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Welcome to my blog! A few facts about me:
I enjoy running, rock-climbing, reading, writing, and anything outdoors!
I can speak conversational French
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While many people, fearing the virus, continued to stay close to home, photographers traveled the world, documenting the world’s turmoil and
12 Dec 2021
It’s not that I don’t care about life, it’s just that I don’t care about my life.
I mean, I do enough to want to learn and socialize at a bare minimum, and I want to graduate college and have deep conversations with people. I also want to travel and do my hobbies.
I just want to be a mom. That’s literally all I want is to be that and have a big family of kids I adopt. Maybe move to Norway. Teach teenage kids philosophy and politics. Make my kids breakfast and talk to them about the world.
But my life? Like right now? I just don’t feel in control of anything. Free will or not, I don’t feel free.
*plays Communist music*
Hebrew word of the day:
Tzedek
People who are in accordance with God’s will;
Attribute of God;
God’s judgement.
08 Dec 2021
GUYS. I HAVE ONE MORE FINAL. My first final was for my upper undergrad politics class. It was 5 essay questions, and it took me 3 hours and 48 minutes. My second final was a portfolio of all my quizzes and projects with written statements for each for my Ecology class. My third final was an interview and short self-assessment for my philosophy class. My final essay tomorrow is for my Criminology class, and I am so ready to just be DONE.
I am getting more hours at work and might consider a second job, but I have to see how I can fit that in with my first one.
As for other things going on in my life, I am no longer vegan. I have started incorporating eggs back into my diet, but I refuse to eat dairy or meat. They just don’t appeal to me. I have been vegan since 2016 and I do not regret my choice in adding eggs.
The café down the street attached to my work has made me salt-free items to purchase, and I bought some gluten free vegan flatbread, hummus, and chocolate pudding.
Dinner recipe (?):
2 slices of flatbread toasted
Tomato paste mixed with herbs de Provence and drops of liquid smoke
*spread the paste on the flatbread*
Poach 2 eggs and put eggs on top of flatbread
Voilà!
Chanukah foods from around the world
I hope next year I won’t be alone for those days.
much like the way the Italians exported pizza and the Americans ruined/perfected it for the Italians to import it back again and then re-export the “authentic” product back to America, so the British took tea from Asia and ruined/perfected it by adding milk and sugar then Asia took that and ruined/perfected it by adding tapioca bubbles and even more sugar and exported it back again.
So what you’re saying is, food is a conversation between cultures.
“your food sucks ass but I can fix it”
I love how both corvids and parrots are in general highly intelligent, but where corvids generally have strict hierarchies, solve disagreements in the pecking order by fighting, and have a strong dislike for anything new or foreign until they figure out how to make use of it, parrots are just here to party.
The New Caledonian crow, who knows how to specifically build a tool in order to build another tool, never engages in play. These motherfuckers are smarter than some people with the right to vote, and they are Extremely Serious Birds. They don’t have time to play, they got work to do and kids to raise.
And then there’s the kea, straight-up titled “clown of the mountains”, that has a specific vocalization for “playtime!”. Scientists decided to try what happens if they play the Play Call for two fully-grown adult keas that are together in an area and can clearly see there is no other, third kea to make the call, and they just go “great idea, disembodied voice! it’s TIME TO FUCKING PARTY!” and start wrestling.
Imagine working really hard in order to make it into a top university to study astrophysics, making it to your first Very Serious Class, sitting down full of serious determination, and the dude next to you is taking notes without using his hands, with a glitter pen he’s shoved up his nose. And his notes are good.
It’s your first day of Bird University and you already fucking hate this guy.
So there’s this gene in humans called PLXNC1 or “Plexin”, right? So Plexin is associated with increased neuron function and is generally thought to be correlated to human’s increased cognitive ability for the use of language, i.e., “language learning”. Super cool, right?
Humans aren’t the only animals with advanced language learning that have Plexin in their genome. We can actually find homologous plexin between humans and PARROTS!
Using genomic alignment search tools, we can actually break down the sequence of human Plexin and directly compare it to PARROT Plexin. This was actually a project I ran for an upper division genomics class, and running the program literally takes like ten minutes. I wanted to see how similar the plexin gene was between humans and parrots, so I queued up the human sequence against all of the available records from parrots sequences and sorted by greatest percent identity (i.e., which bird species had the closest plexin to ours?)
It was this funky dude right here:
THAT’S RIGHT BABY! The kea, notorious for being a straight up motherfucking prank god, carries Plexin with a 79.42% identity comapred to humans’.
THIS LITTLE ASSHOLE HAS A HOMOLOGOUS LANGUAGE LEARNING GENE WITH US. A GENE THAT IS THOUGHT TO BE CORRELATED TO HIGHER LEVEL LEARNING AND INTELLIGENCE. AND THEY USE THEIR INTELLIGENCE TO WREAK HAVOC ON TOURISTS
Also these guys have been found to literally have predictive reasoning skills, which we consider REALLY FUCKING ADVANCED for a lot of animal species. They pass the Aesop’s fable test with flying colors. They’re so goddamn cool, I love them so much. The kea really said: “I will use my superior intelligence to have a good fucking time” and that’s so powerful honestly
03 Dec 2021
I don’t claim to be smart. I don’t claim to understand things that I wish I did.
