Really, universe? No one cares or wants to help me find Mario's hat? No one has info or ideas on other worlds/courses it could be in? Screw you guys. Thanks for nothing.
Also, I looove my husband for getting me the next 3 books in the Walking Dead series (11-13). AND for finally explaining to me how this works. Apparently each month there's a new comic that comes out. I don't know much about the world of comics except what I see on Big Bang Theory. So he has been getting me the "Trade Paperbacks" which are nifty little books that I assumed were the monthly comics that come out.
And I cruise through them like they are candy - fast, awesome reads. I have heard that there are like 75 issues so I'm thinking "Sweet, I'll get through all the current books while waiting for season 2 to start in the fall!" but guess what? These books? They aren't an issue. The books are 6 issues compiled together. I am a fool. I would never have read them so quickly if I had known that there weren't 60 more of them! Because I seriously read all three books today. In one sitting. OHMYGOSH I love it.
I guess now we start getting the actual comics every month, which is going to kill me. Like seriously, I have no patience or sense of delayed gratification on things like this. Agony. Pure agony.
AND I just finished reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on my Kindle. I was turned onto the story of Henrietta Lacks and her HeLa cells after hearing her family's story on a RadioLab podcast (Sidenote: Are you all listening to RadioLab? Because you should be listening to it. Just saying is all. Get on it. Subscribe to it. Listen to it while you do dishes, or laundry, or whatever. I know I'm late to the podcast game, but I obviously want everyone to get in on it.). Cells taken from her cancerous tumor were the first to thrive in a laboratory setting, and reproduced so prolifically that they became the standard cell for testing, shared with labs all over the world, and used in developing so many vaccines, medicines, and treatments. In the meantime her family had no idea her cells were used, and didn't fully comprehend what it meant that her cells were everywhere, doing these amazing things in the world of science/medicine, and no one ever sat them down and explained it to them, quelled their fears and anxieties. I already know that I'll likely be googling around to learn more about this.