She Blinded Me With Science

Tonight I took my kids to see The Wonders of Physics, a science demonstration on the UW Madison campus. It was chock full of really cool experiments, and after literally five minutes, my daughter leaned over to me, eyes shining brightly, and said: "I want to be a scientist!"

It was super cute and just the reaction that the Physics department was hoping to have on the youngsters.

I reckon it's too late for me. The closest I've gotten to being a scientist is an undergraduate major in Political Science, and I can tell you from where I sit these days, there aren't many cool experiments going down at the Capitol. I blame my high school Psychics teacher for the lack of consideration I gave science as a possible career path. He was one of the worst teachers I had in my entire 18 years as a student.

Not surprisingly, the song that was going through my head on the way home, dredged up from the inner recesses of the internal jukebox, was this one:

It's poetry in motion
She turned her tender eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And failed me in biology

When I'm dancing close to her
Blinding me with science - science
I can smell the chemicals
Science
Science

Mmm - but it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And failed me in geometry

When she's dancing next to me
Blinding me with science - science
Science
I can hear machinery
'Blinding me with science - science
Science

It's poetry in motion
And now she's making love to me
The spheres are in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And hit me with technology