What's on my mind: (7/18/96)

For those who care and those who don't
Why is it that old people think picking your nose in public is acceptable? Like you'll be talking to them, and they're talking to you, and while they're talking, they're nonchalantly picking their nose. Is is that they think you don't notice? Or that it's socially acceptable? That really confuses me. Like what do you say to someone while they're doing that? Do you go, "Eww, that's gross!"? or maybe "Do you really think I can't see you doing that?" Or do we cheer? "Aww yeah, that was a huge one!" Whatever; it's an uncomfortable situation, even for me.

You know, a Bio lab is a kind of cool place. Here you have pretty smart people from all over the world. The crazy thing is, most of them don't speak English as their primary language. Like there are people from Spain, the Middle East, and China all in my lab. Most of the time I can't understand them at all. But somehow, at lab meetings, they seem to communicate and understand each other through each other's different accents. It's actually kind of cool.

Now that I think about it, I guess it's kind of inspiring too. That even with language getting in the way, they can still communicate what they mean. I guess I hope to one day get through the clumsy words me and my friends use with each other and get to know what they truly feel. That's pretty hard to do, even when you do speak the same language.

Why is it that cockroaches choose to move to the center of the room before they turn over and die? Why can't they like go to the trash or something?

When Optimus Prime transformed into the truck, where did his trailer come from? And where did it go when he transformed back? And how come the Decepticons could fly but the Autobots couldn't? And what was the name of the guy in the wheelchair? And how come the toy was JetFire but on the cartoon he was SkyFire?

Who the heck came up with the idea for neckties? Isn't that kind of random?

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