i've been cleaning up/packing, and i came across my old keychain. It's this round rectangle of white plastic that used to have an hp logo on it (i think), but i haven't used it for years. at least five, i'd imagine. now it seems to have this layer of plastic "sweat". i'm not sure exactly what it is, though, but i wonder.

not everyone thinks this way, though. some people would just be like, gross, and throw it away. I remember senior year of college, i noticed that my bike seat would collect a layer of dew at night. The peculiar thing is, the water would collect only on the upward facing surface, not on the sides or bottoms. I imagine this has to do with gravity, and water droplets condensing then falling straight down, but maybe it has to do with heat radiating at certain angles and the sky and stuff. Anyway, I started hypothesizing while talking to Chester in his room, and he got all impatient and was all, Why do you care? I was shocked--why _wouldn't_ anyone care?

I guess that was my rude awakening to the non-scientific mind.