That Part of Me

   (first off yay for another stupid title)
   Recently my brother got rejected by the college I currently go to. To say I was shocked is an understatement because I was more confident that he would get in than I was when I applied two years ago. I fully expected for him to get in and have no idea why that didn't happen and we'll never know. But that's not what this post is about. What it's about is that while I was sad to hear the news, there was also this little part of me that was like "ha".

   Now why would that little part of me think like this? Here's why: everyone, and I mean everyone, in my family, constantly talks about how my brother is so smart and is a prodigy and yada yada. This is especially true with my grandma who always is like "I'm so proud of you Jessica but just wait until your brother gets out there". Maybe not word for word like that but it's the same idea every time that my brother is just so much smarter than me no matter what I do. In some way this feels like a tiny victory for that part of me that has been growing that seed of doubt in myself because of those constant comments by my family. And maybe hearing those things and wanting to prove them all wrong are why I'm so motivated to do well in my classes in which case I guess a shot to my self-esteem may be worth taking.

Random Facts

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave. 

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.  

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired" 

Before astronomers realized solar eclipses were caused by the moon, the Chinese thought an enormous dragon swallowed the sun, and they made as much noise as possible to scare the dragon away.   

Scientists suggest that most people will fall in love approximately seven times before marriage.

You cannot snore and dream at the same time.

In general, pregnant women remember dreams more than other populations.

 People who are born blind report no visual imagery in dreams, but they experience a heightened sense of taste, touch, and smell. Those who become sightless between the ages of five and seven may have visual images in their dreams, while those who lose their vision after age seven continue to “see” in their dreams, though images tend to fade as they grow older.

For reasons that are unknown, males dream of males more often than females dream of males. This sexual asymmetry is universal and has emerged from at least 29 different comparisons of male and female dreams—and it holds true for children, adolescents, and adults in all parts of the world.