February 29, 2004
Today is Leap Day. Yesterday was my birthday. I thought I’d go ahead and blog about this. Most people who find out that I was born on February 28th comment on the leap year thing. They usually say something about it being a close call or something of that sort.
I can’t help thinking though… it wasn’t a close call. It was the wrong year. In fact, it was a long shot. Almost everyone I know was a lot closer to being born on leap year than I was. I am 730 days away from leap year either way around the calendar you go. Also, I was born around eleven in the evening, so there are only two hours were one can get farther from being a leap year baby. I guess in that way one can comment on something about my birthday that is somewhat special.
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February 28, 2004
Today is my birthday, and I have a ton of work to do. It actually is just four things, but these four things are very thought intensive and time consuming. To make matters worse, I am faced with a near constant stream of interruption. This is, of course, appreciated, because I do like the well wishes and the love, but it also makes getting my work done a whole lot harder.
Fortunately, this is my last year at University of Florida, which is probably the only school that has Spring Break in early march. So, I won’t normally have a mid-term load of work resting on my shoulders on my birthdays any longer.
Also fortunate — my parents called and told me to go ahead and go out to eat “on [them]” tonight. Now the question remains… where does someone as indicisive and maximizistic as me go to eat a birthday dinner?
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February 27, 2004
‘I’m not complaining; I’m describing my symptoms.’
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February 25, 2004
After reading many reviews and criticisms of The Passion and having seen the movie, the one thing that I am suprised by is the lack of any parrallels drawn from Mel Gibson’s latest movie and Braveheart. If I were an upstart critic I think I’d be very tempted to point out that Mel might have some sort of thing for on screen torture and brutality.
In both movies we have martyrs being brutalized by oppressive powers that don’t want change towards the very end of the movie. I think both scenes played out similarly too — with cuts to the life that is flashing by.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it… I guess that answers my question as to why no one wrote about this. It doesn’t exactly take up a 1,000 word column.
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February 25, 2004
Last night I briefly discussed with Megan and Jenn the seemingly widely held view that many media outlets had a liberal bias.
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February 25, 2004
I am nearly finished with my degree program at the University of Florida (just two more months!) and one thing that has really impacted me the entire time I’ve been here is how different I seem to be.
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February 24, 2004
Part of me is going to die soon. In a few months I will graduate and immediately move on to the next stage of my life. This life that I have been living will pass from me as if this particular instance of me has died.
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February 22, 2004
How cool is this!?!
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February 21, 2004
When was the last time you…
1. …went to the doctor?
2. …went to the dentist?
3. …filled your gas tank?
4. …got enough sleep?
5. …backed up your computer?
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February 18, 2004
I am taking ANT2301: Human Sexuality this semester, and I am learning a great deal about sexuality from an Anthropological, Evolutionary, Cross-Cultural perspective grounded in scientific research conducted via sampling, interviews, surveys, observation, field-work, experimentation, case studies, and laboratory research. (What a mouthful!)
This is all very fascinating to me, especially now as I am working on writing a paper for the class. So it gets me thinking about things that are kind of off-topic and sometimes critical of the perspectives used in the book and in the class.
One conclusion that occurred to me just now is that these Anthropologists would likely OK something such as file-sharing along all the same grounds that they OK homosexuality.
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