Last weekday, right in the middle of busy

It's been decent since the last post. After a great concert hanging out with Joe yesterday (early 20th century french minimalistic classical orchestra stuff, La Mer by DeBussey is great), I went to Steak and Shake with Brock, where we spent over 2 hours eating and attempting physics. Then Halo was played till 2:30 (I turned it on for three quick games. Bad decision.) We carpooled the next day because neither had our parking passes. For some odd reason, I wrote a french paper in a car very quickly. Showed up on time (yay!) and had fun there, did french homework in matrix class (it moves slowly, no-one wants to answer the questions so I do just so I don't kill myself from boredom). Did more french over lunch hour, then physics class. Modern physics time! But no, it was just Snells law. (good quote from Espo: "Since we can't name everything after Newton..."). I then made my way up to Lebnin (that is how you correctly slaughter the pronunciation of "Lebanon" in Ohio). I saw The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy with Felicia.

It was a decent movie, but having most of the book memorised really made parts of it bad. For example: the singing. Never again will you put a 50's musical style song in a sci fi satire. There wasn't any love in the book, and Arthur was a complete fool the whole time, he never became cool and I loved it. Alan Rickman is who I would cast as Marvin if I could, but the general lack of english accents I found disconcerting. My Ideal cast?

Arthur: whoever stars in My Hero (bbc show about a superman type) or Rowan Atkinson
Ford: a clone of the guy who played the BBC Ford, or John Stewart
Trillian: someone who is actually english
Zaphod: Johnny Depp
Marvin: Alan Rickman
Slartibartfast: John Cleese with long hair
fit Patrick Stewart in there somewhere, he is too cool to be left out. Maybe he could be a computor like deep thought or something.

Tomorrow is Springboro's prom. Thanks for the tie Joe, it is great. I have to leave my house at 2:30 or so, prom starts at 8, and I get back around noon sunday. I am going to be wiped out. So much for homework. Hope everyone is having fun!

today of all days

I’m so tired, I haven’t slept a wink,
I’m so tired, my mind is on the blink.
I wonder should I get up and fix myself a drink.
No, no, no.
I’m so tired I don’t know what to do.
I’m so tired my mind is set on you.
I wonder should I call you but I know what you’d do.
You’d say I’m putting you on.
But it’s no joke, it’s doing me harm.
You know I can’t sleep, I can’t stop my brain
You know it’s three weeks, I’m going insane.
You know I’d give you everything I’ve got
For a little peace of mind.
I’m so tired, I’m feeling so upset
Although I’m so tired I’ll have another cigarette
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh.
He was such a stupid git.

Need to play, then sleep.

I wish I had more self control, I want to be able to stay focused on the task at hand and not get distracted by petty annoyances. While I am in the realm of the impossible, I also want an extra-dimentional island where I can slip away to and not lose any time in this reality.

While I am on a Beatles trip, I will tell you how I get by in these busy busy busy times.

What would you do if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me.
Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song,
And I’ll try not to sing out of key.
I get by with a little help from my friends,
I get high with a little help from my friends,
I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.
What do I do when my love is away.
(Does it worry you to be alone)
How do I feel by the end of the day
(Are you sad because you’re on your own)
No I get by with a little help from my friends,
I get high with a little help from my friends,
Oh, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.
Do you need anybody,
I need somebody to love.
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love.
Would you believe in love at first sight,
Yes I’m certain that it happens all the time.
What do you see hen you turn out the light,
I can’t tell you, but I know it’s mine.
Oh I get by with alittle help from my friends.
I get high with a little help from my friends,
Oh I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.
Do you need anybody,
I just need somebody to love,
Could it be anybody,
I want somebody to love.
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mm I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends,
Oh I get high with a little help from my friends,
Yes I get by with a little help from my friends.

My freinds are amazing. Whenever I need advice I trust, I have my best friends to call on and they are there. When I need a quick morale boost, there is always someone online or a phone call away. Let me tell you all that I appriciate you and I am going to miss you all so much next year. My friends were the main reason in the argument for staying at UC. Then they talked me out of it. Definitely come and visit and I look forward to short summer and long winter breaks. I am not quite sure why you guys stick up with me so much because, like Lennon,

I’m a loser, I’m a loser,
And I’m not what I appear to be.
Of all the love I have won or have lost,
There is one love I should never have crossed.
She was a girl in a million my friend,
I should have known she would win in the end.
I’m a loser, and I lost someone who’s near to me,
I’m a loser, and I’m not what I appear to be.
Although I laugh and I act like a clown,
Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown,
My tears are falling like rain from the sky,
Is it for her or myself that I cry.
I’m a loser, and I lost someone who’s near to me,
I’m a loser, and I’m not what I appear to be.
What I have done to deserve such a fate,
I realize I have left it too late.
And so it’s true pride comes before a fall,
I’m telling you so that you won’t lose all.
I’m a loser, and I lost someone who’s near to me,
I’m a loser, and I’m not what I appear to be.

One more quote, Fighter from 8-bit Theater.

Blarg, I am dead

Much Ado about

Since the last post, I had an emergancy college visit, then decided to go to that college instead of UC, and am very happy with my decision. The college is Hope(www.hope.edu), a small Christian college in Holland Mich. I really love it, and am going to have a wonderful few years there. They even have a particle accelerator, which is quite awsome.
I am getting prepped for prom season, and attempting to wrap up some loose ends with people at the same time. I am overcommitted socially and homeworkally, and am having the MOST difficult time concentrating on what I am doing, which might be explained by the fact that it is now... 2:30 AM. I am a night person, but science and all but one language shut down after 1.

