The Life Experience ~ Fall '14

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What I've Learned Since The Fall Equinox

• Finnish-speakers play havoc with their own crazy case system, because there are so many different dialects.


• Enameled copper can offer some bright colors to your chainmaille, but boy is it soft!


• My original query letter was probably better than the revamped one.


• Hatching birds' wings look ridiculously flippery and adorable.


• Flu shots do not make you invincible.


• There actually is a way to fix the digestive issues I've had since getting rid of the chestburster. Figures I'd take 14 months to actually think to ask my doctor about it.


• I apparently don't remember the periodic table at all. Everything I thought I knew turned out to be wrong.


• Body cameras on cops apparently wouldn't help, as grand juries will see videos of cops committing homicide and still not indict.


• Remember to oil your bottle capper or it will lock up annoyingly.


• There really were some Chuck E. Cheese murders back in the day, which might be what Five Nights At Freddy's is based on.


• Upon going to schools for Space Place Outreach, I realized that all of those damn posters all over the wall are a huge problem for me because I have to read them. The other person has to keep snapping me out of a daze. God, I must have been so overstimulated as a student.


• Gifted education is a lot more difficult than I expected.


• I am okay at making lecture plans, but activity plans are beyond me.


• Surface tension keeps your tears stuck to your face out in space.


• After you've poured boiling water on your fingers, you might have to drain your blisters just to keep them from exploding when you flex your fingers.


• Checking out sunspots with solar filters is pretty dang cool.


• Suddenly becoming a de facto homeowner is a daunting prospect.


• There is methane on Mars! HMMM.