darwin

so i get the whole darwin evolution thing. what i have been pondering recently is sex. how does that work. if at first it was all asexual reproduction and then some mutant came along without the capability to reproduce asexually and needed a partner then ...
or if it had both capabilities where did its partner come from and what are the odds of finding them? and what evolutionary benefit is sex. seems like it is easier and better to just clone oneself. Don't get me wrong here, I love sex. It is great fun. If I didn't know better I would say it is divine. I am just having a hard time seeing how needing a partner to continue the species is a benefit. I understand the genetic mixing and improving the stock of a group through breeding, but where does it all start? What is the lowest order of living thing that sexually reproduces? And what is the lowest order that does it for fun? I would research this topic more completely myself but alas all searches for sex are blocked in KSA. An unfortunate fact of life.

on you marks, get set, no.

I realize that there is the old saying about right hands knowing what the left hand is doing, but today the university made it abundantly clear that they have developed this to an entirely new level. There were as always a slew of emails sent out and there was one that had dire warning about turning in some of the grades that the teachers have been holding onto. We have had theses particular grades for more than two months at this point, so presumably they are not actually that important for any real reason.The email said if these grades were not submitted within the next two days there would be some kind of portal opening causing a doomsday scenario ending all life. This is just my paraphrasing of the email but you get the gist. The very next email sent not more than 20 minutes later from another department was about how the website which the teachers use to submit the grades was having work done and thus can not be accessed for a few days. Pure joy. Things like this make me so happy I can barely contain myself. I dont think it could be planned any better. I have actually watched TV shows where the comedic timing was less well developed. I am hoping for the next email to be about how no teachers completed the absolute necessary tasks and how we all have to do some sort of penance.

better

My foot has healed well enough for me to go out and run again. There has been a dust-storm in the city for the last few days and running was made difficult because of this. On a related note the gym where i play squash is being renovated. I think that aside from myself and the other teachers that use it to play I have seen a total of about 10 other people there. Mind you this is the main gym for a university of thousands of students. In any western nation it would be full of students. Here no one goes and yet they throw money into it. I am certainly not complaining as it will benefit me, but it does seem strange that the monetary resources are not utilized in a more generally productive way. The gym will be closed for about 4 days and then partially reopened as parts are finished. Until then I will be out in the dust running from boredom, wasting time and watching the world pass by.