POP QUIZ

One of these things is not getting any attention, due primarily to the time demands of the other three:

1. My House
2. My Job
3. My Graduate Classes
4. My Blog

Please stand-by, we are experiencing spatiotemporal difficulties…

It’s official. Butterfly and I are home owners.

No matter how many times I have this experience, I keep doing it over again.
Occasionally, when I get a job or task that I don’t want to do, I make up this story in my mind about how hard it will be or how loathsome the task is, so I just put it off. But 90 percent of the time, after I finally force myself to do it, I come to find out that it was really no big deal at all and not worth all the thought and energy I put into avoiding it.

C’est la vie.

Over the weekend [Easter weekend] we had 30 degree weather and brief snow flurries here in Texas. Many of my co-workers commented that perhaps we are experiencing the end-of-the-world, or at the very least the first cataclysmic grumblings of the apocalypse. I thought perhaps they were all being a bit too melodramatic. That is until yesterday….

Yesterday, as I quickly ducked into a store over my lunch hour, I heard the elevator music, instrumental, easy-listening version of the Sneaker Pimps’ “Post Modern Sleaze.”

Indeed, The End Is Nigh!

There is a saying, “Animals sweat, men perspire and women glow”. Well people, let me tell you…I sweat. And I sweat a lot!! Depending on the circumstances, rivulets of water run…not just trickle, but run down my face and neck. I’ve actually witnessed my own fore arms bead up and dew on a summer’s night (granted I was packing UPS trucks in a scorching hot Texas warehouse, but still it’s not like all the other fore arms in the joint were doing it). So no, I do NOT glow, simply put, I sweat.

This is why my interest was piqued today as I read an article about Nina Jablonsky, an anthropologist studying the significance of human skin. She stated (emphasis mine):

It happened this way. There was a tremendous takeoff in human evolution about two million years ago when primates who could no longer be called apes appeared in the savannahs of East Africa. These early humans ran long distances in open areas. In order to survive in the equatorial sun, they needed to cool their brains. Early humans evolved an increased number of sweat glands for that purpose, which in turn permitted their brain size to expand. As soon as we developed larger brains, our planning capacity increased, and this allowed people to disperse out of Africa. There’s fossil evidence of humans appearing in Central Asia around this time.

Maybe I am a biological catalyst for the evolution of greater human intelligence.