My wonderful friend Lydia is trying to win this online burlesque competition  (She needs to stay in the top 6). If you already haven't, please go vote for her!   She is such an amazing performer, and she's really close to making it to Vegas.  

She's Talloolah Love.
http://www.vivalasvegas.net/intranet/vote_main.php

Today was a good day for taking pictures of the sky. 

As I have gotten older, I've put more and more energy into trying to understand other people.  I like to evaluate people's actions and figure out why they are doing the things they do.  But, there is danger in this.  It is very easy to get upset if you apply your own motives to other people.  We each have our own reasons for our actions.  You simply can not apply the same set of reasoning to everything another person does.

I had tried to write my own entry about how profoundly upset I was over Prop 8, but Keith Olbermann sums it up so much better.

theoofthewired  took this beautiful picture of me this weekend.  I really, really, really like it.  It reminds me a bit of Christina's World, although much less sad (as georgemcfly brought up).

“Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven.... Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.” - A Clockwork Orange

Our separation was a trying ordeal. Although initially intended as a 1 month "break" from our relationship, our time apart had extended into 3-4 months. I can't say that I was not tempted, but I remained true.  Now, we are together again.

Oh joy, oh bliss, oh wonder! My clarinet is home!  I sent her off to get fixed in July, and she was finally finished this last week.  I celebrated by playing part of the Copeland clarinet concerto and Rhapsody for Clarinet by William Osborne and some Klezmer music.   It is so good to have her home. 

Three strange things just happened to me in the course of 15 minutes. I am taking this as divine sign that I must report these miracles to the general public. Because I am lazy, I am assuming general public == livejournal friend's list. If physicists can assume a cow is spherical, this is perfectly acceptable.

1. Panties.
People lose clothing items all the time. But I am not sure how one manages to lose their underwear outside of the neuroscience center at UNC.

Black and lacy.


...outside the neuroscience center.

2. Bees.
As I walked away from the underwear, I ran into a cloud of bees. For some reason, 100s of bees have gathered outside the entrance to MBRB.

3.Dog Speakers.
Once I waded through the bees and had made it into Taylor Hall, I was getting on the elevator to go to the lab when I noticed a poster for some talks coming up.


Who knew that a dog knew so much about autism and schizophrenia?