clawing my way to the middle

Really, I got nothin. So little is going on in my life right now I cannot even be interesting.

It was a bit overcast this morning, it reminds me of camping. You get up in the morning, just as the sun comes up but has not broken thru the clouds yet. Everything feels humid and you are ready to jump in the water, even though it's freezing. Overcast summer mornings always remind me of camping- coming out of a tent and seeing the lake. I have fond - maybe nostalgic- memories of camping, but I don't like to camp. Ok, I haven't BEEN camping in a long time- not since Paul and I went to Joshua Tree and I froze all night long. It was too cold to get out of my sleeping bag to even climb into HIS. I just shivered and seethed all night, and vowed NEVER to camp again.

E-husband talks about camping, but I've always been able to convince him otherwise. But I do have memories. Perhaps I've just blocked out the bad memories, or just can't save space for them anymore. I have better bad memories to save.

School starts in three weeks and I'm strangely looking forward to it. This has been a weird summer. I've spent a lot of time with my family, which is great. I have much to be grateful for- but I really just want to get back to school. I am bored and I feel unproductive, just being at home. No papers to write, no studying to do. No research. Maybe it's because I'm a senior, and I'm graduating this year. And Cheryl and I are taking a vacation because we are both graduating in May. Can't wait.

I have much to look forward to and I just want to get it started.

I leave you with this. I got this in a myspace bulletin, it made me laugh.



The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic
(absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law
(gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some
variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we
need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate
at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a
soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different
religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state
that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.
Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not
belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to
Hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of
souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of
change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for
the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of
Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls
enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase
until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in
Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes
over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year
that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take
into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2
must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already
frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it
follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore,
extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine
being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A"