Cows @ MindSay

Researchers in the UK are applying for permission to start mixing human and cow DNA for stem cell research.
This is gonna be so awesome!
I can't wait until the cow people rise up in rebellion against the mad scientists who gave them life

Let me explain why I love going to the gym the first three weeks or so of January...and by 'love' I actually mean 'hate' because when you go in there, it's infested with the crowds of fat moo's that made resolutions that they will promptly break before January is even up. Even though the crowds of heffers on the treadmills is annoying, it's also quite amusing to watch over the course of the few days as people slowly trickle away back to their fat domains, only to make another worthless resolution the next year.

Now - why make a resolution to go to the gym and not keep it? Why make a resolution at all? I've been going to the gym religiously since I was 18...it's not that hard to put it in your schedule as part of your work day.

But of course, then we have the crowd 'I can't help it that I'm fat I'm too busy and its' genetics and blah blah blah my dogs fat too and so is my cat and I have to feed them and my fat kids so I can't go to the gym' etc at el.....

Hey - look at it this way, those people keep the gym in business because they sign up for a yearly membership on January 2nd and use the gym 8 times never to step foot in there again.

Yay for fat people!

An ant problem that is. I have currently been under invasion from ants this past month. Yes, I know that myself and, well, mostly, the other inhabitants of this apartment are to blame. However, acording to our landlord, such a thing couldn't occur because the building is built of cement, and no insects could get in, unless we opened the windows and took the screens out. Well, the screens have been in, cement is indeed the main matirial in the building, but you tell that to not only the ants, but the spiders, house centepides, and various other little creepy crawly things that I can't identify. For the most part, the spiders and centepides ect. haven't been a problem, but with ants coming in, along do more of the above said follow. I think I see two places where they are entering, right under the sink, and the front door. They didn't even knock! Anyway, with the bunny here, we are at limits as to what to do, at the moment, I just put down some black pepper. I'll give that a little bit, so much for washing the floors.

Steve is at his parents house this weekend, helping his father put up some fence that the cows got through. Hey DrunkenOso, got any good steak recipies? PS, we are still pondering every once in a while about that bunny recipe. :) Its just so hard when every time you start to think about how tasty it would be she comes up and starts giving you kisses. While he is down there, I opted to stay here and clean, clean, homework. Downtown is celebrating halloween on Satruday, Steve will be coming up for that, hopefully I have the place pretty good before he gets here. I'm going as a china doll. I bought a dress a while back from Chinatown, and I'm going to paint myself white, and literally be a doll. I tell people "china doll" and they imidiatly go, "Oh, your going to be a geisha, lots of people are doing that!" Noooot quite.

I should start cleaning some more, I have a lot to do, before I even start on homework! I'll have to write later about schooling, some of what I'm doing is really cool, the rest of it........ well....... not so much.

Niu - Cow soon to be Niu Rou - Beef?

That’s the question I asked when our company bus pulled up beside these bovines on a Linyi road. They are riding in the back of a small truck and didn’t seem too stable. They were clearly unhappy and uncomfortable.

Poor girls.

I grew up on a farm and I have a soft spot for cows. I’ve become more and more of a vegetarian eater in recent years. Except for the occasional meat feast at a Xinjiang people’s restaurant, my diet usually consists of vegetables, noodles, rice and fish. If you were to see the way meat gets sold here - usually half the pig or cow displayed on a table on the sidewalk - you might understand why I eat less and less of it.

Just a little Bovine humour for my Mindsay peeps. The definitions of various political styles, as they relate to ... cows: