(I title my entries after I write them)
Have you seen the latest issue of GDT? Check out Persistence, on page 2. I'm about to talk about it, so read it if you care what I have to say.
Noticing Govind Ramabadran's name in the staff credits I can't help but wonder if it's his own fantasy, submitted under a false name. He does match the description of the guy in the tale (or at least as much of it as can be confirmed without taking off his pants). "M.Lipschutz" indeed. But that's just a random thought that came into my head. Totally beside the point. No offense ment, Govind, if you somehow stumble upon this.
What did I feel when I read this story? Was it fiction or non-fiction? Now that I notice that it was submitted under a male name, I'm leaning towards fiction. But still I wonder. Is that the sort of thing that happens at college? Reading it fills me with a sense of longing. Not so much for the sex, though I guess that would be nice. But the spontaneity, the sense that two people could meet up and connect, just like that. Though the last few sentences kind of diminish that. (Okay, it's definitely fiction. They passed over too many times when it would be normal to mention one's name to be explained by anything other than dramatic effect.) I'm still left with the idea that I'm missing something. That there are all these people bouncing around, coming together, reacting with each other, and I'm just sitting here inert. Like a noble gas. Woah. High-school chemistry flashback.
I wonder how far that analogy holds. Two atoms combine with each other so that, together, they can make a configuration that looks like an inert noble gas. The ones that are most reactive, the most desperate to combine, are the ones that are closest to the stable configuration without being there. Hm. I'll ponder this, and see if it fits. It's probably good to stop here before I start trying to work electronegativity into it somehow.
But anyway, I have to get out of my noble gas configuration. I'm in such a reactive environment, and I can't afford to keep wasting my chances.
Can anybody spare an electron?
As long as I'm posting something, I thought this deserved a link. Read it or don't, it probably doesn't affect you. (Now that I think of it, things that affect minorities don't affect most people, by definition of the word "minority". Huh. It's 3:30am, forgive my random babble.)