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| things i learned today/yesterday: musings of a sleep deprived mindi've been having rather peculiar dreams as of late. i use the word peculiar because these dreams aren't quite bizarre but they're not quite normal. all my dreams have been centering around pretty normal interactions between myself and a slew of people, both the kind i know in real life and the kind that i'm pretty sure my mind fabricated (hopefully in a freak coincidence these people actually exist somewhere in the real world and i'll have the fortune of meeting one of them some day). pretty standard so far, the peculiar part is that all these vignettes take place in fairly bizarre settings. for example the dream i had before waking today was of myself and some people who i cant quite remember in what i think was a strange post-apocalyptic world where i was back on the east coast. i have no reason what the apocalyptic event was or if it really was post-apocalyptic, but i have the distinct feeling that in my dream i had the vivid knowledge of some massive earth shattering event having occured. i couldnt tell you what happened between me and the people in my dream either as i was awoken mid conversation with a created guy who i think came from LA.
another dream that definitely was a bit strange, but in my mind much cooler was one i had this weekend. i can't remember the context of the events at all, but i was in the middle of a mexican showdown with what i think weren't exactly people, possibly monsters/aliens of some sort. either way it was me and possibly some allies against a comparatively large group of enemies. all of us were armed and all of us had our guns drawn. things were not looking good for myself and my possibly absent allies. it was in the middle of this showdown that i received a call from jon du (this was in real life not my dream). i half woke up and took his call, we arranged to hang out a little later in the day and concluded our conversation. rather than rousing myself to get ready to go out w/ jon i promptly fell back asleep. in a bizarre turn of brain chemistry i somehow managed to fall right back into my aforementioned dream. in more strange turns my call in real life had made my brain place the dream on hold, but not in a time froze and i left fashion. rather all the entities in my dream kind of stood around waiting for me to get back. i remember seeing some of them standing around in the typical, "where is this guy and when is he going to get here" pose. upon re-entering my dream and before everyone else realized i was back i took advantage of the situation and proceeded to open fire and take everyone out. i have no idea what happened next, but all i know is somehow jon's real phone call helped me win an entirely imaginary battle.
now in an entirely unrelated string of thoughts, i'm going to share some things i learned last night/this morning while studying for a final i have in <7 hours:
- my favorite cellular organelle is the endoplasmic reticulum
- my favorite form of intra/inter cell transport is vesicular transport
- my favorite cytoskeletal filamint is the intermediate filament
- my favorite part of the cell life cycle is apoptosis
now its time for me to get some breakfast (maybe) and then go to class.
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| so it's been a while since i've posted on this sucker. usually at this time i'd be finishing up with finals or preparing for my next one, as my finals are a little over a month away i though i'd share some of my thoughts with whatever readers i have left (who are all probably busy with finals).
these past ~four months in taiwan have been pretty eye opening for me. i've had some of the best experiences of my life with some people i've known for a very short portion of it. i've also felt so at home living in a place for the shortest time i've lived anywhere. i don't know if its the county itself or just the urban lifestye, i suspect a little bit of both, but the sheer convenience and in some ways simplicity of life here in taipei is so very welcoming. from the literal four 7-11s between one of my apartments and the four minutes away MRT station, to the abundance of 小吃店s everywhere.
there's also the people. at the same time the people of taiwan, especially the young people and at times a single young person, can be both frustratingly annoying and disgustingly surprising at the same time. their absolute love of almost all things foreign (aka american in many cases) and their rampant materialism is maddening, but the same person can turn out to be just as kind and compassionate as the best of us. this is never as apparant elsewhere as it is on the MRT. i can see the most seemingly uncaring and materialistic young man or woma, decked out in ridiculously overpriced and often glaringly ugly clothing give up her/his seat to an elderly person when rush hour is at its worse.
then there are the people i actually know. i've been extremely fortunate to have a friend in taipei here before me. it's pretty fair to say that the entirety of my group of friends was met through jon or someone i met through jon. it was also through jon that i've found all the bands i listen to here in taiwan, this being an obvious if you knew that the aforementioned group of friends are, for the most part, the people in said bands. having seen less than a handful of shows in the states its a bit funny that i'm typically seeing one or two shows a week now.
all in all it's pretty fair to say that i've fallen in love with the country of taiwan and its people. i could easily see myself moving here in the future and a large part of me wants that future to be as soon as i graduate. i'm even considering trying to go to graduate school here rather than in the states. either way God only knows what the future holds for me and i pray that it includes taiwan.
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| so i just finished reading hp7 and i must say it was pretty dece. plenty of action and death, but at heart its still a series made for children.
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