Here I am sporting my timelessly stylish chemistry lab goggles. Indeed, these bad boys protected my precious orbs from severe harm and permanent damage. Now that we have officially had our final Chemistry 105 lab, the laboratory portion is over, and the equipment drawers are turned in, I don't need them anymore...or do I?
The question now is, "What shall I do with them now that I'm not working with dangerous, eye-harming chemicals?" There are so many things out there that would require optical protection as a safety measure, but what do I do most that I would use these for?
The answer: I'll cook with them.
Yes indeed, standard eye-wear for any cooking occasion! Protect your eyes from those pesky hot pepper juices! Tired of getting citrus juice in your eye every time you cook with fruit? I can hear the infomercial now...So with that puzzle solved, I can now move back to some of the important things of current life. Things like the 6 exams, 3 quizzes, final lab report, and religion papers that I have left to do within the next 2 weeks. So, as I move forward, having my mind constantly flooded with new information while reviewing the old information, I can't imagine these next couple of weeks will make my list of top-ten time periods of my life.
I'm very fascinated with my Anatomy and Physiology class. We're going over the brain and nervous system as our final unit and it's just downright interesting. I now know things like what approximate area of the brain is being affected if someone can't articulate their words, what area if they can't interpret language, what part is most likely malfunctioning in criminal sociopaths, so on and so forth. The brain is an amazing hunk of meat, I'll tell you what, despite others' apparent lack of ability to use theirs. I'll give an example:
Have I ever mentioned how much I don't like other drivers on the road? Going home from Idaho Falls Monday night, not only did we hit some major traffic, but we also had one car try to get everyone in my car and everyone in another car killed. I were doing about 65-70mph at one point with two cars ahead of me. The front-most car decided that the the car immediately behind them was following too closely, I guess. The action that the foremost driver decided was best to take- and this is totally genius- was to slam on their brakes. Not tap them to say, "I believe you are following too closely and would appreciate it if you backed off", but slammed them to say, "if you don't move your butt from your current course, you will kill us all." Traveling in the left lane, I was grateful that the right lane had a large enough gap in it to allow the car ahead of us and my car to brake vigorously and swerve out of the path of certain doom. So one driver's lethargic, short-circuited mind-handling facilitated the necessity of skilled use of others' minds.
Aside from that instance of adrenaline-inducing action, I had a great Independence Day and hope you all did, too. The famed fireworks show in Idaho Falls was rather good and the company kept was better. I was exposed to an Australian drink called Peachies and now I'm hooked. Any chance you find these glass bottles of ambrosia, don't pass up the opportunity to partake. Now if you will all excuse me, I have a mountain of work to climb out from underneath of.
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