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Precisely after I vowed to be more cognisant of my immediate surroundings, I realize the small, dome-shaped object I'm staring at appears to be someone's missing acrylic finger nail. Lying near the doors of the B-line, dirt gathering in linear mounds along the rounded edges, the nail looks dully comical. The doors of the bus swing open and brush addition grime up against the nail- polished a glitter-flecked silver color, tipped with frosted pink- French manicure a la mobile home.

Sitting in a dirt nest, the finger nail is reminiscent of some D-list, low-budget horror film, in which one of the supporting characters, distressed, comes across a severed human finger in some unexpected place- such as their garburator, glove-box, or medicine cabinet.

and that was the 8am bus ride to integral calculus this morning.

shorts- what I have to say about them:

I just don't think that shorts are acceptable...ever. The only time I believe it's ok to wear pants that are "too short", is when they are made out of frilly lace, and are so short they crawl up your ass as you walk around Sin City. 

This excludes skirts of course. Let's be clear. Skirts are not shorts...shorts are evil.

Sometimes I wonder is there's a reason I have it in for shorts...I contemplate whether or not shorts would be acceptable if I had Elle MacPherson's gams. 

I just don't know....

They are just unacceptable as far as I'm concerned...unless they are worn in the context stated above, or are made from tweed, you are a six-foot tall anorexic person, with some crazy colored tights worn underneath, topped off with a pair of those killer snakeskin Louboutin platforms...

The importance of Exfoliation

I don't care what “Glamour” magazine has to say about it...there is something wonderful about refusing to wash your makeup off for four day straight (and just continually Spackle-ing on new stuff over top of the old stuff every morning like stucco), and then when it get's to the point where it's just too much (there are little black things sticking to the grease in the creases of your nostrils, and it has become apparent that you are molting- a phenomena not meant to be displayed by any human being) you scrub your face until you resemble a horrifyingly sun-burnt hairless cat...

And then when your face looks like a stop sign, you smother a thick-assed layer of shity drug-store facial (or body...depending on your budget) cream all over, before proceeding to the front porch with your laptop, and your dishevelled hair up in a ramshackle bun, where you sit in your bathrobe on the step (because it's the only place in the house you can steal internet), while those passing by throw you looks of sincere pity because they likely believe you to be the victim of some horrible fire, from which you acquired your third degree burns...

yes there is absolutely something to be said about exfoliation...

On that note, however, there is also something to be said about an industrial-duty concealer...(so that you can make yourself look like a real person again)

Happy scrubbing.  

Determining Reaction Rates

Upon the inspection of any experimental data describing the preliminary rate of a given chemical system...

If the [A] doubles and the reaction rate also doubles, then the rate of this chemical system in question, share a directly proportional relationship to the concentration of species "A". Thus the reaction rate of teh chemical system is of the first order with respect to species A.

Now, if the [A] doubles in an independant experiment, and in this case, the rate of the reaction for this chemical sysetm...let's say for argument's sake- increases by a factor of four...then the rate of reaction of this chemical system, and the reactant species "A", are correlated by a factor of 2. Thus the system is of second order with respect to species A.

...Lastly. If the concentration of species A changes by any factor durring the course of the reaction, and the rate of the chemical system stays static, this indicates that the rate of reaction of this chemical system is, in fact, independant of the [A]. This is known as a Zeroth-order reaction (with respect to chemical species "A") and is therefore of the power zero. Now, for the rate law: rate=k[A]^alpha[B]^beta...an exponent of zero will always result in one, thus rendering the rate equal to that of the rate constant "k".

thank you kindly for your time.

By the way...

If one ever finds themself unable to imediately access the internet in a time of crisis, Degrassi High (weekdays triple back-to-back episodes 8:30-10am, CTV) may prove to be an adequate and convenient self-diagnostic tool.

attempting to run in stilts is a bad idea...who ever thought running on stilts would be a good idea?
the giraffe will forever remain an evolutionary mistery to me.


still looking for the perfect shade of red lipstick? me too...and hope for the future's looking grim to be honest.