November 2011
58 posts
October 2011
43 posts
feeling nostalgic, hopeful, hesitant, anxious, restless...all because of this beautiful weahter
i can't stop biting the skin around my nails
here we go again. new week, same routine.
“I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t.”
—The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (submitted via Confuzzzled)
"Hell" Explained by a Chemistry Student
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. The answer by one student was so profound that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well:
“Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?”
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student however, wrote the following…
true life: i'm a bitch to my parents. and i don't know why
my eyes keep crying, I just ate dinner and am sleepy, and I have so much french to study for *le sigh*
oh my god i’m at the grocery store and there is a guy in the frozen section who is tweaked off his balls on some kind hallucinatory drug.
i’m in the next isle meowing softly through the cereal boxes where he can’t see me and he is losing his shit pulling pizza boxes out of the freezers and yelling that he needs to save the popsicle cat
am i a bad person
