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| Hi whoever reads this...
So the bots are going crazy and I'm going to turn off my RSS feed (unless somebody can tell me how to stop the bots on Xanga?) Maybe I'll switch to another blogging thingamabob. Or just stop. I haven't decided yet...(to not blog for a year might be a new year's resolution for me...)
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| I think I've fallen in love......
*gasp* Who could it be!?!?
The name is Conan, Conan...the Bacterium. :P (Or Deinococcus radiodurans, if you want to be more scientific.)
 (photo cred: Wikipedia)
hehe. I don't know if this is a sad turn of events or not...that is, me falling for* a teeny-tiny-so-microscopic-that-you-can't-see-it-with-your-naked-eye organism. But what can I say? Its super-duper fascinating. I've been reading a couple articles** about D. radiodurans for a class presentation and it's just really amazing. It can withstand dessication, cold, acid, AND radiation! A gajillion times more radiation than humans, not just like...a couple more. It's like...how the heck do you do that? How do you even exist???? If countries ever get into a nuclear war and everyone dies off because of the radiation...this bacterium will likely still be alive. Isn't that crazy?
It has now ousted Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as my favorite microorganism.
*I'm just kidding. It's not love...it's more of a wonderment. ;) One simply cannot get crushes on bacteria like one does on boys.
**here are two less technical articles (in addition to the link above)...for your general knowledge:
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/07_02/deinococcus.shtml
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3243 <--they encoded "It's a small world" into the genome. Scientists are fun. :)
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| Today, in class, I was sitting behind this guy and he did something that startled me. He took off his sweater.
I guess under most circumstances this isn't actually something to be startled by -- it's pretty normal to take off one's sweater. However, I don't think this falls under "most circumstances" because in most circumstances, there would be something underneath. For this guy, that was not the case. He took off his sweater and there was N-O-T-H-I-N-G.  It was just so unexpected, ya knows? You expect someone taking clothes off *in class* would be just shedding his outer layer (especially given today's weather) and had an inner layer.........buuuuuut nope! No inner layer. Not even a undershirt. Just skin. It was like, "Woa! You're not wearing anything under that!"
He sat during the last 10 minutes-or-so of class top-less (can you imagine a girl doing that?).
Perhaps his shirt was wet from the rain and he didn't like the sticky dampness (I don't like having wet socks and sitting through lecture, so I can sorta understand that?) or he saw that he put his sweater on wrong and he wanted to wear it correctly but got distracted by what the professor was saying....something. I dunnoes. It was sorta strange (and a little distracting). ::shrug:: To each his own.
He had a pretty nice tan. :P Maybe he wanted to show off.
What an eventful day. Pouring rain and flashing skin?
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