random thoughts

so now its time for some random thoughts via bullet points!

• 6 days till i will be enjoying sunny weather in LA
• having houseguests interferes with my napping after work
• i hate the fact that i am really good at my job
• i hate my students' parents more
• old people make me uncontrollably sad
• i've been lazy about cooking this week, i don't think next week will be much better
• i really like the foo fighters new album
• the strangest things captivate my students' attention. instead of my planned science lesson today, i spent a half hour discussing why salt water is bad for you
• i find it funny that people think i am confident person
• i want some ketamine
• i want some vanilla coke zero
• i want a pint of mac and jacks. i suppose i will have that in slightly over a week
• i suck at throwing a kickball
• listening to my neighbors fight is more amusing than tv
• i finally got new books to read.
• i like a pinch of salt in my coffee.

 

I've been so lazy with cooking too-- between being busy all day, and just flopping on the couch/bed when I get home, I've just been eating crap on top of crap. Which, of course, makes me feel like crap.

 

why is salt water bad for you?

 

If you drink salt water instead of fresh, it will mess up your osmotic balance. Picture bathtub wrinkly fingers on every single cell in your body. Not to mention that your nerve cells use sodium ions as a means of generating a potential difference (i.e. voltage) across the cell membrane; so that much sodium will also disrupt nervous signals as well.

I don't know which would kill you first, but one will for sure.

 

dave got it. i really don't know why my students were so interested in what would happen if they were on a desert island with no fresh water.

changing lessons on the spur of the moment is one of the things i am good at. i would rather my students are engaged and learning as opposed to forcing them to do a lesson they aren't interested in.

 

^that's the stuff that makes good teachers into excellent teachers