MadHATTeRs

"Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up." - 1 Corinthians 8:1

Walking through the kelvingrove with dad and mom today while the sun was still shining and topics were regarding the abundance of books we had in our home and how i thought the only things worth getting from the U.K. were old editions of old books. But we had too many books at home as it was, and mom was storing up too much junk. Too many books? Can such a phrase possibly be seen in the negative? There was no such thing as too many books as there is no such thing as attaining enough knowledge!

But no. In retrospect, and in the moment of clarity that insomnia brings, i relent. there is such a thing as having too many books. there is such a thing as having knowledge without enough love.
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meanwhile, this was saturday night:

hat flat party flat hat party hlat fat party flat pat harty!!

she wants to move

more immunological nonsense (photos included this time!!)

nerd attack! immunologists loose in the west end! before heading to the qmu
me and steve.erica, alexis, me.carol loves dancing.rooooaaaarrr!.

calum+mark.stephen is a nottie boy.luke, me, steve,?.me and greg aree in loveeee with T cells.

carol -heart- immunologists!

perception

carol : look epon, the leaves make it look like a watercolour!
epon : isn't it that a watercolour is meant to look like it?

was walking through the park amidst an emerald forest in three dimensions and thought of this snippet of our conversation. :)

my raps is beda than yours

what does carol do just 2 days before her second exam? she goes out and has a blasstttt of a timee with drunken immunologists and the like... starting out at brick on bath street, where i got very nicely relaxed on white wine, we then hopped, skipped and jumped over (narrowly missing cars) to kushion for more excellent banter and dancing.

anyhow, i would just like to reinstate that freedom, oh freedom, will be mine to have and to holldddd very very very sooon... Rrright, now if i can just keep my mind body movin' body movin' on Cox Proportional Hazards Models and oh.. a-one sound and the sound's so soothin' We be getting down and you know we're crush grooving the Nolan 7 principles of a good public servant. to my people, keep rock it on, cos my raps is beda than yours....

nerd love

soo. i have decided to take a break and present some findings from the nerd world applicable to the real world...

There is no such thing as the perfect textbook
there is no such thing as the perfect textbook. i mean, personally, Janeway(see above) is the man for me, but Janeway tends to have information on the same subject everywhere (eg. information on T cell receptors (TCR) can be found on pages 116-117, 128, 193 and 149-154.), his diagrams have the utter worst colour combinations (primary colours don't go) and he is a bit outdated.. (who doesn't know that there are 3 different types of Tregs and that Tr1 and Th3 are kinda obsolete?).


Similarly, there is no such thing as the perfect relationship, perfect person or perfect friend. But, like Janeway, there are just somethings in your life, that if you remove, it'd be analogous to cutting your right arm off. My Janeway is smothered in pencil marks, hi-lights, coffee / green tea stains and has earned the dog-ears of a well-read textbook. I know Janeway for all his inadequacies and strengths (which far outweigh the former), and if i one day woke up to see him gone, i'd be devastated.

There is such a thing as the perfect book
However, there is also such a thing as the perfect book. My bible, like janeway, has been with me forever and i've laboured into its pages for years and years. One thing different is that the bible, unlike other texts, is ALIVE. i mean it. While i am never faithful to any one book at a time (like a TCR, i am promiscuous) and tend to have 4 books at a go at the same time (hey, what can i say? I have many different needs), I find that the bible is the only one that has life-giving properties. Don't ask me to explain this in any other way, but it's supernatural. And the fact that it is written over a period of about 4000 years by multiple authors and that they all agree on the same thing is just utterly mind-blowing.

We need to go deeper
On the surface, Janeway looks incredibly daunting and reading one bit on its own can be totally taken out of context. However, persistence and perseverance has paved the way to understanding... Similarly, Romans 15:13 - we will only have joy if we know Him and we will only know him if we study about Him...

In conclusion, i'd just like to say that nerds can still have a life outside of their books... and the delving into specifics can open a world of knowledge that is broadly universal. %)

framed.

thank goodness spectables are in this season! ...for tis the season for nerding. %)

anyway, the weather in glasgow is pretttyyy amazing.. i leave my flat with the following :

• shades


• woolly hat


• umbrella (for fear of getting a tan!)


• scarf


• bundled in 3 layers and


• in my birkenstocks.
  
• (and in the evening, my ugg boots)

i kid you not.

24 hour weather

it's feels so much like air-conditioning... the coolness of the air, not a crisp cool that cuts, but a soft cool, as soothing as warmth from a soft sun. making me reminisce of the comforts of home... the cool bubble of comfort in our controlled, tightly-tweaked utopian paradise. :)