Today happened to be a day that I, for once, did not have morning classes.

But that doesn’t matter. There was a fire alarm at my apartment this morning, so I left to main campus ear­ly anyway.

Sometimes I wonder what I possibly could have done to cause good luck to eschew me like the plague.

I didn’t want to stand outside in the freezing cold to wait for the fire department to come into our apartment and tell us that there wasn’t really a fire and it was just some idiot who doesn’t know how to use his oven, so I quickly packed everything up and headed to the library. I didn’t get a chance to shower, so if you happened to see me in person today, now you know why my hair was particularly clumpy and misshapen.

During my sociological enterprise lecture, we had a guest lecturer come to talk about sexuality on Face­book. I think the most interesting part about this presentation was that the guest lecturer’s hair was pink.

From what I got out of the presentation, this sociologist basically did research by interviewing a lot of homosexual and bisexual people about their experiences with their sexuality and how much of it they reveal on Facebook in what manner. The bulk of the presentation felt like the lecturer was biased in favor of homosexual and bisexual people, and it seemed like the lecturer was just complaining about how homosexual and bisexual people are not treated in a perfect manner by their peers.

She was audacious enough to even say that in the new Facebook timeline interface, “coming out of the closet” should be added as one of the default life events that you can add to your timeline, along with events such as getting married and having your first child.

I didn’t mention this during the presentation because I didn’t want to point out how pathetic of an ar­gu­ment she had, but I’m sure you can clearly see why that’s a horrible suggestion. According to Wiki­pedia, about 3.8% of Americans are LGTBQRSTUV. Why would anyone cre­ate an item that would only be used by 3.8% of the pop­ulation?

(Update: Thanks to a reader named Alexa for pointing out that the percentage of LGBT is 3.8% and not 3.5%; I forgot to add in the 0.3% of transgenders. It has been fixed above.)

On my way back from class, I witnessed an old woman with a cane crossing the street at a speed of about a kilometer per hour and holding up traffic. You see the theoretical comic scenario all the time, but I actually saw it in real life.

That definitely counts as an accomplishment.

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#DS570: Illustrate time in a photograph today. (Assigned June 8, 2011.)

An out-of-focus shot of my iPod.