Last night, I received a random telephone call from a number that I did not recognize and, as is my style, I answered it. My, “Hello” was met with an, “Is this George Waksman?” to which I responded in the affirmative, a response that met with much revelry from the other end of the line. The call eventually turned out to be from some guy who come across my research into Tootsie Roll Pops and taken advantage of the fact that I keep my cell phone number on my homepage. This man was calling because he wanted to know both if I was serious and if I had really eaten all those Tootsie Roll Pops. Not being a lying sort of person, I of course informed the gentleman that I was only kind of serious but that I had in fact eaten all of those Tootsie Roll Pops. The man on the telephone seemed overjoyed by the information that I had just provided him, thanked me and took his leave of the telephone conversation.
Archive for October, 2006
Yesterday, the Internet called
Saturday, October 28th, 2006Funny how I miss a long empty thing
Thursday, October 26th, 2006I was walking back from grabbing a bite to eat and a caffeinated beverage and the return trip had me passing down a hallway when I was suddenly struck by how very short the hallway was. Well, long story short, I found myself missing MIT’s Infinite Corridor. When I’m next in Massachusetts, I’ll have to make a point of walking down that hallway.
All Saints be praised, I’m going blind
Monday, October 23rd, 2006Joy of wonderous joys, my vision has decided to pack its bags and take off for an indefinite vacation. It turns out that I have inherited my mother’s astigmatism as well as having suffered general temporally based degradation of my eyes. Sadly, the days when my left eye was 20/8 and my right eye was 20/12 are gone to be replaced with astigmatism and 20/30 in my left eye and 20/60 in my right eye. On the positive side, I guess, my left eye is still sufficient to have passed a Minnesota driving test and the fantastic blueness of my eyes hasn’t gone anywhere at all. Hopefully glasses will make me look sophisticated, sexy or something else decribed with a positive adjective.
P.S. Getting old and falling apart sucks.
P.P.S. Isn’t 23 too early to start feeling old?
Borderline Assault Roller Derby
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006I went to another roller derby last night and it was even better than the first one. Last nights derby saw our Minnesota Rollergirls facing off against the Dairyland Dolls of Madison, Wisconsin. For a number of reasons, this matchup was substantially more interesting than last times; specifically, the Dairyland Dolls are a team on par with ours, wheras the previous encounter was strongly in our favor and Minnesota has a bit of a rivalry with Wisconsin, a rivalry which I have started buying into in my time here. I am also developing a more refined appreciation for the joy that is roller derby. I freely admit that the reason I went to the first derby was because the idea of chicks on rollerskates running into each other seemed kind of hot and pretty awesome but this time around, I actually understand the rules. While there was still an element of liking that there were a bunch of scantily clad women roller skating in a full contact manner, I found myself taking a great deal of interest in matters of defensive and offensive strategy. I will go so far as to say that last nights match showed me that Minnesota has a fantastic offense with some really spot on jammers but our defense leaves a bit to be desired. Wisconsin, on the other hand, had an absolutely fantastic defense – near impenetrable at times – but their offense is only so-so. Sadly, our strong offense was not enough to take the bout and Wisconsin beat us 60-something to 40-something (I can’t remember exactly). Everything else included, I maintain that roller derby is the best spectator sport ever and that you should all check it out.
Not Yo Momma’s Climate
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006I guess, in a sense though, this is my momma’s climate but that’s not really the point. Today, October 11th, marks the first time that we’ve received snow here in Minneapolis. As I sit here waiting for the feeling to return to my ears, I wanted to let all of you out there in warmer climes know what you’re missing.
The Paper Chase
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006This evening I watched The Paper Chase with a few of the other law students here. For those of you that don’t know, The Paper Chase is about a few law students (one in particular) going through their first year at Harvard Law School, with a particular focus on their contracts class (and it’s professor). If you would like to get some idea of what law school is like, I recommend watching this movie as it has a lot of very accurate elements. In spite of its accuracy, The Paper Chase does not match up with my experience in a few key ways: none of my professors are quite as mean as Professor Kingsfield and none of my classmates are quite as self-servingly cutthroat as most of the other students in the movie. The movie does, however, give a seemingly accurate portrayal of the workload, class structure, stress levels, sleep deprivation and general style of the experience. I should like to add the caveat to everything previously said in this post that I’ve only finished one month of my first term and things could change dramatically between now and finals.
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