Archive for September, 2009

Things not to buy online

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
  • A wife
  • Children
  • Pets
  • Shoes, apparently
  • Used clothing, esp. underwear
  • Happiness
  • A tattoo
  • A kidney
  • Drugs, esp. across state lines
  • Honduran slaves
  • Dominican slaves
  • Bomb-making instructions and ingredients
  • Dignity
  • Penis/breast-enlargement devices
  • Absolution

My ten least favorite social interactions

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
  1. Meeting someone you don’t know in a semi-public place.  So you’re forced to make furtive eye-contact with everyone until you find someone that you think might be them.  So now you have to go up and talk to them, but you really don’t want to talk to anybody that might not be them, so you just stand around looking awkwardly, hoping you can divine to whom you should go speak.
  2. Being forced to talk to a stranger that you don’t find interesting.  Especially if it is a person who you know through someone else that you don’t know or like very much.
  3. Sitting next to a person at the DMV or on the airplane that is just a bit more talkative than you are.
  4. Talking to someone who knows a secret about you.  And you know they know.  And they know you know they know.  But nobody says anything.
  5. Not being able to understand or hear someone… at all.  But they just keep asking questions and you’ve asked them to repeat themselves so many times..
  6. The first time you run into someone after a bad confrontation or situation.
  7. When someone ignores you because neither of you knows how to act around each other, but the ignoring has just passed the subtle point and is now obvious to both parties.  Only they can’t very well stop ignoring you and pretend they didn’t see you, so they keep on doing it anyway.
  8. When you are that somebody (from #7).
  9. Saying goodbye accidentally then being forced to continue walking with someone for a bit because they’re going in the same direction you are.
  10. Accidentally splashing your pants or getting food on your shirt, then being forced to meet someone new or present to a group of people.

Pixel’s Fall 2009 Schedule

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Hi Ashley!

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Sleep Wake Up… sort of Wake Up, Shower, Eat Breakfast, Bike Over to East Campus
Wake Up, Shower, Eat Breakfast, Bike Over to West Campus
Wake Up, Shower, Eat Breakfast
Office 15 minutes Shower TA for
Philosophy of Biology
10:05-11:20
USP Graduate Mentors Meeting

9:30 – 10:30

TA for
Philosophy of Biology

10:05 – 11:20
Eat Breakfast Make it to West Campus Eat Lunch Breathe
Bike Over to West Campus Natural Selection
12:15 – 2:45
Twiddle my thumbs Metaphysics/ Epistemology Proseminar
11:30 – 2:10
Macroevolution
2:50 – 4:05
Go back to East Campus Macroevolution
2:50 – 4:05
Office 15 minutes
Hang out.  Eat Lunch Philosophy of Biology
3:05 – 5:55
Hang out.  Eat Lunch Bike back home
Bike back home Office 15 minutes Bike back home Die
Office 15 minutes Bike back home Hungry Thursdays
(Go out to eat with fellow Philosophers)