"Of all the priceless objects we leave behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothin you could auction. The scars left from happiness." -(Chuck Palahniuk, "Diary")
I just think that quote is really true. Even when it hurts us more, we cling to the useless residues of happiness, and ultimately happiness leads far more insidious scars than sadness ever did.
On Sri Lanka- I'm very confused about what is right and what is wrong. On one hand, it sounds like the government is keeping out international aid and allowing citizens in north Sri Lanka to get murdered or displaced from getting caught in the conflict. Also, the skew towards Tamil people makes it seem like bordering on genocide. On the other hand I have a friend that is Singhalese and to her the confrontation is a lot less black and white. So I don't really know what to think.
Anyway, somethin funny:
So brief background- "grandmother cells" are supposedly neurons in I think V1 (a higher order visual cognition area) that respond only to your grandmother or some other really specific "receptor field." Today in my systems nueroscience lab recitation, our teacher was trying to refresh people's memory of grandmother cells. Someone had referred to them as "Jennifer Aniston cells" (equally accurate name), so he asked, "Okay, say we have these Jennifer Anniston cells in our cortex. What do you think is the only thing they respond to?"
And a girl behind me, one of my friend's old roommates, said, dead seriously, "Brad Pitt."
I think she was embarrassed when she learned her mistake, but it really was hilarious. It definitely brightened my otherwise extremely long (and no over yet!) day.
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