I feel as though I’m moving in slow-motion tonight.

The bones in my face are very sore, and I’m experiencing some light sensitivity; neither is very nice. Pain or not, though, I’ve been successfully running on autopilot and slowly boxing up some more things in my living room to make space for more boxes and more packing, since I know that the time with which to do so is starting to become limited. Externally, I feel like crap, and internally… I don’t know what I feel. I feel an emptiness that needs to be filled with something, though I can’t identify what that something is at this moment in time. Sort of a spiritual-type something, which I can safely assume is from all the reading and listening I’ve been doing lately on the topic. The pressure I’ve been feeling from others lately may also be taking a toll.

I haven’t been able to bring myself to eat yet today, and since it’s 10:59pm I should probably really get to that. Just can’t seem to de-cloud my mind enough to choose something and then find the energy to get up and get it.

3 days ago on 23 May 2012 @ 10:49pm 2 notes

thedailywhat:

Kickass Kid of the Day: A Maryland-based scientist has developed an incredibly accurate mechanism for detecting pancreatic cancer, which is faster than current methods, as well as 100 times more sensitive and 28 times cheaper. Oh, and the scientist is 15 years old.

For his discovery, high school freshman Jack Andraka just won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which comes with a $75,000 prize.

Andraka’s method uses single-walled carbon nanotubes — which he calls “the superheroes of material science” — to detect a pancreatic cancer marker in urine and blood samples. In a blind test, it had a 100% success rate.

“I did not expect for it to be this good,” he said, “I was blown away by how sensitive it was.”

[huffpo.]

Love.

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3 days ago on 23 May 2012 @ 10:00pm 2,479 notes