I was driving into school this morning when I realized that the leaves here really haven't changed color. And then my parents called to tell me I should go get a turkey for Thanksgiving and I think I was shocked. Both in the fact that I've never been in charge of providing food for Thanksgiving, and also that normally when I think Thanksgiving, I think leaves changing color and falling off the trees, and occasionally snow! So the realization that people are coming to visit next week and the reason they are coming to visit is because of Thanksgiving is successfully here.
In the randomness department: I calculated out graduation today, sure it's my first semester here - but I had to put "expected graduation" on my UT stuff. So, drum roll please - 2010 is the expected graduation. That said, I'm registered for classes for next semester: good times with neuroanatomy. I'll have to locate my copy of the human brain coloring book. You laugh - but that was the best $10 I spent in the master's program. I was a subject in a study today, apparently my memory for faces is great... I'm just not always able to map the faces back onto names. I also demonstrated my immense knowledge of IT skills by unjamming the copier. It was touch and go there for a while - but at the end of the day the copier knows who is boss. A particular scene from office space with a baseball bat comes to mind... Also, this weekend will be my first long distance run (more than 5 miles) since the injury in high school - so wish me luck.
Does anyone else wonder where the phrase - "when pigs fly" came from? Also, for those of you who haven't heard Eddie Izzard do his Venn Diagram bit, I have to say that I can't actually sit in a class that is using Venn diagrams without laughing.
Story: things I've seen running
I was running the other night and I saw something I hadn't seen before. Sure, every time I go running I see the lots of things: other people running, people running with their dogs, people running with babies in strollers, people walking, people walking and then running only when attractive people are coming the other way, and people who run with flailing arms that might put someone's eye out! But this particular run I saw something I hadn't seen before. I saw a guy running with a two-seat stroller... but there were no kids in the stroller! I almost turned around to ask him if he had lost one or two kids along the way - perhaps he hit a bump or something and little Timmy just flew out.
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I can't help with the origin of the phrase, but my Dad used to have a pig hanging from the ceiling in his office. Battery operated, so that he could turn it on whenever someone tried to get out of doing work by saying, "Yeah, that'll happen when pigs fly." It was quite entertaining.
It was similar to this: http://www.funrockn.com/novelty/pages/flying_pig.html
Oh my word. You really made me laugh today. "little Timmy falling out" *chuckle*
You've made a sick person feel much better. :) thanks.
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