insanity

Wherein I Use My Powers for Evil…

~ Bon Steele ~ 2 Comments
…and totally make a mash-up of Auntie Mame and Dune.
I just want to remind readers that clicking on the links is like seeing a bit of the chaos that lives (and sings, musn’t forget singing – Oh, no. Musn’t.) in my head.

 

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

 

 

Wanna hear something really stupid?  I often fear what people might say or think about me.

According to some of my recent Psychology professors, that makes me both narcissistic AND paranoid. Awesome.
I don’t truly think that this is the truth of the matter.  I think it’s more a case of how I was raised, what I think of myself, and how I insert into the world at large.  That’s not the whole of me, though. That’s not the bits what matter.

I am an adventurer. I am Bene Gesserit. I am Irene Cara singing her heart out and assuring you that you ARE gonna like and remember her. I am a woman with a box unfolding in the top of my head, letting in possibility. The Sleeper has awoken!

Source: http://pantsareterrible.blogspot.com/2010/10/dune-mecca-of-awesome.html

And not just because a sexy man wearing bits of a car tire stepped out of a steam shower.
Noooo.

Heh.
OK. Maybe a LITTLE.

Can we just pause here?

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moving on.

Like those women and adventurers in Herbert’s books – I am ready to test my mettle. To put my hand in the box and see what I can do. See what I am capable of. To see if I can end a sentence without a preposition. no, apparently not.

 

 

 

Life is a banquet someone wise1 once said. It’s time to eat it up!

Source: http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/30/dune-in-candy/

 

 

 

 

 

For she is the Cracked-Up Had-Enough. ;D 
(ooh, maybe the profs WERE right!) 
1 – Mame!  As in MAME!  I’m gonna live forever! I’m gonna learn how to fly! High!

physiology class may well be trying to kill me.

~ Bon Steele ~ 6 Comments

I will keep you apprised. In the meantime, here is a sampling from the “Chapter Five Objectives”.
Enjoy!

** Define the law of mass balance. What equation is used to summarize it? How is it used to maintain homeostasis?

** Describe what we mean when we say that the extracellular and intracellular fluid compartments usually exist in a state of dynamic disequilibrium.

** Distinguish between uniport carriers, symport carriers, and antiport carriers.

** Describe or diagram the structure and mechanism of the Na+-K+-ATPase as an example of primary active transport.

** How does osmolarity differ from molarity? What is the equation used to determine osmolarity? **

Actually, I AM enjoying the class. The teacher is positively *gleeful* about her subject (“…I used to be cool. But then I became the Nephron Nerd.”) She provides a metric ton of material and lectures very well. Which is good because the subject is intense.

I am just glad that I elected to NOT take the 8-week version of the course, like I did with my English Comp II class. 4 stories analyzed and discussed every week; 1 paper per week. Cannot turn in other paper(s) until the previous one is “Accepted”. Oy vey.

So, those two classes plus Spanish will keep me très occupied this semester. At least English falls off the radar after the end of October.

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I’ve already answered these, 🙂