Certain Inevitabilities

Hello. Please indicate how this makes sense:

Migraine trigger for Natalie = weather changes, bright lights (mostly the sun), and strong smells (sometimes).

Natalie's super fantastic migraine treatment = strong smell of rosemary.

Migraine trigger for Natalie + Natalie's super fantastic migraine treatment = migraine for Natalie. And a bad one at that.

Oh dear.

I'm holding out hope that it was mostly the weather change that did it. Matt suggested that I only take the cover off halfway so the smell isn't that strong, which I may just do.

Anyway, certain inevitabilities I have encountered in summer semester:

1. Even if you are allowed to leave work 10 minutes early, traffic will be terrible and instead of having time to grab coffee or food like you intended to (and were excited about!!), you will just make it to class on time, like every other day.
2. While you are waiting for the Northbound train, no less than 3 Southbound trains will come and go. Vice versa for when you are waiting for the Southbound train.
3. There will ALWAYS be a pompous student in your class who has to point out the conclusion everyone else already came to in their heads. This happens in every class, but after 8 hours of work and 4 evenings of 3 hours of school, this happening will be particularly difficult to sit through.
4. I will see the Stanford Prison Experiment video, in my university career, more times than double the years I have been in university. (Next week I'm seeing it again). I feel like I was actually in the damn thing.

Yesterday I was on the train when these guys got on, swearing and cursing about who knows what. The guy next to them was reading his newspaper and he said "Watch your language. There are ladies on this train (one of them was me) and that one has a baby (that one was not me)." I was so impressed! The guys tried to save face by saying stuff like "well, I'd lip off to you if... blah blah" and the best part was that the man was just nodding and reading his newspaper. Another variety of a random act of kindness! The more I look for it, the more I see it! It's nice to know that in such a greedy, rude, and sometimes very unpleasant society that there is decency everywhere. :)

Also, the Australians are in town!! I talked to the little girl (age 6) on the phone tonight and she is just the sweetest thing. I can't wait til my course is over and I can go visit and hang out! I asked her what she wanted to do, and apparently we'll be blowing bubbles. lol.

G'night!