Evolution and Mountain Dew

I really like mountain dew. Especially the livewire one. You know, the kind with the orange flavor in it. I think they stopped making it or something, but the store near us still sells it. Sometimes I wonder if they didn’t just buy a really big case of it and just haven’t gone through it yet. I also wonder how old the snickers with almonds are. Oh, and my parents brought me some of those after dinner mints. Those ones that look like little mouse pillows. Not mouse poos, but little pillows. I love them. The texture is amazing-- they’re like eating soft chalk.

I like sour pickles better than the sweet ones.

I read a really terrible book recently, and in it the author had a character mention the fact that women can tuck their legs up under themselves, but men can’t. The statement niggled at me for a few days before I realized that most of the men folk on my mom’s side of the family can actually put their legs under themselves. In fact, my cousin (who is quite a bit older than I am) often sits on the floor with his knees on the floor and his feet near his butt (just the way my sister and I prefer to sit on the floor). Ah well, I suppose I should just chalk it up to artistic license and let it go.

I feel prettier than normal when I wear purple. I don’t know why this is true, but it is. Whenever I acknowledge this, it briefly makes me wonder if it’s because I’m actually a tyrannical ruler in Rome or something. This feeling passes quickly.

The child in me is continuously delighted with the dinosaurs that have been uncovered with feathers. I had a discussion with my physics lab partner last week where she mentioned that she didn’t enjoy the biology class that she was in because it was about evolution, and thus boring. I was shocked and a little confused, because that has been my favorite subject since I was little (when I would watch shows about dinosaurs on the Discovery channel, where they would drag out the archaeopteryx fossils and talk about birds). When I pressed her for her reasoning, she just said something about how she didn’t like the professor. I think what blew me away about it was the idea that everyone on earth does not find the mechanisms behind evolution as completely compelling and fascinating as I do. This should not have come as a surprise to me, but it did. I guess my self-absorption is showing.

Oops.