Journal

Various Things

Here is a collection of facts. Some of them may be true.

I did well for a test. Not extremely well, but well enough.

Okapi sometimes eat charcoal made by lightning.

I sometimes find it quite hard to get rejected, although I may regret saying that soon. This has nothing to do with anything romance-related.

Jacques Derrida’s birthday is the 15th of July.

I am reading a Pynchon book. Slow Learner. It was a little hard to get into the book when in the introduction the author made it clear all the things he thought were poorly executed in the various stories. I’ve only just started, though, so I’ll probably end up loving it to death. Who knows.

Batman might be on offer tonight.

I have a test on Monday.

It has been raining these days.

I have plenty of things to do.

When the Heisenberg family had twins, Pauli congratulated them for their “pair creation”.

I have spent a fair bit of money recently. Well, not a lot, but still more than the usual. I suppose I can cheat myself into thinking that it suggests something about my frugal nature. It does, doesn’t it?

The Petri dish takes its name from its inventor, Julius Richard Petri, who was assistant to Robert Koch.

I have Ishiguro’s Nocturnes on pre-order. Did I already say this?

Spike Milligan’s epitaph reads, “I told you I was ill.”

My musical diet was primarily trip-hop and electronic music for a while and has recently shown a shift towards classic rock and punk.

Fossils of the Diplodocus were first discovered by Samuel Wendell Williston.

I’m supposed to do King Lear next for class.

The MRT trains in Singapore run on 700V d.c.

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