Transfollies Explained

So one topic that's starting to get a little media play but is still very hard for many people to understand, much less accept, is that of transfollicularism. And if you must know, I'm a CTS (curly-to-straight)-female. That means I'm a straight-haired person trapped in the body of a curly-haired individual. Growing up, this was very hard on my mom. As a bio-straight, she tried to teach me to accept my curly self, all the while sending the message that straight hair was pretty.

After spending the last three years of my life attempting to grow my stupid dog-throwup-looking curly hair long for once to see if that helped the situation (far vomity left), I finally broke up with my hair for good. For serious, on a good day I looked like a boring immigrant. So I got "top surgery"—magic secret thermal Japanese hair straightening. Sure it was boring and took six hours BUT now I look like the love child of Tom Petty and Katherine Moennig that I've always known I was inside (see likable picture above right).

Seriously, sticks are coming up to me on the street asking how to get hair this straight. It is great. It is my hope that with a few more documentaries on Sundance, people will eventually come to understand this complex subject. Maybe one day us transfolls will even get represented on The Real World!

I Have Many Passions

Besides just my love of education. For example, I greatly enjoy spaghetti, other pasta, pizza, ice cream, cheese, candy, and other edible items. From time to time I might discuss some of them. Also, I promise to start putting up pictures. SIGH.

Anyway, here is a new yogurt I am obsessed with. Especially the grapefruit lychee situation. It is not flavorfully any better than the Emmi Swiss pink grapefruit kind. But guess what? It has other exciting words attached. They aren't even flavors, they're just things I want! Flavor flavor verb flower? Don't mind if I do! God I love marketing:What I am saying is that I would buy Tomato Yum Rage Spaghetti Love sauce so fast it hurts.

What I Learned About Geiger Counters

So for last week's lab, I arrived to find that most of my group was there early, so they'd gotten started. There were seven or so people (at least three of whom are college graduates, FYI) crowded around a Geiger counter. What's that? It measures radioactivity. How's it work? You basically point a microphone at something, press "start," wait a minute, and then a machine that the microphonish thingy is attached to gives you a number. With me?

Anywho, my group had been working for about half an hour. But they kept getting the same number, no matter what substance they were trying to gauge and what sorts of radioactive shields they put in front of the substance. Dangit! Something must be wrong with the machine! Eventually I took a look at the directions in the lab book, compared it against the setup on our table, and came to a conclusion: The microphone-type part should be pointed at the item you're trying to get a reading for. Our microphone was standing upright, sensor-end pointing straight down. We'd successfully taken eight different readings of the radioactivity level of the desk.

The end!

I'm Changing My Major to Chemastery

Cuz I got a 100 on my test. Mmmhmm that's right and without tutoring even!

But let's get serious for a moment. The bad news is that only one other person got a 100. Memo to the other 20+ people in class*: SERIOUSLY?!

*Does not apply to ESL students. Svetlana is cool with me no matter what.

Week Four: Nuclear Reactivity

Points hit on during tonight's liberal-arts-encompassing lecture in chemistry class:

* In politics, if you know too much, they will kill you. This is just how it is.

* All religions around the world have always had lessons about working with the earth.

* During the good old USSR days, Russia flooded Eastern European nations with millions of Russians. That way when the little countries had elections, a pro-Russian politican would always win.

* Don't cut down trees.

Points we didn't get to:

* The definition of fusion.

The teacher's note on my homework, btw, is "You got to show questions with answers."

I can't believe we're not even a month in.

They Say That When You Are Single, Nothing Smells Worse Than Desperation

Maybe, but it's a close race with Right Guard and Drakkar Noir.

Pick-Up Line Overheard at Community College

"So... do you got any kids?"