Listening to: Meat Loaf- Bat Out of Hell
Reading: Ransom Julie Garwood
Weather: sunny, low 40’s
Trivia: If pigs are mammals, and all mammals have hair, why don't pigs
have hair?
Pig do have hair, it's just the same color as their epidermis. For example, a Chester White pig has white hair while a Berkshire pig has both black and white hair. The classic pink Duroc pig, long celebrated in storybooks nationwide as "the" pig has, of course, pink hair. Additionally, pig's hair lays down and is very fine causing them to not appear at all "fuzzy."
Cool word: meme [n. MEEM]
A meme is an idea that spreads itself from one mind to another, competing with other ideas to be held by the minds within which it lives. Memes are the basic building blocks of culture, just as genes are the basic building blocks of organic life. The study of memes is
called memetics [n. meh-MEH-tiks]. This simple little word is so new it does not appear in most dictionaries, yet memetics has quickly become an important field of study. The basic idea of the meme (and the word) was introduced in 1976 by Richard Dawkins in his book "The Selfish Gene." Dawkins argued that ideas follow some of the same evolutionary laws as genes, competing for limited resources (minds) and passing themselves on to subsequent generations, while evolving to be more fit for survival.
Heaps
I have the most enormous stack of work that absolutely, positively HAS to be done by 2.30 tomorrow afternoon and I’m never going to make it.
It’s my own fault, the narrative progress reports that I have to do for each special education goal on their ed plan. Most have three, several have four or five. I’m barely making a dent in the pile and I’m already running out of inspirational things to say.
I’m going to have to really sit and concentrate, but it takes ages to do each one, and I’m hating each moment of it.
I didn’t sleep last night. I don’t know if I’m coming down with something or if I’m just over tired. Every bone and muscle in my body was aching, so I even took three Advil before I went to bed. Normally that will knock me out for most of the night, but I was up watching t.v, or tossing and turning.
This really stinks, as I am in one heck of a crummy mood, and I can attribute a big chunk of it to lack of sleep.
The rest is just my inner orneriness. Not a word I’m sure.
So this is another short entry. I have to be responsible and get this work done. I’ve completed seventeen three page reports, and have sixteen four or five pagers left.
If this happens it will be a miracle.
That’s what I get for being a procrastinator and an avoider extrodinaire!
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