I tried and failed to drop French, and am still trying to catch up from that week I missed while trying to drop. At least my prof is absolutely awsome.

Today was school, piano lesson, homework. Tomorrow, school and work, Thurs, homework, hanging out with freinds and a concert, Friday, school work and seeing a bad movie with an old freind, Saturday homework and a prom, Sunday, still the prom and sleep, hopefully I have no homework left. This is a bit overwhelming.

So, I will dream tonight that I am French Kissin' life square in the mouth, sailing out on the sea.
Don't really know what day it is
Been rocking nine days in a row
All I know is it's hurricane season
And any minute she's gonna blow

I need a shave and I need some rest
I know some people are worried about me
But I'm french kissing life square in the mouth
Sailing out on the sea

Went through customs and immigration
Still this feels like home
I'm floating 'round through Gorda Sound
With a cooler and a bong

Maybe I could've been a pirate
Maybe in my next life that's what I'll be
French kissing life square in the mouth
Sailing out on the sea

Tonight I don't need to feel famous
Out here all I feel is free

French kissing life square in the mouth
Sailing out on the sea
Maybe I could've been a pirate
Maybe in my next life that's what I'll be
French kissing life square in the mouth
Sailing out on the sea

Thanks Kenny.

Long Break Short...

It has been a while since my last post.

I think I have found direction for this blog. This one shall be my personal blog, where I write my happenings, thoughts, and feelings down.

I think I will drop french tomorrow. I am not getting any benefits out of it, (minor too far off, certificate too far off, major not going to happen), I have very little opportunity to think in french or practice speaking and grammar except in class, and I get my worst grades in it. All in all, a bad class to be taking.

However, I like french. I like being able to understand and communicate in a different language. It also helps my english skills. I would like to study abroad some day, perhaps do some research in France or something. At least be able to say I can speak another language sufficiently well on a resume. Also, I want french to be the starting block. I want to learn other languages after this.

So, in the spirit of all of this, I am going to ask the professor if I can sit in on the class. I can't audit as a Post Secondary kid, but I think she likes me, so she may let me sit in the class. This way I can come back and take it next year if I want to.

Other than that, Nick and I are swamped with problems of the same kind, Brock and I are swamped with problems of the same kind, and Halo maps come out tomorrow.

Goodnight.
Derek

Island Boy

I have been listening to Kenny Chesney's new album, Be As You Are, and it has made me dream of the beach quite a lot lately.

My dream is to have a party on a carribian beach. I would wear my swim suit, a cowboy hat, a large t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, and shades. Coolers full of good drinks and food to share with all of the people I enjoy being around. We all have a great time playing in the surf, volleyball, and just living without cares. Once the sun goes down, start a huge bonfire and pull out guitars, steel drums, and percussion and play into the night. After I get tired, (no clocks so we don't know what time it actually is) I take my guitar and a girl (who the girl is doesn't really matter) away to a hammock where we can stare at the stars and I can play. She would fall asleep right next to me like this, and then so would I, guitar still in hand. We would wake up to watch the sun rise, then go back to sleep because we are going to repeat the same thing tomorrow night.

However, this will never happen for one simple reason:

Mosquitos.

Therefore, my dream is shattered, and I shall have to alter it to the pacific, where the water is ten degrees too cold and the waves are five feet bigger. I am crushed.

Reasons to Read this Blog

I don't think I ever posted how well I actually did last quarter in physics. I got a 193/200 on the final, pushed me to an A in the class. I got an A- in french (better than I thought I would do) and a B+ in physics lab. I was disappointed in the last one, I thought I had an A for sure, but its only a 1 credit hour so it doesn't hurt too much.

coming up in april: a really awsome event at OSU for all who are avaliable/interested. http://www.veritas.org/OSU/index.htm
Reasons to Believe (www.reasons.org) is giving a forum that I very much wish to attend with some freinds. It is an organization run by a PhD in astrophysics who melds science and Christianity together, and the results are amazing. It's not one of those quacks who go around saying how the world was created in six days and if you believe otherwise you are going to hell, its a very scientific endevour and he is amazing with math. I did a speech for a class last year using material from him, and the probability of the Earth existing is quite impressive (it's more likely for you to choose a single proton OR electron at the big bang and randomly pick it today [something like 1/10^76] than for the earth to exist with the necassary criteria for life [1/10^79]). VERY cool stuff, from a scientific and religious standpoint. I would encourage everyone to go, with me if you know me.

Well, I am hungry and physics starts in 25. One last note, I recently started another blog in which I post essays and short stories I have written. It's over at writingphysicist.blogspot.com and it has a humerous short story and an essay in progress about the future state of science.

God Bless,
Duncan

Cincinnatus

I got Cincinnatus back. The second highest, 7,500 a year. Tuition is 8,300 a year, so I almost have that paid for. Room and board adds up to MORE than tuition. THAT SUCKS.


Right now I am thinking that an apartment is probably the best way to go. I know a few people who could be cool roommates, so I shall have to assess that situation. Hopefully I will end up with cool people who don't annoy the livng crap out of me, and hopefully one will be in most of my classes.