Day 206: Wheels, Deals, & Meals

 

July 25th, 2011I did some poetic justice to the title of today’s blog post by making it rhyme. In the morning, after going to EH&S, I worked for a bit before dragging Geetha along to campus Fleet Services where I washed carts for my boss. She snapped a picture and I am using it as my picture of the day. As you can see, the cart was no match for the power of all the water I sprayed naturally all over it. We went to Panda Express for the day, using a receipt from a previous purchase in a desperate attempt for a third entree. It was so unnecessary, because we both felt bloated by the time the meal was over. After going back to EHS for a bit, I picked up Geetha at Geisel before we left campus to go to Pier 1 Imports. We used a coupon for 10 bucks off there, and subsequently I bought some mugs for only 10.62, only having to pay the 62 cents roughly. Exciting Stuff. Geetha bought an okay looking lamp which is currently on my desk for storage purposes. We went to Jamba Juice afterwards so I could rejuvenate myself. Afterwards we went back to my place where I knocked out and Geetha left. I watched some Breaking Bad before meeting her again at McDonald’s, where I ate a delicious Whopper. I decided not to pursue my dollar menu millionaire thing because most of the things on the dollar menu were dessert, and I don’t want to get diabetes at such a young age. We went our seperate ways, and I went back home to watch more Breaking Bad and play more Tetris. It’s a good life.

On this day in 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) is born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England, to parents Lesley and Peter Brown. The healthy baby was delivered shortly before midnight by caesarean section and weighed in at five pounds, 12 ounces. Before giving birth to Louise, Lesley Brown had suffered years of infertility due to blocked fallopian tubes. In November 1977, she underwent the then-experimental IVF procedure. A mature egg was removed from one of her ovaries and combined in a laboratory dish with her husband’s sperm to form an embryo. The embryo then was implanted into her uterus a few days later. Her IVF doctors, British gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and scientist Robert Edwards, had begun their pioneering collaboration a decade earlier. Once the media learned of the pregnancy, the Browns faced intense public scrutiny. Louise’s birth made headlines around the world and raised various legal and ethical questions. That’s kind of gross…

Congress is at a stalemate over raising the federal debt ceiling, and Americans need to pressure their elected representatives to work out a compromise that will avoid a potentially devastating default, President Barack Obama told the nation Monday night. In his seventh prime time televised address, Obama sought to increase pressure for congressional leaders to reach a deal that would allow the government to continue borrowing money to pay its debts after August 2. The president singled out House Republicans for intransigence and said the political showdown is “no way to run the greatest country on Earth.” LOL….

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