Today, much to my chagrin, I got to pretend to be a chemist. I am not really a chemist, but I know physics so, the chemistry can't be all that difficult right? So, I got to do chemistry. It was much simpler than I remember it being from back in school, all I had to do was plug and chug some numbers. Was chemistry always this simple? I don't know.

Of course, I was not doing real chemistry. I didn't have to derive anything or pull new specs out of my arse. I was only finding numbers.

Ye flippin Gods, is that what it means to be a physicist? To constantly try to emulate other fields of science? Or, are they trying to emulate us? I don't know. To be honest, I don't really do any hard thinking for my job. Of course, I rarely get the chance to do any hard thinking at all. Perhaps my standards of thinking are too high? I don't know. I am quite enjoying floating through life only having to use half my brain. Of course, the other half of my brain may soon be withered into nothingness from disuse. (I'm not talking left brain/right brain here, just brain power.)

Perhaps I need to pick up some more hobbies to occupy the rest of my mind, something that will really make me think, use some of the brains I was given for good (or perhaps evil...). I don't know. Some days I feel like a useless genius, but then I realize most of us run of the mill geniuses (I'm not super genius, just a regular one) are all underused because we don't have anywhere to go in life.

Perhaps I need to dig out a sense of drive to actually use some of my supposed smarts. I like to do my work as I'm given it (which is too slow to occupy all of my time here at work). I like to think of faster ways to get things done so I can dawdle around in my brain thinking of useless things that have seized my interest for the week or month or whatever.

Lately, my interests have been leaning toward food and the science of cooking. Cooking is in fact a science. Proper mixture, proper methods, proper ingredients; all of these things are part of the science. Ah well, I don't know. I am trying to get back in touch with my heritage of Cuban cuisine, so I peruse the internet looking for recipes and fiddling with them til they meet my personal specifications of taste. Soon.... Soon others will be forced to try my culinary creations.

Well, that's enough of my pointless babble. I should go and crawl into a corner and mope the day away.

Posted by Utopia at April 21, 2005 10:12 AM

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