Mistborn 2

I just finished the second Mistborn book, and I have to say, it was totally AWESOME. John told me after I read the first one that the second was even better, and I admit I doubted. I no longer lack faith. This book gets a huge A+

Now I am the first to admit that the small-scale writing is not amazing. The dialogue and descriptions are sometimes a bit clunky. But the big things are really incredible. The overall story, the side-plots, the characters, the scheming and intrigue...they more than make up for any small problems in wording.

I warn you, though, if you were the kind of person who didn't like Serenity because they killed Wash, you should not read this book. Brandon Sanderson, like Good Ol' Joss, is not afraid to kill a couple characters. Or a lot of characters. Wow.

I can't wait to get my hands on The Hero of Ages...

Merry Christmas!

Well, to all my readers (Sam and John), I wish a merry Christmas. As usual, today we had a Swedish dinner with roast beef and sausages, rice pudding for dessert, and the ritual writing of Christmas poems in between.

My poem was pretty standard for me: not very good, complaining about the rice pudding to come. For no good reason, I'll put my haiku here:

Sausage, Roast Beef, Cheese.
Pickles, Crackers, Gravy, Bread.
No rice pudding, please.

Like I said, not amazing. My favorite was from my niece, Abigail:

Christmas is the time of year
When bells are ringing
And presents
But most of all, Christmas trees.

That girl is going to go places, I tell you.

Anyway, it's Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody.

Wow.

All I can say is wow.

Immunology

Well, I'm studying for my immunology final tomorrow, and I remembered something that Dr. Murray said one day when we were talking about contact viral diseases (for the faint of heart, stop reading now- contact diseases is a nice way to say STDs).

We were talking about transmission of herpes.
Student: "Is it true you can get herpes in the bathroom?"
Dr. Murray: "Sure! I'm not sure why you would go there to have sex, though..."

Ah, immunologists have no shame talking about these things.

Single

Well, it looks like I've rejoined the noble ranks of bachelors. Dang.

Black Friday animals

At this very moment, my friend Jeff is debugging his big Black Friday purchase- a 9 Tb media center PC. Seriously. It's beautiful.

But, thinking about it reminds me of an article I read the other day about some people who became real animals on Black Friday. Apparently, people in New York trampled a Walmart employee to death trying to get in to the store faster. The details of the article are really amazing. Things like the mob ripping the store's front doors off their hinges.

As the man lay dead, with EMTs trying to bring him back to life, the people standing around (the same people who killed him) made fun of him. No joke. These people killed someone to get into the store fastest and buy cheap DVDs, then made fun of him as he died.

That's just sick. What a world.

Dinner with Vader

So, I logged on to Blogger, went to the link for creating a new post, and was then taken away from my computer for a while. Now that I am back, I can't for the life of me remember what it was that I wanted to write about. Something important, no doubt. And since I hate to close the window with nothing posted, I present a bit of wonderful comedy. Enjoy!

The real college experience

So, I've been out with a pretty nasty cold for a couple days, and I realized that I should be grateful. This cold has given me the chance to live the true bachelor life. The real college experience.

Yesterday I woke up at 2PM, ate a bowl of ramen and a whole packet of Jello. Then I lay down on the couch and watched football for a few hours under a couple of blankets. I went back to bed for a brief nap, and woke up in time for another bowl of ramen. Kate scratched my head for a couple hours, then I went to bed.

Today I woke up about 9AM, mixed up another packet of Jello and went back to bed till noon. I woke up, ate my Jello, and nearly made it to church on time. Came home, ate another bowl of ramen, and that about brings us up to now where I am blogging about it.

So in total, in the last 48 hours, I have slept (I mean actually slept, meaning in my bed) about 27, and napped lightly on the couch for several more. I have eaten three bowls of ramen and two packets of Jello. I will probably make some instant pudding before I turn in around 9 for another 12 hours of sleep.

Hurray for college!

A quick misunderstanding from Immunology

Recently in immunology, we learned about a disease called Tularemia. When I first heard the name, I couldn't help but think of Toolaremia, a horrible disease that runs rampant at university campuses, especially those with frats.

Stupid Genomics. Stupid Computer.

Right now I am working on a genomics assignment. Also, I'm about to throw the computer out the window.

All I can say is this: what kind of moron creates a browser with dozens of pages of output, then defaults the scroll button on the mouse to take you back a page? Every time I get a few things found, I have to start over because I try to scroll down with my mouse and it takes me back to the start.

I hate this class.