Serenading by Sparty

I went to listen to the "Spartan Dischords," the male a cappela group on campus. Sparty (our mascot) was, of course, there. He saw my laptop and came over to check out my progress on my chemistry lab report. The boys in that moment broke into a love song. So I have now had the glorious experience of being serenaded by Sparty. What could be more wonderful? A picture will be coming when my friend loads it off his phone. Sparty also wore my cute white hat. It didn't fit him all that well, but watching him insist he wanted to wear it was funny.

PUNishment

Courtesy of Aunt Catherine:
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a-head.'
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
18. It's not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn't have the balls to do it.
19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium, at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes in-verse.
22. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

Schrodinger's Equation

We have reached wave functions in chemistry. It's really fun, because this is what we looked at in my mathematical physics class at Central Michigan University last year. But my chem prof likes to gloss over math...
But I am happy knowing that I know. Math is pretty!

Dare I say

That I'm glad the House turned down the bailout plan? This is likely to be controversial, even among members of the same party. So come on, folks, give me your thoughts.

Arabic Today

Was cancelled....it was sad. So I have a lot of time now, but I don't get to go to Arabic. Tragedy. I suppose I shall go write my formal lab and then do some extra Arabic to take care of my deficiency.

Maximus of Tyre vs. the Bush Doctrine

“if doing wrong is bad, then so too is doing wrong in return...What limit will there then be to the harm done? If the victims of wrongdoing take their revenge, the harm will for ever be transferred from one to the other and perpetuate itself, and one act of wrongdoing will follow another. The same justification by which you allow the victim to take his revenge is equally effective in allowing the right of retaliation to pass back from him to the original offender; the justification is open to both of them equally. For God’s sake, look at what you have brought about! Justice compounded of wrongs! How far will the mischief go? Where will it come to rest? Don’t you realize that this is an inexhaustible source of wickedness that you are opening up, that you are laying down a law that will lead the whole earth into harm? It was just this principle that brought men the great misfortunes of days gone by, armed expeditions of foreigners and Greeks crossing to attack each other, robbing and warring and plundering, and making the preceding wrong their excuse for each new one. The Phoenicians kidnap a royal princess fro Argos; the Greeks kidnap a foreign girl from Colchis; then the Phrygians strike again, taking a Spartan woman from the Peloponnese. It is obvious how ill succeeds ill, how pretexts for war arise, how wrongs multiply. This same process brought Greece into destructive conflict with herself too – self-styled victims of wrongs attacking their neighbours, in inexhaustible rage and undying anger and lust for revenge and moral ignorance.”

MSU Gardens

For those of you who have never been on MSU's campus, its beauty was a major reason for choosing it. It's gorgeous here. There are beautiful gardens everywhere. It's simply a very pretty campus. The Children's Garden has been there forever and I have many fond memories of it. Several years ago, parking there was free, so we would park in the garden before shows at the Wharton, walk around in the garden for a bit, and then stroll over to the theater. There are huge chimes on the ground that you make sound by jumping on top of them, ponds with frogs and fish, things to climb on, water fountains to squirt...it's a glorious place to be a kid. Or a grown-up who wishes he or she was a kid. They added a lot of bricking at one point, and people were able to purchase bricks. We have one for Granna from the grandkids. We can never remember where it is in the garden, though, so we have to hunt everytime.