Under the Skin

We talked about how I did on my 2015 New Year's Resolutions.  Now, is the time to to make the new New Year's Resolutions.  Some of them will be exactly the same as last year's because they weren't achieved.  Some of them will be expansions upon achieved resolutions.  Some of them will be entirely different resolutions.  But, here we are. Health Goals Eat at least one meal every day: Because I failed. Carry around a water bottle: Because I failed. Remain at a weight that I am happy with:  I shocked some people recently by telling them that I am not trying to lose weight.  I'm perfectly happy with what I weigh right now (and BMI agrees that I can be).  I'm not saying that I will be disappointed if I get a little thinner, or a little curvier.  But it seems like everyone expects me to have a New Year's Resolution about body weight.  So I want to stay happy with my weight.  I don't want to become 150 pounds or anything--re...

I haven't been able to my New Year's posts yet...as I have been in the throes of sinus infection and the installation of the accompanying snot into any body cavity it can find.  Lungs, throat, ears, eyes, you name it, it has not been fun.  But, I am taking a moment to do the first of three New Year's posts.  They will be, in order, Resolution Reflections from the 2015 resolutions, my 2016 resolutions, and then, the 2015 book list. First, the 2015 New Year's Resolution Reflections. I am a New Year's Resolutioner.  I believe in goals, I believe in changes, I believe in Resolutions.  And I think that sometimes people think that this means I hate myself.  It doesn't.  I am simply believing in the Hannah that can be, and I love the Hannah of the future, more than the Hannah of the present.  Perhaps that seems like a depressing prospect, but I actually quite like my life like that. So, how did we do on these resolutions? Health Goals Eat a...

I am back in Salt Lake from New York.  These are my thoughts from the airline travel experience in a list: (Warning: My dislike for people who complain about babies on planes will be featured. If you are one of those people, I'm not sorry. Babies have a right to fly too. I've seen a fad around the internet saying that the parents of babies on planes should give out gift bags to other passengers. Heck no. Other passengers should give them gift bags. I promise you, their day is going much more stressfully than yours, and no I don't know what's going on in your life, but I don't care, because the statement still stands).  On to the list: 1) The babies: The guy next to me keeps on making snide comments about how unlucky we are to have a toddler in front, a baby behind and a toddler across the aisle. Then he starts whining to the parents behind us to shut their child up. If you hear enough of it, you start to speak baby cry. That baby was c...

“We are at a turning point of revolution species. Evolution has blindly felt its way forward , now, we, the product of evolution are taking the wheel. We soon will have the ability to design and create the new human, evolution still, but guided evolution...of course, only on computer simulation.”  Lots of book reviewing coming up, and actually a lot of very flattering book reviewing coming up. So, I mentioned in my review of The Martian that I had an example of the other acceptable SciFi treatment--claiming character ignorance of the technical details--coming up.  This is that SciFi offering.  I didn't say that made it an amazing book, just acceptable scifi. Evening (Eve) Spiker has been tasked with what she believes is just a game--come up with the perfect male.  But could it be more devious than that?  With her mother being a genetics company tycoon, Eve starts to worry that the Adam Project is not the simple little educational outreach project ...

“But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it’s true.”  I have a rule.  I cannot go to see a movie that is based on a book until I have read its respective book.  I hadn't read this book yet last month, but was asked on a date to go see the movie.  So, my hand was forced.  I was asked on this date on a Tuesday night for that coming Friday night.  The next morning, I went to a Barnes and Noble and picked up a copy of the book.  I planned it out to read it in three days (a do-able feat, especially on a week off), but got so caught up in it that I actually read it in two!  So here we are, my book review of The Martian.  Movie review to follow. Here's something that you need to know about me.  I tend to strongly dislike SciFi.  Why--you may rightly ask--would a book-loving, professional scientist ever dislike SciFi? Because I'm a bo...

"Until you let me be an "I," the way you are, you can never come inside my silence." "I heard. I heard every word, g****** it. I translated for myself.   It went from your hands into my brain and out my mouth…You want to be on your own. You don't want to be pitied.   Then you learn to read my lips and use your mouth for something besides showing me you're better than hearing girls in bed. Read my lips. What am I saying? You want to talk to me, then you learn my language. Speak!" Hello there.  I am back with another book review.  I guess that this one is technically a play review, but I read it like a book (with the exception that I tend to read play scripts aloud when I read them like books). As such, I am going to treat it like a book.  I first heard about this play when I was in high school from my ASL teacher, but I never got around to seeing the movie, reading the play, or anything like that.  Then, when I w...