Assorted Thoughts 25: Howling Like A Monkey With Its Tail Caught In A Vise Edition

• One of the stores in the University Center here on campus sells school-branded bottle opener keychains.  Know your clientele, I guess.
• Listening to "American Idiot" is a great way to prep for some grading.
• I like the lab I'm working in.  I like it especially because of the Neverending Coffeepot.  Caffeine must flow.
• I also keep the fridge stocked with Mountain Dew.  You know, just in case.
• Reminder to self: when going to Target, do try not to wear red shirts and tan shorts or pants.  It's quite possible for strange ladies to mistake you for a Target employee despite the large "RED SOX" written across your chest.
• Ron Paul: the Creature from the Atlas Shrugged Lagoon.
• Brigham Young University's mascot is the cougar, which has unpleasant secondary meanings. Mormons are also legendarily fecund. Therefore, I think I'm going to start calling BYU's teams the MILFs.
• I think I don't have existential doubt so much as existential sulk.
• This is a paragraph from a paper on octopuses I read recently:
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"Unusual behavior by the female was noted after one copulation. Five minutes after the termination of mating the female inhaled, raised her mantle straight up for five to eight seconds, then exhaled forcibly while lowering the mantle to its normal position. Two minutes later, while sitting in the head-high position, she furiously curled her her wriggling arms back and forth over the mantle for 30 secs and then continued this behavior every four minutes. In the interim she would place from one to three arms into her mantle cavity for approximately 20 secs then suddenly withdraw them with a contraction of the mantle. This behavior continued for seven hours and the ventilation rate remained high, from 38 to 42/min. Thereafter, her behavior was completely normal. This behavior remains enigmatic."
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I think that's a scientific description of an octopus rape victim.