To someone whom I love so very much.

Dialética

É claro que a vida é boa
E a alegria, a única indizível emoção
É claro que te acho linda
Em ti bendigo o amor das coisas simples
É claro que te amo
E tenho tudo para ser feliz
Mas acontece que eu sou triste...

Harry, Condoms and Anthropology

I have a great friend. For anonymity's sake, let's call him Harry.

Harry truly is one of the best human beings I know. People who know him would agree.

He was the one who first pointed out to me the golden rule of convenient-stores-condom-arrangements: condoms always go next to headache medicine.


But this entry is about his newest theory (and it's not like he doesn't have a new one every day)...

Anthropology...

I always thought Anthropology only really had one actual theory that it may claim its own:

Cultural relativism (which, by the way, I don't deem to be that great of a theory anyway).

The rest of it is mostly applied linguistics, with some stuff borrowed from psychology.

Now, Harry has a different theory. See, he is taking this anthropology class this semester and ... let's just say it's not his favorite class. He said to me that anthropology is the one discipline that actively seeks to conclude that we do not know - that we do not, cannot, understand.

In fact, he says, anthropology is the only subject area I know that prides itself the most at not knowing... "Oh yeah, I am a good anthropologist, I know that I couldn't possibly understand that culture for I am a middle class western white male"...

I laughed. I think he is right.

Sexy

Bad


better

<3 fall

Thanksgiving!

And then, of course, there was apple cider and 500 pages of reading...

good times.

Elis Regina -

I don't have many idols... But SHE is my greatest idol. ever.

Physics is sexy

what?

Packing

In a few weeks (hopefully) I'll be on a plane... to Holland (?) ... surely to somewhere. And I am only allowed one backpack. Problem: I HAVE TOO MUCH CRAP.

There is the stuff I am keeping for when I loose those extra pounds;
Stuff my grandma gave me that, well, I don't actually use ...
That dress that I only use every 3 years.
That gorgeous outfit that only goes with that purple pairs of shoes I bought specially for it.
That gorgeous pair of shoes that only goes with one outfit.
The clothes that are amazingly comfy but I don't ever dare to wear in public.

SO MUCH CRAP. It all must go...

... and even then... there are more clothes than room on my pack. boo.

Physics

In a nuclear reactor, rods made of boron are used to slow down neutrons to control the nuclear
reactions (the more neutrons flying around, the more fission reactions). Boron has a light
nucleus. Why not use a massive nucleus like lead to slow the neutrons?

Europe : Here we come.

Totally.