we were discussing chromosome inversions and how they can cause crossover errors during meiosis resulting in lost genes and non viable gametes. And, now I have just finished my Virology lab where we were preparing unknown samples of virus for DNA analysis and headed down to work. Once there I turned on my laptop for some tunes and the radio website asked if I wanted to change my genre preferences.
Only I thought it read change my gene preferences.
Considering I just spent most of the day in lab and class talking about DNA, genetic material and genes, I think it makes perfect sense that I’d read change gene preferences. Don’t you?
October 15, 2015
Thursday Quote Du Jour: Nature is no dummy
I stumbled upon this quote, in all places, on the lid of my yogurt
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
-Issac Newton
Now, any one who believed nature to be simple, much less pleased with simplicity, has never studied Biochemistry. Nothing in how nature works at the microscopic/molecular level is simple. It’s actually quite astounding how complicated the things are that we observe as the simple color blue, eating a ripe apple, or even just breathing. It may appear simple because we are only seeing the outcome of a million things happening “behind the scenes,” as it were, to make these things possible and we have grown up taking them for granted. But, I assure you my friends these simple actions are not simple at all.
So, sorry Mr. Newton. Had you known about Biochemistry you would not have felt this way about nature loving simplicity. But you were most definitely right in that she is no dummy.
By the way, I actually did well on my first Biochem test. I’m no mother nature, but not so much a dummy either. I was a nice four points above the average. While my teacher was disappointed with what she felt was a low average, in a tough subject that gets the short end of the the homework time stick, I was pleased to be above average, even if just by four measly points.
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