A little poetry (for serious!) and other things.

Two finals done :)

Tomorrow is a day off (though I do have to work and meet with my supervisor), so I can catch up for studying for my other two finals. I also wanted to catch up watching House, but unfortunately there wasn't an episode yesterday, and there isn't going to be another one until January 19th. I'll have to occupy myself with other things until then.


Here's a nice sonnet I wrote a little while ago. It's titled Earthen Sky.


The clouds are lazy, dipping, diving slow,
So each one seems a giant spool of air-
Filled cotton candy. If the world would care
To flip, I could be there, I'd stand below
The ground as cushions made of water blow
Away from here, and I'd be standing there,
On clouds like finest silk, my body bare
But wrapped in fluffy goodness as its clothes.

A throne, my seat below the Earthen Sky,
So soft and gentle, laying down I could
Be watching mountains, oceans floating by
And if my lips allowed escape a sigh,
Contentment, it would signify. I would
Continue there, below the Earthen Sky.


I wrote that last year for a class. I liked it, so I figured I'd post it.


I also have some time, so I figured I'd share a story. About a month ago, a friend of mine and I were gallivanting around Boston, MA. We hadn't seen each other for a few months, and so we had a lot to catch up on. We often like to do random spontaneous things together, so we decided to go to the first Church of the Christian Scientists and check it out. Although we've both lived in Boston for a while, we'd never been there, and it was supposed to have a really cool globe that you walk through there (I had no idea what that would look like before I went), and we figured it would be the first stop on our day of adventure. Let me tell you, that place is AWESOME. I am by no means a Christian Scientist (I mean, I support modern medical tactics so much that I am applying to medical school), but their area is really cool looking. They also have an awesome reflection pool--my friend and I wanted to jump in it, except that it was cold out and it looked like it was snowing. They also have a museum there to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder to Christian Science, and the Mapparium, which is pretty cool to check out--it's a giant glass globe that you walk through. In addition, they have a place in the museum where you can make your own personalize clip-art kind of picture dealing with spirituality and healing. My friend and I had some fun with that. After you make a picture, the picture is displayed on a giant projection screen for a while (at least a 1/2 hour, as we walked by the screen again before we left), so that others in the museum can see it. Basically, if you have time, go to the Christian Science Center and check it out.

After that, we went to this cafe and got lunch. It was some cafe near the Prudential building that serves breakfast all day long, and apparently had a giant fish on the door of the bathroom (I didn't see it, but my friend did). Following this, we walked to the Boston Common just to take a walk; there we saw this man, a dog, and a woman staring in the direction of the dog calling "Maple, maple, came back here." We figured she was calling the dog until the man and the dog walked away, and the woman was still calling for Maple. We then realized she was calling the gray squirrels, and she had a box of peanuts in her hand. We continued walking, but then turned around and sat back down on a bench nearby to watch her. She had names for all the squirrels. My friend thought she might have been an animal rescue person or something, but I think she was just crazy. However, she was dressed in a nice winter ski jacket and khaki's and some hiking boots, so if she was crazy, she was dressed well for a crazy person.

We enjoyed watching her for a little while. She even attempted climbing up one of the trees after one of the squirrels. After a while, the lady's friend showed up, and so we left and went to Newbury and Boylston Streets. Now, we didn't really have any money to buy stuff, but we couldn't help but stop at Filene's Basement. That place has some of the most awkward clothing. We each tried on the same outfit: a pair of hideous Armani pants that were priced at over $3,000 (these black pants with this god-awful red, green and gold pattern on them) and a violent magenta blouse that we couldn't figure how to wrap correctly. When we'd put the clothes on, we came out and laughed at each other. My friend claimed we were wairing pimp's pajamas. I wish I had a picture. PRICELESS.

Finally, we went on a quest for cupcakes, but did not find any. Instead, we walked all the way to Cambridge to some place that had make your own S'mores, which was a decent substitute. That was probably the greatest day of this whole semester, just because it was so spontaneous and amazing. Oh, the things you can do with practically empty pockets and imagination.

Until next time
-Margz

PS--Bio fact: I think I bombed my mammology final, and one of the short answers dealt with an oosik (but I got that one right :) )
But for a real fact (more psychology than biology, but to me they are both interconnected): people remember faces wholistically rather than by parts, which is why facial composites created by witnesses to crimes are often not accurate. (Wells and Hasel, 2007)