9/27, no. 47

When light strikes the cornea, it bends--or refracts--the incoming light onto the lens. The lens further refocuses that light onto the retina, a layer of light sensing cells lining the back of the eye that starts the translation of light into vision. For you to see clearly, light rays must be focused by the cornea and lens to fall precisely on the retina. The retina converts the light rays into impulses that are sent through the optic nerve to the brain, which interprets them as images.

9/4, no. 29

it's been a real lazy Sunday, evidently. I walked to Life Center Church with Juhyun and Justin, where we met up with Talison, Kyle, and Todd. the service was really vibrant and the speaker, Pastor Jackson Senyonga from Uganda, was really charismatic. Justin, Juhyun, and I walked to Quizno's afterwards and then back to campus, where Justin and I met up with Angelica, Tom-Erik, Rachel, and Todd, and hung out in my dorm for a bit before heading over to downtown 6th ave to get some Indian food and just walk around. it was nice. we came back to our dorm building and played Mario Kart and did some work.

this is a poem my friend posted on her own blog almost four years ago. I never found any real significance for these words at least in the context of my own life - for all I knew, this poem's meaning was irrelevant to my life, as I had no boyfriend/serious love interest or anything. it's just the kind of poem that really caught my attention and stuck with me for all these years, as if I was subconsciously chasing the anxious feeling of this poem in order to render these words significant for myself.

anyway, this is it; she only had words, so I conjured up an unnecessary but somewhat apt title: To Boy.

You, sitting pretty there

With a handsome jawline and fine hair

Do give me a blank stare

As I tell you how my love does unfurl and flare

For your undying care.

But you look as though unaware

And my pleading looks contort into a glare

As I realize

Your silence screeches so loud

It deafens the air -

please, please

say you care.