Miscellaneous

[qatarperegrine]

A bunch of things that don't warrant their own posts:

1. I have a new part-time coworker who, on top of being really nice person, has 25 years' experience in ESL at the college level. Very nifty.


2. New exercise goal: run 5K (no walking) by Christmas. Last night I did 4K, alternating every quarter-kilometer between a slow jog (8K/hr) and walk (6K/hr).


3. After ten days, my fire coral sting has finally stopped burning* and itching. Hallelujah! My skin is still discolored and weirdly shrunken, though. Fire coral is definitely nastier than jellyfish -- or at least the jellyfish I ran into.


3a. When a jellyfish is touched, it releases its stinging nematocysts in a matter of microseconds -- it's one of the fastest biological processes on the planet. BUT, while some jellyfish sting (and eat) other types of jellyfish, they don't sting members of their own species. Isn't that amazing? I wonder how they know.


4. After requesting application materials and course catalogs from my top three religion grad schools, I've formulated a new Plan A: get an MTS with a specialization in World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, and then enter the (non-Divinity-School) Ph.D. program, specializing in Religion and Anthropology under Option III. That's my dream this week, anyway!

* burning in the temperature-related sense. For the first week, the sting was radiating so much heat you could actually locate it just by running your hand over my pants. Well, assuming I like you enough to let you run your hand over my pants, anyway.
 

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