I try, though. I read the news, I listen to podcasts, I talk to people, I read books. Sometimes I write, sometimes I listen to lectures, and sometimes I don’t do anything.
I am a full time upper undergraduate student majoring in Political Science, and I work full time at a climbing gym. I don’t have friends nearby, and I am the worst at keeping in touch.
My French is terrible, I always forget something, my attention span is embarrassing, and I can barely do multiplication. On top of this, I am almost always sad.
Except despite these things, I love life. Am I a lonely college student who spends a majority of my money on food and other people? Absolutely. Do I consume way too much caffeine and not sleep enough? Don’t @ me.
Wherever you are at life, at whatever pace you are going, just make sure you are doing at least one thing that makes every day enjoyable.
Now I need to go write this paper due tonight. Good luck on finals week.
not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.
28 Nov 2021
Happy Hanukkah! Day one of my first Hanukkah in the year of my conversion process. One side of my family comes from a line of Ashkenazi Jews, but as it happens, people separated and married into other religions.
My family is unaware of my intention to convert, so I will be attending Christmas with them this year and most likely many more.
Either way, I would like to say Chag Urim Sameach! This month has been incredibly busy and stressful. Finals are in 2 weeks, and I have many projects to submit. I finished a 10 page paper on Friday and got 350/350. My birthday was on the 21st, but I worked three shifts that day.
My classes are set for next term, and let’s say I am going to be pulling my hair out for the next few months.
Wishing myself luck for the New Year.
06 Nov 2021
I had a three hour drive to my mom’s, and during my drive I turned on some lectures. One of those lectures went into depth about existence versus living.
You know, many of us go onto higher education and we study and study and study.. we switch majors, we pick minors, we eat the same foods at the same places, and we often find ourselves having these routines down that make life seemingly easier;
As a political science student, I am not like the ones interested in the history of politics or why once thriving institutions collapsed. I am not interested in picking and choosing between theories, debating current events, or stepping forward in my community as a leader.
I have no interest in being a politician or a lawyer or working overseas with the UN. Political science is so much more than just the rich history of politics and the current institutions in place that guide humanity in whatever moral or immoral way they see fit—democracy be damned for some.
Politics are not about living, they are about giving people the chance to exist.
Do we give people the chance to eat? Do we give people safety? Do we give people space to live? Do we give people opportunities to make the means required to survive?
I have my answers to those questions, and they are more than one worded answers.
Anyways, I have attached the lecture below. Don’t be discouraged from listening to it because it is Jewish and maybe you are not. It is an excellent lecture, even for the atheist.
4 Nov 2021
I finished my last midterm in more than 3 hours this morning. It was 5 short essay questions, and my final grade was 94/100. Forgot to check my spelling before hitting submit.
The aftermath consisted of me sending an email to my professor practically begging for full credit on a late assignment due at midnight while unconsciously bitching about my classmates not working as hard as me. Yes, I do realize that is not a nice thing to do. The passive aggressive response of my professor was noted, and I sent an apology back since I began to overthink about how rude I sounded and I hate to imagine people disliking me for any reason. That is one of my biggest flaws. She responded again with a relieving message, basically saying she understand how stressed everything is and to hang in there.
I recovered from this week’s burnout by going home to shower before making my way to the grocery store for makeup wipes and fruit. A couple hours before work, I managed my stress by sloth-ing my way through a series of climbs at the rock gym. By the time I got home at 6pm, I was running on coffee and kombucha.
The rest of the night consisted of me shoving fruit and some salad into my face while watching Freedom Writers. Around 8pm I texted my bestfriend in a fit of anxiety asking her if she thought my email to my professor sounded bitchy, and like the kind bestfriend she is, her response was: “OMG NOOO!”
To ease myself into sleeping, I scrolled through political memes and triple checked my email before finishing Freedom Writers and passing out.
if you want to know how bad marriage is hitler killed himself after less then 40 hours of being married
I feel like there might’ve been some other things going on in his life too, but there’s really no way to be sure
What’s funny is that this actually happened.
I’m unfamiliar with this story please elaborate
Finnish soldier gets separated from the rest of his unit but he’s the only one carrying the emergency amphetamines for the unit, takes too many and goes on a one man rampage for like 2 weeks straight giving the opposing Soviet soldiers nightmares for decades. Oh and he did it all on skis.
Did he survive?
Yes, during his methed up 2-3 week rampage he got injured by a land mine, travelled 400km on skis, and only ate pine buds and a Siberian Jay that he caught which he ate raw. When he made it back to Finnish lines he was taken to a hospital where it was found his heart rate was nearly 200 beats per minute and his weight had dropped to 43kg (94.7lbs).
His name was Aimo Koivunen if you want to look him up
Those are the eyes of a man who has seen god and laughed
