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| My dream of a Denver Broncos super bowl victory lived a short, futile life. I became momentarily enthusiastic when they got past the Patriots, but presumed they would next face the Colts, who would crush them like a Hummer over a rotten banana. But then the Colts also lost, setting up a week of confused sportswriters justifying their failed predictions. So it seemed as though Denver had a real shot, albeit by default. Anyway, Pittsburgh turned out to be neither road-weary nor quarterbacked by Kordell Stewart, and they had a fairly easy time dispatching the Broncos.
Oh well, some gimmicky but fun baseball stuff starts in about six weeks. I can spend the intervening staring-at-TV time catching up on Netflix.
In other news, 11-15 year olds agree, science is not for normal people. | comments: Leave a comment     |
| Amen, 11-15 year olds. Amen.
At one point in my life, when I was about seven, I wanted to be a scientist. I didn't know what a scientist really did (other than wear a white coat and have a lot of bubbling liquids around) but they seemed smart and since I was smart, it was clearly the job for me! This was the same unswerving egotism that made me want to take Latin in seventh grade, because all kinds of terms in medicine and law were Latin, so clearly it was the language for smart people. Then the class got cancelled and I had to settle for French. Darn.
Then I became stupid and unmotivated in eighth grade so all was for nought anyway. | | (Reply) (Thread) |
| Eighth grade crushes many dreams.
If science really was just having the coat and bubbling liquids, everyone would want that job. But it turns out there's math. | | (Reply) (Parent) (Thread) |
| I, too, wanted to be a scientist for a while. I was OK with the math part. The final nail in the coffin was working at the Field Museum. The education half of the internship was great; the science half of it was repetitive and boring. How on earth people can sit at a little table and give that much attention to such tiny things is beyond me.
Y'know, they talk about the tragedy of girls not getting into science. Has anyone considered that maybe they're the SMART ones? | | (Reply) (Thread) |
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