2001-08-24 - 3:05 p.m.
Various rambling scientific mutterings

I discovered something odd just now. I was bored, and was tracing something on one of my palms with my other index finger, thinking abstractly about a new database problem I was given thirty minutes ago that needed to be solved by last week. (I really hate this ... I work best under a deadline, but extreme last minute stuff is just a little bit stressful).

Anyway. It tickled, so I brushed my hands off on my jeans and started tracing on the air above my palm instead. To my surprise, it still tickled a little! I'd heard about biolectric fields and all that stuff, but in a hazy way, you know, something mildly interesting that comes up in sci-fi novels or medical dramas every once in a while. This is the first time I ever really noticed it.

*laughing* It makes me wonder about all the "aura" interpretations the new-agers spend hours dissecting and basing decisions on. It all boils down to complex biological (scientific) issues in the end.

... Goodness ... Three entries today. Guess who's trying to distract herself into staying awake? I should work on sleeping more next week ...

I was checking out the OSU webpage a bit ago, going through the graduate degree programs, and discovered that I could turn my undergraduate CIS degree into just about anything. Even the geology department has computer-related pieces in their masters program. Heh. Perhaps I can make myself AND all the adults around me happy, and get one of the various combination degrees. "History of Science" also looks like a good one. *humming to self*

D'oh! *smacking forehead* Silly tired Shell got off course again ... Must now reverse sidetrack and get back to massive confusing query/report structuring problem ...

(Heh ... I wonder if D'oh! was invented as a reverse contraction of Oh, Damn! ...)