These posts were imported from my LiveJournal. I may or may not go through them and categorize them later.
It's in the 40s right now in Spokane, and the snow is melting, and turning slushy, and it's not very happy. The poor snow, given a chance at life, but then that chance is stolen away. *sigh* I hope it won't all be gone before the next freeze hits and it gets cold again. I've really been enjoying having snow in the winter for a pleasant change from Portland. At least now I can wear shorts and a t-shirt with impunity.
Aaron and I decided to be gentlemanly and walk someone home to her house. So, we went along with her, and talked for a while. Then left her there. It turns out that her house is just behind Safeway, so we went in to see if we wanted to get anything. We ended up getting some Thomas Kemper soda, as their Ginger Ale is bloody good (as far as I could tell, having it once). So, we're walking back from Safeway to our dorm to drop off the soda before going to get Pulp Fiction and Snatch, when some guys call out to us, "Is that beer?" Thinking it amusing, I yell back, "No. It's a collection of soda," so as to make them think that, yes, it is beer. They ask if they can have one, because they still don't believe me, naturally. I see no need to correct them, because that would involve opening one and letting them try it, so I yell out "sorry," as Aaron says "We're connoisseurs." They say something along the lines of "Blast," and we walk off. I was amused.
Well, today Aaron and I did something very fun. We got dressed in just shorts and shoes, and we ran outside in the snow in the 10 degree weather, and threw a frisbee around for probably ten or twelve minutes. Then, we both threw ourselves into the snow, shirtless and in shorts. It was snowing this whole time. I made a snow angel, but it didn't turn out quite as well as I wish it could have. Then, we went inside and took a shower. I went out later and took a picture, and realized that the snow angel wasn't quite as large as it felt. It is still recognizable, as far as anything that is fully one color and relying on vague night-time shadows to be recognizable in a picture.
Well, I am quite happy. It is 3 degrees Fahrenheit outside, and I still have not made the concession of wearing pants. I do require my fleece jacket to not be utterly frozen, but with that on the cold is not bad. At least, it's not DEATH when there's no wind. If the wind picks up, I may very well put on a pair of sweats or jeans.
Anyway, I am making the best use of the cold. There is a bush outside the door of our dorm that Aaron and I are right next to, and really the only one we use. So, I took a glass of water, and poured it there. I'll keep doing that until the winter is out and we have a bush encased in a block of ice. I also decided to make the windowsill outside our window into an icy wonderland (and make some hopefully impressive sheets of ice stretching down from our window). Wish me luck in my endeavors!
Wheeee! More work on my site. Photo pages and Painting pages are utterly complete.
Next to follow are all of the sketches that I've scanned over the years.
Time to sleep, as I've got a class tomorrow morning at 8:00.
Yesterday was very enjoyable. I had a ton of classes, from 8:00 in the morning until 5:00 in the evening, with only two hours of break. But, I enjoyed it, because all of my teachers seemed interesting, with the possible exception of ym programming teacher, and the class itself ought to be interesting enough to make up for it. Then, after doing all that, I decided to not do any of my homework (I still had a whole day to do most of it) and work om my website.
I figured out that the server supported SSI, which I'd used a little bit before, and I used it to great effect. Now, instead of changing every page when I want to adjust the layout of the pages, I can simply change the layout html code, and it will be done on every page. It took a lot of work (most of yesterday) to set that up, but it's a long-term investment, and I can change the layout whenever I want. It's awesome. Anyway, I also added a bit of content, and connected a few of the pages that I hadn't linked to the rest of the site. It might take a little work to find all of them, though. Next step for my web site: add some more content, and work out a decent site organization. It's a bit convoluted now.
Anyway, today I only had one class, because the physics-related one was cancelled, so I did a lot of nothing. I cleaned up a lot of my papers, learned a bit of php, and talked to various people about philosophy and religion. That was fun.
More tomorrow, probably. You get to read all of my extensive impressions of my teachers, sometime tomorrow or Saturday. Goodnight.
Well, I've had most of my classes. In fact, I've had all of them, with the exception of the Physics recital (with my normal physics teacher) and my Physics lab (also with him). Here's my class schedule, if you're at all interested. I've got 19 credits, and I may join the choir, which would mean an additional 1 credit. I have decided that I probably won't take voice lessons this semester, because I'm going to focus on working hard and developing a work ethic. Yes, Smurf has decided (once again) to try to be responsible. Let's hope that it turns out better than those in the past have. Anyway, here ya go.
