The title is something that my coworkers will understand. Inside joke shared at work, and I jokingly told them I would put it as the title of today's post. I couldn't think of anything, so I decided why not and did it anyways.
I went to school today. Surprise. After school, I went to work. Surprise. After work, I went to the library. Surprise. My days are highly repetitive and would probably be boring if they weren't so critical to my later success. Differential equations should be renamed to indifferent equations, because they don't care if you know how to solve them. They'll just be as difficult as they want and there isn't much a computer program can do to solve them. I worked on a couple of problems for 2+ hours today. I then gave up and moved on to the following problems, which I did fairly quickly because they were pretty straight forward and made sense based on what we learned in class. Well, what I would've learned in class if I'd gone on Friday. I totally forgot I had switched times and didn't go at all. Add that to the blunder list this week.
I used to think when I was small that when you grow up you get a whole lot more mature, you get smarter, married, and get a lot of money. You also get good at basketball and you are free to do what you want. I was also convinced that you were basically grown up at 18 years old. Guess what? Only one of those is true. Can you guess which one? Oh, sorry. Corporate just called. There was an error in the script; none of those are true. Sorry, fellas. You're free to do what you want... outside of the hours from 9-6 on weekdays. You're not very good at basketball, unless you are, in which case none of these apply to you and you should go back to practice, Allen Iverson. You don't get a lot of money, you just get good at convincing other people to give you what you need. You don't get married unless you're crazy, and the proportionality of crazy people to normal people at this school is high. You might be a bit smarter than when you were 10, but all that gets you is more work to do because now you can handle it. And last but not least, you don't mature even a little bit. Your priorities just change. Today I dealt with someone who I will not name that only seemed to be concerned with their own interests, no matter how small or petty, at the cost of someone else's happiness. When I brought this up, the topic was changed to how things weren't fair for them. Lame, I know. I've been there, kid. If you're reading this in the future, I tried my best to help you out. I know how you feel (even if you don't) cause I had to deal with the same stuff countless times. It sucks. But it is what it is. Keep doing what you're doing and don't let other people's dumb choices get in your way of doing what you love. Okay, enough of that.
Have you ever seen that old movie I Love Lucy? Yeah, me either. I was just reminded of the title because I'm going to hang out with Lucy and Sophie this weekend after my mission physical doctor's appointment. Then we're going to the basketball game on the 10th. Funny how your mom can make friends for you even before you were born. I met Sophie when I was 3 months old. I met Lucy just before Christmas. My mother keeps relaying me information that I have no way to verify the accuracy of, so I will not repeat it here. I will let you, dear reader, speculate on what that could possibly mean. I probably should start reading the Iliad now. I think I'm 100 something pages behind because I'm just lazy and don't want to read.
I can't yet. I was sitting in church yesterday when I decided to test something that has been on my mind for a bit, and I think I'm onto something. A piece of thread came off of my pants, which normally is not a noteworthy event that ends up being written in a blog. But, I am writing it here just in case someone needs to know this story eventually, or if my ideas have any significance in history. This string was particularly long, probably around 8 inches or so. I had done this on smaller strings, so I was curious what would happen with a larger string. If you spin the string between your fingers, it will create nodes and antinodes along the string. The speed at which you spin it determines how many there are. And there isn't a continuum of them either. They also occur at fixed values, just like Planck's quantization of the atom. Tying (slapstick comedy right there) this idea into string theory, would the elementary particles just be specific spin values of a string? Which would then represent itself as a different frequency? Is it just strings that do this? Or does everything do this, we just can't see it yet? Weird stuff, I know. I don't know how closed strings would fit into this, but I'm working on it.
Anyways, I guess I'll see you tomorrow. I'm trying really hard to make this a regular thing from now until I don't know when. Goodnight, loyal readers.
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