Lanky:

Crouch from the England soccer team. Tall, skinny, seems perhaps accident prone and clumsy. Seems to almost come across huge opportunities by luck.

Skinny:

The goal of all women.

Scrawny:

There’s a difference between scrawny and skinny. Skinny is hard work, exercise and discipline. Scrawny is weakness, perhaps being gifted by certain genes or conversely having an eating disorder. It definitely has negative connotations. A woman can be skinny and still reasonably physically powerful. Scrawny on the other hand is needing help opening a jar. Strongly linked to Posh Spice.

Sinewed:

Powerful individual with long lean, powerful muscles. It’s not Arnold, it’s more Halle Berry in her flop movie Catwoman.

Burly:

Thick set individuals. Usually associated with men and flannel and body hair and body odour. Also associated with tree-cutters.

Furry:

Men with the shag hair cut who have not waxed the rest of their body. Not to say that men waxing their bodies is a norm or even expected. However, if a men just has the shag hair cut but is waxed and shiny elsewhere then he no longer can be categorized as furry. I’m really not sure how the individual could be categorized in such case.

Fuzzy:

Men who have body and head hair that is very short. Women can be considered fuzzy if they haven’t attended to their body hairs for a short while. If however a woman has not attended to her body hairs in a long while then she’s demoted to furry.

Elegantly Frosted:

Gray hair should not be feared. Some men and women look awesome with grey hair. They have a certain degree of dignity and achievement. It’s like they’ve weathered the storms, worked very hard in life and are now just around to party.

Orange Mess:

Self-tan addicts. Not to be mistaken with the Orange Revolution of Ukraine.

Plub:

A fatty, bubbly extension of oneself. It’s an abnormality in an otherwise well-proportioned body. If you have it, cover it. It’s only respectful. Some women expose it to remind and punish themselves into eating better and working out harder. Really, that’s just unnecessary trauma for everyone. Take it easy. Then there are the rebellious plub exposers who show it and could go as far as puncturing it to prove they’re above it. Fine, show it, wear it proud. Perhaps you are more comfortable in your skin than others or perhaps you’re in denial.

Bloated:

Pre-menstrual or menstrual state of some women. Also associated with cattiness. Water retention to the nth power. Men could also feel bloated by means of excess gas but I don’t think they can actually look bloated.

Stout:

All right, so technically speaking it’s very similar to burly but in my head it’s burly but short.

Hot Momma:

The goal of all middle-aged women. In my mind it’s strongly associated with Mediterranean or well tanned women. They may not be skinny. Curves suit them well. They are the products of great discipline and excellent cosmetics.

Natural Beauty:

In my mind it’s associated with moms of all ages. Every mother can look really beautiful for an instant even if she is wearing disheveled clothing and is cleaning spit-up. The draw-back is that it only lasts for a few moments but those moments are priceless.

Mushy:

A warm wonderful man with soft caring features. Not built but not obese. Gives great hugs.

In an earlier post I spoke of the Conservation of Energy. It made me wonder about changes in people’s moods. Mood I guess is determined by biochemical activity in the brain. However, how do you preserve a good mood or shun bad energy? You could stick headphones in your ears all day but sooner or later you would want to interact with someone. I think each interaction between a person or a device or an event brings the opportunity for mood changes. Think quantum mechanics but for your moods. It’s all about probabilities. People and things can bring you up or down. There’s a distribution of probabilities for each event. Any day’s events are not deterministic no matter how much we wish it. Certain people trigger us, their mood influencing powers cause rushes or doomsday feelings faster and stronger than others… consider them as your mood delta functions. So how does one sustain one’s mood? I think it goes back to the physics of the brain. Proper sleep, diet and exercise increases the probabilities of a good day. However it’s all just probabilities. Inactive, lazy people in fairy tale environments can have it great. Strong active, well balanced people can live through hell. So in the end folks, just like so many things in this life, all one can do is take the necessary precautions and hope for the best.

Amazing clothes and makeup and filming locations. Predictable story line. Meryl Streep is one of my fave faves. She did well. It’s based on a book written by a former assistant of Anna Wintour who’s the editor of Vogue. After the movie came out friends of Anna came to her defense but I still wonder. It really doesn’t matter however.

3/5

I’m getting really frustrated with the whole Middle East situation. UN speaks of humanitarian crisis, violation of human rights, devastation and the Western countries speak of Israel’s right to defend itself. Somewhere, somehow the definition of offense and defense got lost.

I’ve been working out fairly consistently over the last month or two and I’ve managed to keep a steady weight but now to my great discomfort I’m not fitting into my pants again. Did they shrink or did my butt grow? A friend told me that you have to keep upping your workout or else its effects wear off. Isn’t that in violation of the Conservation of Energy?

Went to a driving range for the first time last night. It was fun. I hit some nice shots. Ended up with a blister though. It’s so satisfying to see your golf ball sail up.
So sick of gelatti. The love affair is over. Give me cream!!!

Today someone in the lab brought in a Chinese onion salad. Lots of onions, sesame seed oil, vinegar, etc. We all concluded she used the wrong onion because the salad burned your throat way too much. It brought me back to an incident in high school when I had brought in a salad of my own making with lots of onions and somehow the container holding it had cracked open. The hallway stank of natural gas like fumes. I was quite startled by the staying power of the stench. I was deeply embarrassed and yet thankful that I had not the opportunity to consume the salad. My friends were so good they played completely dumb even though the whole school was wondering what had happened. Anyways, beware of the onion.