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Monday, January 21, 2008

Pack a bag and wander 

Sometimes it feels like a wilderness down here on earth, with every passer-by throwing out a half-baked explanation about something that somehow worked for them but is sadly untransferrable. Well I've had my little rant about it, I suppose all there is to do at this point is keep His commandments and wait for the fog to clear.

Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Tired and... tired. 

Howling wind of Loveland. Brain flatlined about an hour ago. Maybe the most important thing to know for today is that chloramphenical can cause aplastic anemia. I don't need to remember the orange kitty that had to die, I don't need to think about the neurologic pigeon that Mr. Furrball probably found and ate today, I should think about discussing cofilin with an intelligent audience but nobody can make me do that right now. Shoot, I don't actually WANT to do anything right now except stare straight ahead. Creativity, where hath thou gone? Into the tomb of science. I'm still not comfortable with neurologic being an adjective, or even a word.

I keep dreaming about giving very realistic speeches to people who are making bad life decisions. These kinds of dreams would be more useful if directed at self. I still seem to be the only person I can control. Last Sunday I got a nice little thought from a girl at church though... Jesus actually loves my friends and family more than I do. That is a hopeful scenario, as when I'm out of ideas He can keep working on them. If I could just have a coffee with Him.... Speaking of church... nyeh, don't want to think about that right now either. I can't figure out what is going ON, I think I'll spend tonight kicking back in the easy chair of God's sovereignty. Dude, that's what everybody is doing, even the people who don't strike me as lazy.

Actually I do want to remember something about that kitty. Pancreatitis, hepatic lipidosis and heart murmur are a... crap what did he say they were? Something like the deathly triad, or some other sinister name.

Tomorrow is another day, I'm going to go sit in that corner over there and try not to think about it. How shall I make a neuron wake up? Revelation? Perhaps I shall let it sleep.

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Catch up 2008 

I'm in a rare form. I think I read enough papers about fruit flies today to stir the depths of the darkest corners of my alleged mind. I have popcorn too, so we'll have to see what this cosmic combination of mental history and diet can conjure.

Politics is droning along on NPR, and thank the good Lord there is always an over-serious talking head available to tell me that someone may or may not lose in the primaries. They do this in sports as well... I guess that is what the majority of the population must need to know. What MIGHT happen. The difference is that the sports people tend to make reasonably good predictions in a relatively curious and interested frame of mind. NPR people seem to be a bit more on the edge of a potential mental breakdown. I am currently in a life phase of needing to cut back on the number of things I worry about that are beyond my control, so my political hissy fits are in remission. With interest I note that Giuliani is not really taking the show. That's fine with me.

My most recent interesting discovery is that Benazir Bhutto has a 19-yr-old son! I missed that memo about that. Hmm. All is not lost? I don't know. But that's cool.

So anyway, I am currently trying to garner enough information about flies to burst a brain abscess a.k.a. write the introduction to two papers and a thesis about a poor little protein that never really deserved all the attention I gave it. Running thesis title... "Drosophila ADF/cofilin: a potentially interesting protein in synaptic transmission." This is the glass-half-full view. A little faith MUST be applied to get through life in one piece. It's always better to put your faith in something solid though, so rather than putting faith in ADF/cofilin I am practicing putting faith in my God-given ability to make stone soup. There is a reason that was one of my favorite stories growing up.

In other random thought processes... I have hit an interesting point of interest in my studies of the beginning of the world. I skipped past those recurrent ideas that there may have been more than one Adam, because I can't seem to get anywhere definite everytime I entertain them, but I DO have to pause and wonder how the sacrifices started. It's definitely a norm later on, and an excellent lead-in/switchover to Jesus' final sacrifice, but as far as I can tell Cain and Abel just started doing it. Maybe a case of simple unincorporated Biblical detail, but it also is tainted with a bit of wonder at how the God I respect so much managed to start that up in an acceptable way to His people. Did He explain Himself? Was it obvious? Anyway, it's not keeping me up at night but I wonder about it.

Now I have to go to a basketball game and read more papers there. Two more weeks! TWO MORE WEEKS! Biology of disease, parasites, viruses, bacteria, fungi, what more could a soul desire to be completely happy??? And I walked a llama and a goat and a calf today. Life is good.

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