today i had a nice surprise. we all got an email yesterday saying that the morning shuttle would only be an 8-seater, quite a letdown considering we already fight for spots on a 20-seater. so this morning, as a took the subway to the shuttle location, i had a big internal struggle about whether i should just get in a taxi when i got off the subway, or walk the ten minutes to the spot where the shuttle is and hope that there would still be spots. this may not seem like a big deal, but for someone as lazy as me, it was extremely tempting to throw in the towel and skip the walk. but as a soon to be unemployed person, i realized that i need to start being a bit more careful with my money. and i thought there might be other people waiting at the shuttle location who hadn't fit, so maybe they would pay for the cab, since technically we can get reimbursed for that, i just don't know how to do it. anyway i got over there, about two minutes before the shuttle was set to leave, and there were still two seats left! this reminded me about what i learned in intro psych about group psychology. everyone had assumed that the shuttle would be full, and so they had preemptively sought other means of transportation. and so lucky me didn't have to pay for a cab.
speaking of psychologists and scientists, i've beeen thinking that article in the Times a couple of months ago about sexuality, where the doctor said that he didn't think women had a sexual orientation based on their sexual responses to pictures and questions they were asked. this article annoyed the hell out of me, because i think this guy really did not properly interpret his results at all. i mean, there are several ways he could have interpreted his findings. he could have asked, is there a reason that the vagina, which i have equated with a penis (!) responds differently to the stimuli? Or he could have asked, is there a factor of sexual orientation that exists in a location besides the genitalia, like the brain perhaps? its funny cuz i guess i mean sure i consider myself a feminist, but i've never really been the kind of person to get angry about things. but it is pretty annoying to hear some idiot guy making dumb claims in the NY Times about women's sexuality.