Honors Literature II
Patsy S. Fowler
12:00pm – 12:50pm
MWF
Digital Computer Programming – ENSC 104 03
Steven D. Schennum
2:10pm – 5:00pm
MW
History of US I Honors – HIST 273 HON
Kevin C. Chambers
10:00am – 10:50am
MWF
Calculus-Analytic Geometry II – MATH 258 03
Dean S. Larson
1:10pm – 2:00pm
MTWF
Scientific Physics I – PHYS 103 02
Dennis W. Garvey
8:00am – 8:50am
MWF
Scientific Physics I Lab – PHYS 103L 06
Dennis W. Garvey
2:10pm – 5:00pm
F
Scientific Physics I Recite – PHYS 103R 04
Dennis W. Garvey
1:10pm – 2:00pm
R
Honors NT:Matthew Mark Luke – RELI 124H 01
Kevin B. McCruden
2:10pm – 3:25pm
TR
I've not had any of these teachers before, with the exception of Larson, who was my Calc teacher last term. I wrote down, in each class, my first thoughts about the professors, and I will post those sometime. Most of my teachers seem quite interesting. One may or may not be, I haven't gotten a clear impression. But a couple of the others are going to be particularly good, particularly fun, or both. So, I am happy. Have a nice day, all you silly folks wherever you are.
Well, I've finally started uploading bunches of pictures to the internet. I started at the most recent stuff, along with some random stuff. So, if you're interested in seeing some pictures, you should take a look.
Take some looks back here to see when I update them. I've got lots more pictures to put up. Some artistic, some just random and fun. I'll write here more about my new classes, and my teachers. Probably tomorrow, if I have the time. You never know; I might.
Goodnight. Got to wake up tomorrow at 8:00.
Here's my away message for a few hours today:
I'm in an interesting state of mind. I'm having interesting thoughts. I'm being introspective. Therefore, it is time to write. I'm not sure what I'll write. It may be deep thoughts; it may be poetry; it may be a letter; it may be fiction; it may be any one of a number of things. All I am certain of is that I'm going to write. Wake me when it's time to live.
Here's what I ended up writing, with the exception of the bad poetry:
Don't bother reading this unless you can stand reading some scattered thoughts, and probably a bunch of unclear stuff. My own thoughts were more clear, but I'm only beginning to learn how to express them effectively. And I didn't put too much work into that aspect; these are mostly recorded for myself. Read them at your own peril.
I've been confused about a number of things, in a situation that I'm not really sure how to solve. Every time I think about it, I get just about nowhere, and I can't help but think about it a lot. All this in my mind has made me go a little crazy, sometimes. But, this has a purpose. I'm not complaining about my life, I'm telling an amusing anecdote. Interesting way of starting it off, huh?
Anyway, last night, around 2:00 or so, my roommate Aaron and I were discussing random things. We had watched A Beautiful Mind (definitely on my list of favorite movies now, I'm just not quite sure where it places), and were discussing things. We got into talking about our favorite movies were all so very different from one another and how that (at first glance) didn't seem to make all that much sense. I mean, we liked movies all across the board in subject, and it would seem that if you like one movie, and there was another in the same genre that wasn't quite as good, then you would like that other movie better than some good movies in other genres. But we looked at the possibility of having a sequel of a movie, so the same movie, the same script, and having it done very well. We asserted that it was a good movie. Would you enjoy watching both of them, or would one take on preference, and the other not be worth watching? That was the question. But with a little bit of thinking, we decided that both would be very good to watch, and you really wouldn't get as complete an idea of the movie without seeing both. Aaron compared it to a play; seeing a couple different productions of the same play is always good, so it stands to sense that the same thing would hold for movies.
Later, we were talking about the difference between two movies, A Beautiful Mind versus Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. They seemed very similar in theme to me. They both seemed (to me) to be focused on the relationship of two people, and that was the main point of the movie. But Aaron pointed out that, although A Beautiful Mind was definitely focused on the relationship as its point, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind instead focused on the relationship as a way of communicating an idea besides the relationship. This made a lot of sense to me, and I was happy.
Why are these amusing anecdotes? And how the devil do they connect to a situation in which I feel helpless to find answers? Well, since I have been thinking about this problem for so long, and since I haven't been able to come to any conclusions, it was a wonderful feeling to think about something and come to logical conclusions immediately and easily. I find it amusing that it's such a wonderful feeling when that happens, because it shows how much this problem has screwed my mind.
Hehehe. Bad things make other things funnier! Perhaps this is the answer to the age-old question of why there is evil. It is so apparent right now that it would be impossible to experience good without having bad things as well. Maybe this is an oversimplification, but it makes a ton of sense to me at the moment.
Adieu for now.