stupendous

"Why was I given a toy train if not / to stage stupendous wrecks?"
-Dean Young

Discovery

Eureka

"Science is basically a lot of fighting."
-my physiological psychology professor last Thursday

Marshmallow

"We can’t control the world, but we can control how we think about it.”
-Walter Mischel, creator of the marshmallow test

Kangaroos

"Kangaroos can't hop backwards.  It wasn't funny, but you learned something."
-Daniel Tosh

Today I discovered

I can actually fit very little of my notebook in my mouth.

can you say "oral fixation?"

...And I wonder why I get sick all the time.

I also wonder which of these blog posts I won't be embarrassed by five years from now... or a week from now. 

The reason I want to be a writer

Why have I decided to hope for (and fight for) this ludicrous, irrational, economically-viable-as-turdmobiles career?  I figured it was (slightly) more reasonable than my childhood (and current) aspirations to be an astronaut, a pirate, a tiger, or Batman.