le bouquin

Couple of dreams last night.

The first one involved me coming up with a great recipe for either a hamburger or taco salad. My secret ingredient was to add tiny slices of fried potato, kind of like hash browns, into either the meat or as a topping, to make the meal crispier.

A later dream that caused me to finally wake up had me in someone's residence, with some friends back from high school. We were chasing butterflies outside and catching up on lost time. Back inside, I overheard someone gossiping in Cantonese that my brother was going to propose to his ex-girlfriend. My initial thought was,"What the hell?!" and I woke up.

Hmm, nobody seems to be in lab... yet it's already 9:15. They must be over at the other campus doing whatever Grand Rounds is on Thursdays.

Time for more Wilde-isms!

"Women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on in their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took lovers, it was merely to have some one with whom they could have scenes."

"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take toward life."

"The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colorless. They lack individuality. Still, there are certain temperaments that marriage makes more complex. They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos. They are forced to have more than one life. They become more highly organized, and to be highly organized is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence."

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"Women are wonderfully practical, much more practical than we are."

"Women inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces, and always prevent us from carrying them out."

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"

Hmm, I wonder if it's possible to quote too much from a book.