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Livejournal is pretty hilarious.

Oh noes it is the attack of the bisexuals!

p.s. entirely unrelated, Justin Long, aka Mac, is dating Drew Barrymore. *giggle*

Guys, I'm in 50 facebook groups.
FIFTY.
That is all.

So, my new scientific calculator is the most gratuitous thing ever. I love it already.
Also, hurray for not failing Chem because I can't use TI scientific calculators!

Edit: In other geek news, I just had a math lecture about Green's Theorem for flux. Two things: (1) Curl and divergence make so much more sense when you think of them as del cross F and del dot F, and (2) Maxwell's equations MAKE INFINITELY MORE SENSE in terms of curl and divergence. Seriously. It's kind of blowing my mind how my physics and math class have suddenly decided to converge and thus result in Maxwell's equations ACTUALLY MAKING SENSE.
Erm, for those of you who understood like, none of that, wait till you take Multivariable Calc and E&M, and then you will see what I mean and it will BLOW YOU AWAY.
Edit, again: Dude, my brother has a Facebook. <3

Oh, it has just come to my attention that I have not told everybody in the world to get a last.fm account. I hope I can compensate for this by telling you all now.
But! Get one if you don't have one already! And add me, I'm impied.
For those of you who don't know, last.fm is this music site that basically collects data about your music listening habits and then recommends stuff. Also, you can do cool things like join groups etc, but me, I'm a sucker for obsessively collecting statistics.
They call it a "social music revolution," so if that sounds more exciting to you than "excessive data on your music listening habits", please go join. Really. It runs in the background and everything.

OK, so I am back from Australia. And I suppose I have many things to say, most importantly that it was cold  there and now I'm sick.
I'll give a real entry later, about music, movies, books (OMG), accents and immigrants. And Australia, I suppose, and my fear of foraging for food. And I still have to finish my "Doctor Who's Gay Agenda" entry.
Anyway.
Go read this article on Sex and Scandal at Duke in Rolling Stone, and then this response by a Duke blogger. Depressing. And rather interesting.
Also, I'm apparently hopeless on politics. I answered "Liberal" and "other" to Niyatee's question... and then explained in the comments, ruminated about Sweden,  Bangladesh and India before Keri and I decided that absurdism does not go well with politics.
So next time you ask me about my politcal views, I'll scoff and declare myself an absurdist.

Right, because I am overdue for an entry, like a woman ten months pregnant. Eventually, I will post that entry that I'm writing about Doctor Who's Gay Agenda, because it totally has a very obvious one, but until then...

I went shopping yesterday (well, really two days ago) for Fahad, which was lots of fun. Seriously. He looks good in EVERYTHING. So now not only is my brother smart, and you know, cool, but he's also prettier than I am. He said some witty things, but I've forgotten them all.
Zara has the best clothes.

Now, a subject that is very dear to me. Tea.
My relationship with tea is a bit of an odd one. You wouldn't suspect it, but it's actually relatively unorthodox. Kind of like the man who tells his friends and colleagues how much he loves his wife every day, and then goes home and proves it to her by indulging in, oh I don't know, BDSM or watersports.
Which is perhaps an image you didn't need, but that's how I am with tea. You'll hear me talk about it rather often, especially if you travel with me or make the mistake of taking me to Starbucks. I like my tea, and I like it in a certain way.
( More nattering on, and pictures )
Oh! Books! I just finished Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman. Tess got it for me, and wow, it is such an amazing, beautiful book. It basically chronicles a set of fictional dreams Einstein had while coming up with general relativity. It sounds like some popular science novel, but actually it's a series of heartbreaking vignettes about different worlds, where time funtions differently.
( The world will end on 26 September 1907. Everyone knows it. )

( For in this world, people have no memories )

Oh! And Alan Lightman teaches at MIT!
Also, you may have noticed that I've temporary adopted Forbes' (and the IB exam writers') tendency to bold key words and phrases. Everybody needs a change.

amanuensis1 has an insight about Harry Potter fandom. As she puts it:

"Hello, and welcome to the HP fandom, where one can request:

Incest
Sex in classrooms
Sex with dead people
Traveling through time to get sex
Parseltongue sex
...

But still add "NO KINK" at the end of the list. ^_^"

Much like the "My fandom warns for het" icon she has. :D

Lee Adama gets it on with the noodles. Seriously.
TOO GOOD TO BE MISSED.