Today, and today, and today. Or rather, yesterday: it's quite late.

I was biking today to work when I saw two birds tumble out of the air right past me. At first I thought I'd scared them (there are a pair of quail-like birds that act like pheasants--meaning that they scare me half to death each time) and then I realized that they were fighting. A robin and a pigeon--and the pigeon must have been eight, nine times bigger than the other bird. And yet the robin kept flying up to a tree, then diving down to strafe the pigeon. Repeatedly. And in the end, the pigeon gave up and flew to another tree, some ways away, while the robin taunted it. Strange: I expected it to be the other way around.


Not going to elaborate on my other thing--the casual use of the term "Nazi". I would like to say, right now, that anyone using it is one of the following: a) horrendously ignorant, b) flippant. Horrifically so. Let me tell you, that despite the intervening seventy and eighty years (or more; it depends on the dates you use), the term "Nazi" is still incredibly loaded. It carries heavy, heavy negative connotations, and it calls up inexpressibly twisted actions. Do not use the word "Feminazi".

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I have just assimilated a thwack of information (if you want to know stuff about cellular respiration, photosynthesis, biochemistry--at an intermediate level, of course) you can ask me. But other than that, the only thing I really remember about today was that it was nice outside. So much that I regretted carrying my coat, and decided to sit at the window seat on the bus to be in the pool of sunshine.

And other than the little clock in my mind going: "OH MY GOD THERE'S LESS THAN FORTY - EIGHT HOURS UNTIL THE PAPERS AND HALF OF THAT'S GOING TO BE SLEEP," I feel remarkably rational. Although I have to admit, the exploding (400 comments on the first page! It's got to be a record) on ffrantsrants was making me completely agog. I have no words. No words.