Let me start out by saying that if I ever married a man whose last name was "Luthor," I'd totally start going by "Lexi" again. Why do I bring this up? Because I was Googling supervillians and happened upon the biography of Alexander Joseph Luthor. Why was I Googling supervillians? Because I wanted to prove the point that if superhero movies were at all realistic, the supervillians would win way more often than they actually do. Why? Because they have a plan. They have formulae, equations, and enormous dry-erase boards with their step-by-step strategies to take over Metropolis, Gotham, or, heck, the whole world. Superheroes, on the other hand, are just like, "Oh darn, world's in danger again, better go save it..." and then they fly off or run really fast counterclockwise around the world without a second thought. What message is this teaching our children? "Hey kids, don't think things through, just fly off the handle, or better yet, just fly." My kids are going to have dry-erase boards.
This week marked the beginning of November, and with the beginning of November brought the beginning of a series of quasi-top-secret projects, assignments, experiments, and schemes. I have never wanted a giant dry-erase board more in my life, because when it comes to formulae of the effects of heat subtraction and tryptophan on the human psyche, sketch paper isn't cutting it. Normally, I don't like these types of social experiments, but somehow, the scheming supervillianess approach makes it quite fun. I realize this doesn't bode well for the people of Boston when my timid, mild-mannered scientist self somehow falls into a vat of radioactive chemical waste. So watch it.
In other news, there is no slowing down until Christmas, but I guess that's a consequence of being both wicked and weary! Today was my "day off," in which I didn't actually go to school, but included a trip to the bank and the grocery store, completion of all my laundry, starting a case report and summary for my Applied Forensic Anthropology class, freaking out about the future and the fact that I somehow have to get myself into a PhD program next year, a Boston College hockey game (haven't actually gone to that yet, but I'll report back), and preparations for one Lindsay Sorensen's twenty-fifth birthday party (updates on that to come as well). One awesome thing about this week was a trip to the Boston Temple to do work for both of my Grandmothers. The peace and calm that comes from being in the temple is a welcome change from the business of the world, and it was very special to do work for people whom I actually know.
I'll try to keep updates for the world on how my strategizing is going without alerting the world to my top-secret plans for world domination (what? I didn't say world domination...you're hearing things). And I'll try to also stay away from giant vats of radioactive chemical waste, but if that does happen somehow, I'm going to need a dry-erase board.
Like.
ReplyDelete