0 A Distinct Buzzing...

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzche It's funny to think of the fact that everything that has ever been synonyms with fly has been annoying. Flies are these insects that buzz around the back of your head, filling your ears with their nonsense. It makes sense that a gadfly would be someone who spent their time buzzing around, filling others with questions they don't even want answered. And as all insects and everything else in the world, the gadfly has evolved into what we know as the modern fly. Modern day slavery gadflies are in a higher abundance and are just as written off as they once were....

0 It's the Issue of Diluted Lemonade...

"But I say: 'Why invite stress in?' Stop studying strife and learn to live 'the unexamined life'." - "Dancing through Life" from Wicked: The Musical I won't segue in this time with a long winded introduction, with the history of philosophy and human questions and life styles and quotes and general rambling and the like. Not this time, I just won't do that. For once I'll be getting straight to the point. Which may or may not happen again. I wouldn't count on it. [/not so hidden introduction and stalling] I'm not one to say whether or not your life is worth living. I don't think that is my place, or the one of anyone else for that matter. How...

5 Dearly Beloved, We Have Gathered Here...

"Funerals are for the living." - John Green, The Fault in our Stars Once, in her biology class, the teacher started the year by telling the students that someone was going to say "orgasm" instead of "organism", just as someone did every year. The students did not believe her. Sydney did not believe her. Needless to say (for you may have heard it from someone else), Sydney was the one to say it during a presentation on genetically altered food. Also needless to be said (but will be said regardless), she had yet to live it down, nor did she expect to. She took it in stride, tried to forget about it, and avoided the subject of biology like the...