Unnatural selection

So, I cut myself only four times today with the razor. :) The devotional/forum today was on Darwin and the tree of life and was extremely interesting. A few years ago I bought a copy of The Origin of Species for 50 cents at the local thrift store, so I'm going to begin reading it. As Prof. Whiting was talking about entomology and his research, I really wanted to become a scientist, but I realized that that's not my future. Some things will just have to remain hobbies... Speaking of what is to be my future, this morning for my ELANG reading the topic was pragmatics and discourse analysis. Wow was it fun! I've realized in the past few weeks that humans and human behavior interest me more than almost anything. Language itself is interesting, of course, but the most fun part for me is how humans use it.

Last week we got a notice that our electricity would be shut off by today unless we switched it to our name. So last night we called up and set up a new account in my name, paying the $75 deposit via debit card. They promised that our power wouldn't be shut off today. This morning I left for school thinking all would be well, but at 9:30 I got a call from my roommate: "Did you take care of the power bill? The power's out." After several phone calls to the city utilities people throughout the day, and two visits from the power people (all while I was at work), I figured it would be fixed. Got home at 3:30 and no, it wasn't fixed. But I did find that the power meter for the upstairs apartment was working (the wheel was spinning). Called the utilities people up and found that they apparently mixed up our two addresses (873 for upstairs and 875 for us), so they'd thought it was working the whole time. :) But we did get it back on, and no, I don't think everything in the refrigerator melted (thank heavens!).