I have always wanted to know more about science, to be able to discuss it at length with people who understand it. My man Simon (hehehe) is a science and maths whizz and he can have these discussion and I will not lie, I am jealous. I wish I had the brain to comprehend science (and he in turn wishes he had the brain to comprehend the law but to me the law is easy, if I can get it, anyone can..I KNOW the same is not true of science).
This is why I was getting a stiffy when I saw the ad on the tv for The Independent and their fortnight long science made easy booklets, I have missed out on the first two but ordered them from the website (part of the money goes to charity, I'm not saying that so people think I'm a good person, I'm saying it because it is like killing two birds with one stone..two get educated for the price of one).
Anyway, I got yesterday's and I tested Simon on it and to his credit he knew everything in it, I even had a discussion about Charles Darwin with my mum on the phone last night whilst I was loading the washing machine and she was ironing. I love how by doing one small thing you can connect with people so close to you, we would never have had that conversation had I not gotten into those tiny books.
I decided last night that I would take the book with me on the tube to work this morning but I got late and couldn't find it so I had to read my vampire book.
The rest are coming and I am very excited as I am finally understanding things better. Simon has been taking the piss out of me for it, he is home with a cold today and he asked me to pick up The Metro for him because he wants to "expand his mind"..the exact answer he gave me when I told him why I was defecting from The Times to The Independent for a few weeks..damn him.
Also, talking of Darwin, this is the discussion I had with my mum, how did he decide one day that we came from monkeys? Why was it monkeys and not another animal? This is why I would love to be a scientist because you can think of all wacky things that just might be true..everyone back then shunned him and some people even do it now, he must have been a renegade to think that we came from animals and not God..amazing.
Next topic: The intimacy of a human body. This is nothing pervy (which will come as a surprise to all that know me). I love the feeling of being able to come home after a stressful day at work and cuddling up to Simon, knowing that his is the same body that fits mine so well, where my head finds its way to where it belongs. No matter what has happened to me that day, the second I fall into that space, everything is at one and the world is great again. Knowing that I can draw a picture of his body with my eyes closed and get EVERYTHING in the right place is a great feeling and I am grateful for him and the piece of mind his existence gives me.
I think this is all.
