Closer to Free

With finals steadily approaching, I haven’t really had much time for blogging. Luckily, although I have another 10 days or so before I am completely done with school, the worst of it is over. Though I will still be busy, I will not be as stressed. Today I turned in my last paper of the semester. Wednesday, I have my final in Deductive Logic and Friday I have my final in Latin. These will require less preparation than my Greek and Classical Civilization finals taking place next week, so for the moment I feel relatively calm. It’s wonderful. To add to my delight, the weather has been near perfect lately (re: cool and occasionally rainy) and the tulips are springing up all over town. Think of me what you will, I love flowers. How can you not? And tulips have always been among my very favorites. They are simple, but graceful. Gotta love ‘em.

In less than two weeks, I hope my blogging frequency will increase again. I am stowing away a bevy of blogging ideas and look forward to unleashing them. Until then, I will again share a few of my favorite discoveries of late. Make of these what you will.

Delightful Discoveries o’ the Week:

• Philocrites, the Unitarian Universalist, posted an interesting bit of more-or-less useless information regarding how long the American flag should be lowered for the deaths of varying religious leaders. He bases this on the denomination/membership ratios of the given religions, using the pope's death as a standard. This probably appealed to me because I, too, like to figure out useless information. Recently, as I walked to the bus stop after school, I found it fascinating to realize that so long as a bus comes every one minute, every two minutes, every three minutes, every four minutes, every five minutes, every six minutes, every ten minutes, every fifteen minutes, every twenty minutes, every thirty minutes, or every sixty minutes, it will come on the same minute of every hour. In essence, this equates to nothing more than the factors of 60, but it sure did entertain me as I meandered across campus.
• Michèle introduced me to a fascinating literary device known as "Found Poetry." I had never heard of it before, but it certainly sounds intriguing. Check out what it is and, if you feel so inspired, use my post to create your very own found poem. Leave it as a comment and, if I like yours the best, you will win a prize ... like a comment from me saying, "I like yours the best!"
• Via comments left on JL Pagano's blog, I discovered that Cookie Monster has his own blog. Given the recent hubbub surrounding Cookie Monster's diet, I found this blog to be quite amusing, especially the bit about the new FDA food pyramids. Give it a look. (And if you haven't heard about Cookie Monster's diet troubles, see this post at JL Pagano's site for the quick skinny).

Happy perusing!