Various Items of Business

I have no time for this but I feel the need to update my blog anyway. LAME! So we will keep this short and simple just to let you know I am alive and what I am working on.

• I tried to change the template to my blog. Bad idea. Not only do I not have time to go messing with this but I also neglected to save the original template so some of the stuff was lost. Sorry for the inconvenience.
• I am shamelessly soliciting favors. So if anyone finds a nice three column blog template that I can use please let me know. I was thinking red would be nice, since green is getting a bit boring. Oooh or maybe somebody can create a template that automatically changes colors everyday. That would be cool. (And if it printed coupons for free ice cream...)
• I am also looking for an internship in health education to take place this summer. I would like to go out of the country and not go broke in the process. I speak enough spanish to get by so latin American countries are in, as well as Africa. If you all could get on that, that would significantly reduce my stress levels. I need 400 hours, I already have a passport, and it has to be in community health education. Please report back to me by December. Thank you.
• I am running out of creativity. As evidenced by the boringness of this post I have nothing funny to say, or even interesting about my own life. It is all work and school and its true what they say about those things making you a dull person. Once again, sorry for the inconvenience. (Maybe they should put that on my grave when I keel over)
• Despite high levels of stress I am indeed coping ok and I don't think you will need to start engraving the headstone any time soon. Unless you can't find me an internship and then you had better start working on your own. Wait...I mean...uh, keep up the good work! Go team!
• I have not been asked any questions lately, at least not directly, but that may not be such a bad thing, seeing as how I really don't have time to answer them. But a while back one of my teachers used the term "rule of thumb" and then asked nobody in particular where that phrase came from. Well, for your learning and edification I found the answer. There are two really, but one is far more entertaining than the other. The legend is that it came from a judge in England way back when who regulated that a man could legally beat his wife with a stick as long as said stick was no larger than the circumference of his thumb. Hence, the rule of thumb.
• The second (and more likely, since no such law has ever been found in the records) story is that people have always used body parts to measure things, the thumb being one of them. Incidentally, this is why we Americans have such an odd way of measuring things. We never adopted the metric system because even though it is orderly it doesn't rely on comparisons of things we understand the way our system does. Sure there are 1,000 milliliters in a liter (man, I really hope thats right and doesn't expose me as an ignorant American), but how many thumbs are there? (Hopefully none as that would violate health codes. Gross)
• Here is a question for all of you. How do we forget things? I mean, I understand how, but when we have a memory and then we "lose" it, where does it go? It's not like it physically leaves our brains. Is it just like our bedrooms where certain items get misplaced and fall behind the bed and sit there for years collecting dust until we clean things out and find it again? Or is it more like socks in the dryer that don't get misplaced but are sucked into a vortex into another time and place? (We all know this is true and are just waiting for science to catch up. Too bad they are so hung up on the whole evolution thing instead. I am much more interested in finding the land of many socks, myself) Your thoughts will be appreciated. (Until I forget them...)
• Vote. Yes, that is important and it is coming up in two weeks. You can actually participate in early voting as well that has already begun in most places.
• DON'T VOTE FOR... ha, just kidding. I am not the media so I will assume you all have brains and can use them to determine which candidates are best. Just remember that "if you don't vote you're a moron."
• Somebody should offer a course in shorthand. That would be so unbelievably useful.
• Also, after you have finished all those tasks, if you could start a petition to rid the world of daylight savings time that would be great. I would be the first to sign it.
• Ok. Well, thats about all from me. Thanks for listening and I am looking forward to your contributions, especially finding that internship. Have a lovely day.