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Question #6 on Today’s IH 0052 Midterm-
“Choose one:  Explain why you like poetry, or explain why you hate poetry”
My response: “Because this counts as great art:
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the iceboxand which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
-This is just to say
William Carlos Williams”

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Nurse: The doctor’s going to be a moment, would you like to go to the cafeteria?
Me: *Shakes gut while wearing no pants* I should be fine.
Ah, physicals

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I love physicals, especially sensory testing ones as they make me feel like I’m about to go into space or participate in a physical challenge from Double Dare.
Eye Examiner: Please read the bottom line of the chart.
Me: Made in China 2006Eye Examiner: Read the number in the circles.
Me: 8-29-12-5
Eye Examiner: *Silence*
(The 5 is part of [...]

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Markov Chains are wondrous little things that allow you to make arbitrary calculations at a future time and there’s a bunch of matrices involved.  Today we had a quiz on them and after the first few questions we hit one where for once there were actually numbers.  Not letters, honest to God numbers.  In a [...]

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I’m working on a method for something at work and submitted it for review to make sure it was okay.  It was approved, sent to the UK for review, and sent back with all the o’s changed to ou’s where British dictates (colour, armour, etc.)  The document was then reviewed again, the spellings were changed [...]

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My brother went to get a sparkplug and yelled for Max to go with him.  No response from dog.  20 minutes of yelling later, no response, brother gets frantic running about property looking for lost dog.  Smarter younger brother spends 2 minutes searching and discovers Max still in brother’s car from earlier unsuccessful attempt mounted [...]

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Me: That’s kinda sad.
Anthony: Funeral services tend to be like that.
Me: No, I thought there’d be cake.
-At L. Rosenberger’s Funeral Service

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Lynne’s funeral service was wondrous except for the guy sitting in front of me that made up parts during the hymns.  I’m pretty sure he was a tenor but what he was singing rarely coincided with the notes on the page like he’d chosen Lynne’s funeral to show off his improv skill, but he sounded [...]

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I filled a glass with water today in the cafeteria and when I went to pay for as if it were soda.  I said it was water, the teller laughed at me and shoed me away.

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Fridays with bad weather tend to be rather slow, and while talking with non-native speaker about Temple U, he mentioned how impressed he was with their ICU and how well they dealt with multiple traumas and other injuries.  I think his mind got a head of his English when he said “those doctors are pros [...]

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