Also I can't stop washing my hands

I think I have mentioned that, for one of my classes, it is necessary to produce a skeleton. The method for this is to acquire the body of a small animal, in my case a duck, and boil it until you're left with bones.

This is the most traumatizing thing I have ever done in my life. (Hyperbole yay.) I think I will finally be done with it tonight, but there have been weeks of constant boiling, on and off. There is the smell of grease that permeates everything. I was going to write out some of the more specific details, but it is so disgusting that there really is no purpose to forcing you to share the knowledge. Every second I spend doing this I want to weep with frustration, or perhaps vomit. I loathe it.

As soon as this is over, I will never, ever have to do anything like this again, which is a good thing because otherwise I would drop out of school and beg on the streets before willingly taking on such a project.

National Poetry Month

No Second Troy W. B. Yeats

Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
Had they but courage equal to desire?
What could have made her peaceful with a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
That is not natural in an age like this,
Being high and solitary and most stern?
Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?

Linkblogging

My Leper Pony. Who had My Little Ponies when you were little? I had an entire herd, and was constantly using them to tell epic stories about war and kidnapping and battles and dramatic rescues, which tended to involve way more violence and far less hair-combing than I think the makers intended. I would have loved a Leper Pony.

Five Boroughs Ice Cream. Ha, this is awesome! I wish my neighborhood had a flavor. Actually, these sound really tasty, but I think I'm too lazy to go out to Queens just to buy ice cream.

Texas Senator proposes offering $500 to women who give up their children for adoption. Wow. Selling children. That's totally a good way to make the pro-life supporters look not insane.

You know that Hemmingway quote which starts, "the world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places"? I love that quote. I've used it for a title. What I would not want, however, is it on a t-shirt. The internet really does have everything; too bad so much of it is stuff you can't imagine being useful.

Some interesting videos:
Kermit the Frog covers Nine Inch Nail's 'Hurt'. I... I... there are no words to describe this. I recommend you watch only if you enjoy seeing your childhood icons destroyed; it's nearly as bad as the Carebears BDSM story, really.

Tech Support in the Middle Ages. Ha! Very funny, a Monty Python-style sketch.

I was going to go dancing this weekend, but I'd forgotten that I'd accidentally given myself an enormous blister and that it hurts to walk now. Someday, I understand, I may actually grow up enough to refrain from constantly injuring myself, but at the moment at least it makes for amusing stories.