Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Tag: humor

  • “I’m 24”: The Best Rap Video You’ll Ever Watch…

    24 is a strange, strange birthday. Generally speaking, you’re out of college, yet you still feel young. You’re at the start of your career, yet everything around you is changing. Friends are getting married and settling down. Friends are going to grad school. Friends are moving away. You’re no longer on your parents insurance. Yet,…

  • Unexpected Breezes

    Starbucks and Chipotle are closed for Easter, but it’s a gorgeous day, so I’ve been working on their outdoor patio. The temperature is comfortable, if a little warm, so when a small breeze arose, I thought, “Oh, thank you, breeze.” Perhaps encouraged by my sentiment, the breeze continued, billowing and billowing. It caught some of…

  • Must…Get…Ball…

  • Working From Home

    I have been relatively quiet of late due to the looming deadline of the paper I’m writing for my lab. I’ve spent a number of afternoons working from home, where I find myself utilizing a comical amount of different tools simultaneously, from duel-wielding Windows and OS X systems to handwritten notes. For no particular reason,…

  • Looking Scruffy

    After delaying shaving and cutting my hair for the Hallowe’en costume, I let it go for a bit longer in solidarity with Mark, who has been doing No-Shave November. Of course, Rachel hated it with a passion, and so her passion for kissing me was significantly cooled. I finally got a haircut, which left a…

  • Game Show Ticket

    I keep thinking this is one of the Game Show tickets from @playglitch.

  • Today in Netflix

    Yesterday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that Netflix would be moving in still another new direction, in a reversal of decision made only a few weeks prior. Qwikster, Hastings’ stillborn attempt to save his precipitously declining customer base by forcing them to cancel two subscriptions instead of one, will be resorbed by the original Netflix…

  • Burrito Envy

    I have been craving a burrito for weeks. My friend Caitlyn goes to Chipotle for a burrito nearly every day for lunch (between 10 and 11 AM Eastern, or around when I’m leaving for the lab), leaving me with burrito foodlust and a packed turkey sandwich for my own noonday meal. This was heightened when…