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Thursday, November 11, 2004 Bits of a Scattered Mind This morning, a librarian interrupted me in the midst of studying and held up a plant in a vase. "Do you think this looks good in this planter?" How the heck should I know? I have zero decorating sensibility. So my smart answer was an, "Err..." She dunked the plant on top of the desk and went off to retrieve a couple more plants. "Do you think these will look better in it?" "I think they're a little too short for this vase," I replied. I had decided to just make something up so she could go away. "You're probably right." She picked up the plant in the vase and wandered off, this time debating to herself where to put the plant. Whew. Pharyngula says: "You know, the only biological advantage to males is that females need us; we’re really a kind of sexual parasite that takes advantage of the female investment in energy and apparatus to reproduce cheaply." Thank you for reminding me of something that will probably morph into a nightmarish symbol for my school work that will haunt me in the 30 minutes of sleep I will get tonight: Anglerfish! Anglerfish! and More anglerfish! Hopefully they will be no worse than the fast-moving, sentient bacteria I dreamed up about a month or two ago. Or the giant toad-sized spider I squashed in my dreams last week--only to have a million tiny spiders erupt from the corpse. Oh yeah, combined with the nightmares I mentioned in the last post, you probably don't want to see what's broiling in my subconscious right now. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 11:02 AM : ]
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