On one of my many internet forages, I came across this very interesting article. I actually read about it before this particular NYTimes one, but can’t remember where exactly anymore (the numerous links that one clicks on in a short period of time!)
The research is interesting – the idea that single women find attached men more desirable. The implications of the results are suggestive. But the responses by the readers in the comments section are more entertaining than the actual article itself. 
Just like an hour ago. I was sitting at my desk, and happened to be bouncing my leg (bad habit, I know!), when suddenly my entire desk started trembling, along with everything on it. I stopped and thought, “I can’t have been shaking my leg THAT hard!” But it went on for a few more seconds and then I thought, “Earthquake!”, and if it had gone on any longer, I’d have run to the door, but then it stopped, and then I thought maybe it’s some really heavy vehicle or construction work thing going on outside on the roads that caused the whole place to shake. And so I dismissed it.
Haha okay, I know I’m sounded more excited than hysterical. As if I never experience tremor before or something.
Oh wait. That’s true.
=P
My cat enjoys watching Animal Planet too.
He was quite intrigued by the leopard that was on screen.
The noises from my brother’s room intrigued him too.
(My brother was jamming away on the electric guitar.)
The cat then sat with me for a good fifteen minutes as I watched American Idol. Haha. He gave some weird sounding meows as he was watching Animal Planet earlier. Hope that we didn’t traumatise him. There was a scene of a lion trying to get it on with a lioness. LOL.
“Some of the birds on campus are in mating season and are protective of their nests.
Recently there have been a few cases of birds ’swooping’ people walking through the gardens.
Please be aware that birds may try to attack you during spring.”
LMAO. When I saw this notice on my Student Portal, I was like, “What theeee”. The notice was titled “Attack of the birds!” and I thought it was some weird fundraising or awareness thing that’s going on around campus.
Well, it’s always nice to know that the university has our best interests at heart.
It is rare for me – or probably anyone else for that matter – to indulge in a jovial moment of laughter and actually feel amused at a piece of information in the course of research for an essay.
What I mean is: I’ve been working on my final music history essay, and basically it was a free topic, so obviously I chose a topic which I was interested in. (Although that sucks too, because you don’t really know what to write about, even though you’ve chosen the topic. Nothing comes for “free”, does it?) And while that topic is interesting to read and study about, the research has been a real pain and headache. 
I won’t go into too much musical jargon here, but my topic is about satire in medieval manuscripts, and a bit of focus on the secular and sacred in the Middle Ages. So, anyway, if you know the Lord’s Prayer, look at this bastardization:
Father Bacchus who art in cups, hallowed be good wine. Thy ruination come. Thy turmoil be done in the cup as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our daily drink. And send forth our cups to us as we send forth to our fellow drinkers. And lead us not into drunkenness, but do not deliver us from wine.
I literally LOL-ed when I read it. Basically, a common device of satire in poems and lyric songs of the Middle Ages was the deification of wine and drinks as god, as a way to mock the Church and its liturgical practices (Bacchus was a common name for Drink, in place of Deus, for God – a Latin wordplay). I think those clerics back in the Middle Ages certainly had more fun than we do have now. Don’t you just love this Drinker’s Prayer?
