I didn't finish my rug. damn damn and double damn. I can't seem to stick with any knitting project so far this year. It's very disconcerting. It's like I'm itching to bust out of my skin at any minute and if I don't I will explode. It's hard to explain.

I've lost 70lbs so far and I am starting to see deflated balloon skin in places, mostly my arms and it makes me feel a little like barfing sometimes. Sigh.

Oh well.

So on to school. We had to read an essay by Michel Foucalt (Panopticism) which although it made my head hurt, it had ever so many delicious tidbits of information in it that it seriously sparked my imagination. The beginning of the essay was about quarantine procedures during the time of the plague and so I ended up buying 2 books on the plague during break today (yeah I know, for shame) and even more of it had to do with the Panopticon design for a prison (see below.)

I was very interested in the ideas behind this, and in a little bit of serendipity, this morning on the radio Bill Handel was talking about the Japanese death penalty and how the people on "death row" there are not warned in advance as to when their execution will take place. It seemed a very tidy similarity to the watched not knowing when they were being watched in the design on the Panopticon. Then I was thinking about what intrigued me more about the Panopticon, the chance of being seen (exhibitionism) or the chance to be an unseen seer (voyeurism) and I kind of languidly declined from there as far as reason goes.

In astronomy lab today we calculated the velocity of stars in binary systems, which was fun since I like using my $16 calculator that I bought for statistics. :) And in human sex we watched a video on David Reimer and while most of it was interesting some of it was just nasty, especially the bits where they were shaving slices of rat brain to see if the brains of men and women differed. I was glad class ended early. very glad.

And finally.

I have yet. another. blog.

Dr. Gramaphobe: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Research Paper
Ah, isn't life grand. Barry wanted me to make it Dr. Seusslove... so I might change it. But anyways, I will be posting stuff on there with regularity and I will be putting up some of my papers because yes, I am just that damn egocentric that I would stick a paper up so people would read it. Preferably before I turn it in since I just re-read paper 1 for this semester and although I got a good grade I was shocked at my apparent inability to know when to is actually too. Grrrr