May 2012
61 posts
Twelve Hours Left
The question is: will everything I have read today stay sharp and clear for the next twelve hours or will it simply dissolve into a haze of half-knowns and unknowns before I can finish the exams?
I am hoping for the former.
This resumes what I’m hoping for concerning the whole content of my knowledge for the Baccalauréat…
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
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-B. F. Skinner (via lickystickypickywe)
The love of reading great books comes naturally once you’ve acquired the priceless love of reading !
The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine →
smithsonianmag.com
The last line of a 17th century poem by John Donne prompted Louise Noble’s quest. “Women,” the line read, are not only “Sweetness and wit,” but “mummy, possessed.”
Sweetness and wit, sure. But mummy? In her search for an explanation, Noble, a lecturer of English at the University of New England in Australia, made a surprising discovery: That word recurs throughout the literature of early modern Europe, from Donne’s “Love’s Alchemy” to Shakespeare’s “Othello” and Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene,” because mummies and other preserved and fresh human remains were a common ingredient in the medicine of that time. In short: Not long ago, Europeans were cannibals.
The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?”
Read more here.
I’m thankful for the evolution of medicine !
What the f*** is gonna happen on the Grey's Anatomy season finale
It seems that all of the original cast members (Meredith, Christina, Alex, Derek, Bailey and Richard) have renewed their contracts. Mark, Jackson, April and Torres aren’t dying either since they weren’t on the plane, so now it’s down to… Lexie or Arizona, both of whom are very badly injured according to the trailer for next week’s episode… And I think it’s gonna be Arizona since she only got on the plane to replace Alex because she was pissed at him for leaving…
One of them is gonna die… and whoever it is, I’m gonna cry :’(
This is what I thought right after the end of the penultimate episode of the season. However, after a little thinking, I realized that when they were gonna kill George O’Malley off, they gave him less and less screen time until nobody even cared about him anymore and then, he decided that he was gonna engage into the army. That was a BIG shocker and next thing we knew, he was dead ! I think (and I really hope I’m wrong) that’s what they’re doing to Lexie. She’s been some sort of a comic-relief (kinda reminded of the Ron Weasley of the HP movies) and then, she gave Mark that speech, that unstructured, more of blurting words speech which gave a whole new level to her character. And now there’s been a massive accident… And I just hope she won’t die…
Idiots !
Client: All our sites are down!
Me: Seems fine here.
Client: We pay you to maintain this stuff, not cause more problems!
Me: I didn’t take your sites down. How do you know it’s my fault?
Client: It can’t be our fault! Our internet doesn’t even seem to be working!
I'm so fucking screwed !
I’ve just experience a very weird feeling. I was trying to work since I pass my baccalauréat in like a month, and, at some point, I don’t know what got into me but I just felt as if I were looking at myself from the outside! I was feeling overwhelming panic getting the best of me since I’m nowhere near ready to pass this exam but looking at this girl, calmly sitting at her table, holding a pen without the shadow of a trimmer in her hand. I… I could’ve yelled, or better yet, I was yelling and trembling… in my head…
It was genuinely disturbing since I’m the kind of person who screams and throws a tantrum when I’m scared and under pressure… Well, I prefer this version of me, it’ll be a lot more useful since I wanna become a freakin surgeon! Anyways, I’m getting back to work ‘cause; like I said, I’m screwed…
