Here, There, and Everywhere

God damn it!

My copy of the Beatles' Rubber Soul has a scratch on it, so I can't listen to "I'm Looking Through You"! Fuck!

Speaking of the Beatles, I asked my Fortran professor after class if he's from Liverpool. A dude I know was like, real serious, "I think it's England." After the prof explained to the dude that Liverpool is in England, it turned out the prof had studied in Liverpool a bit but has been told that he has a North Country accent. Then he went on about the Beatles and their accents whose intensities vary depending on their background, such as John having a heavy Liverpudlian accent and knowing Scouse because he came from a real working-class family.

So my professor is a Beatles fan, which is cool. I would have liked to have ridden the elevator with him to continue our little chat--just for the sake of conversation and not so much ass-kissing--but the "England" guy had to talk to him about stuff actually concerning the class so I left.

I used to dislike the Beatles when I was a kid. Then I got really obsessed with them, but now not so much. I realized just how much I really like them this morning during my Hydraulics class. My professor (the one with the ear hair who is, by the way, a boring and verbose motherfucker) was talking about surface tension and gave an example of beetles "knowing" about this and hence they can walk on water. When he mentioned that I thought to myself, "When did they do that?" I was thinking maybe it was an obtuse reference to John Lennon saying "We're more popular than Jesus" and it took me a while to figure out that my prof was actually talking about bugs.

And speaking of Jesus...It snowed in the DC area recently so the ground is wet all around here. On the train station floor, I saw what seemed to be the face of Jesus Christ drawn in the mud. Now I am a good Catholic boy and I don't mean to be blasphemous, but I was wondering about the possibility that this could have been a miracle. Of course it's purely coincidental that the mud took the shape of Christ and one might imagine a lot more things that the mud might look like. Incidentally, a study just ended about a statue of the Madonna that shed tears of blood a decade ago which concluded that the incident was "supernatural". Hmmm...