When my mom came to help me with my patio (back story on her blog, yes my mom has a blog now www.malibu566.blogspot.com) she also happened to break a sprinkler pipe. It was a pipe that had just been capped off and she assured me it wasn't active and it wouldn't make a difference if she just covered it with the sand and stones. Fast-forward to the next morning. I called her to see that she made it home safely because she had left before I was even awake. At this point she told me the sprinkler line was active, the stones had shifted slightly underneath and I had to fix it. Sprinklers aren't really my forte so I went to the hardware store and bought one of everything I thought might work.

Turns out this is all I needed. It only took about five minutes to repair and now the patio is beautiful again and no more shifting has occurred.

The fifth grade

So my roommate Dereem is a fifth grade teacher at the Lutheran school in Bakersfield and this is the last week of school for her students. She had saved sex education for the last two weeks of school. The fifth grade is the only grade in the school which receives this education so needless to say Dereem has been stressing. She was able to cover the material provided in the curriculum while giving a Christian perspective with biblical references. In her teaching she covered pretty thoroughly but appropriately anatomy and what is normal in "body functioning". When the material had been covered she gave the students the opportunity to ask questions via slips of paper which she then answered keeping the anonymity of the students. As her roommate I was given the opportunity to read some of their questions and had to share at least a few.

• With twins do they each get a separate uterus or do they have to share one?
• Why do we have to wear bras?
• How do you know when you start your period?
• How do you know when your water breaks?

Now if she hadn't already gone over all of this some of these questions wouldn't be so odd. Here are my top two favorite

• Can the tails of sperm get cut off in any way?
• How do you tell your wife or husband you're not ready to have sex yet?

False memories

Well, I should have been at home writing a paper on false memories instead I went out and created some non-false memories. Bowling is so much better than writing a paper. Especially when I still have over a week to finish it.

Rob

Jenny

Me

Micah

Bowling alley bowling shoes vs non-bowling alley bowling shoes. It really doesn't matter which pair is cuter because at least I had the luxury of knowing my feet were the only feet to have ever worn my shoes.

Brain and consciousness

I am taking a course this quarter for my upper division general education requirement called the brain and consciousness. After eight and a half weeks I am not sure that I have really learned anything. Don't get me wrong I have been presented with a lot of information and have even retained a good amount of what has been presented, I'm just not sure I have learned anything. Well in today's lecture the teacher provided us with a quote from G. Spencer Brown's The Laws of Form

• "Discoveries of any great moment in mathematics and other disciplines, once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer, appear foolish for not having discovered them before. It is all too often forgotten that the ancient symbol for the prenascence of the world* is a fool, and that foolishness, being a divine state, is not a condition to be either proud or ashamed of.
  Unfortunately, we find systems of education today which have departed so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one's ignorance.
  To any person prepared to enter with respect into the realm of his great and universal ignorance, the secrets of being will eventually unfold, and they will do so in measure according to his freedom from natural and indoctrinated shame in his respect of their revelation."

My teacher who might I add begins all his e-mails with yo, then summarized this as "If you know less at the end of this course than you knew at the beginning, then your understanding has grown." The sad fact is after I successfully pass this course all I am really going to ask myself is am I conscious now?

More dodger fun

Mother's day weekend my mom, dad, uncle, cousins and I went to Dodger Stadium. Unfortunately we lost, but at least we had a good time. I love going to games Dodger dogs, peanut (yes I mean peanut not peanuts. I only eat one), and baseball.

Dad and Uncle Richard

Emily

Feet

Emily, Mom and Me

Kameron turned two last Wednesday and his party was on Sunday at the petting zoo. Jenny asked me to make cowboy boot cakes, she made a tractor. Here are pictures of the cakes and Kameron's party at the petting zoo. It was 95 degrees, the hottest day by far this year.