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| What do you do? Life happens. The other night I went out with some friends, and ended up seeing some random people I didn't see for a long time. That was random.
Since I can't think of anything interesting to say, I will write about: Aliens.
Ok, this is a random subject. Alien life (biological lifeforms that did not originate on Earth) can be divided into two categories.
1. Regular old life such as animals, plants, fungus, bacteria, etc. The possibility of these existing is pretty good because the universe is a big place. The Bible doesn't say it's impossible. And science doesn't say it's impossible.
2. So called Sentient Life, or Human-like life. By human like I mean the ability to communicate with each other, the ability to drastically alter their environment, the ability to reason, etc. Ok this definition has a lot of problems with it, but you probably understand what I mean. Does it exist? My opinion is out to lunch. Maybe and maybe not. The universe is huge and God is very creative. He could have made other "people" out there somewhere.
3. However I am pretty certain of one thing: The chances that the History Channel will be the first to discover aliens are very low. There is a greater chance of a colony of mice canoeing across the Atlantic. Or some other ridiculously crazy thing. But the History Channel will NOT discover aliens. So they should stop their stupid alien shows. And while they are at it they can stop Monster Quest and the other crazy stuff that they have. Or else stop calling themselves the History Channel, seriously.
4. That is all
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| So I haven't updated this thing in, well, months. What else is new.
As for the promise in last post to update on my trip in Spain, I did.
Just not on this site. I started (and subsequently ended) a blog at http://puertorealreu.blogspot.com/
I meant to post a link.
But I didn't.
Sorry.
As for now, I'm back in school at Millersville. My toughest class is physical chemistry (pchem for short).
We have a pchem test scheduled for Friday.
My parents are planning to go to Delaware on Thursday. I was hoping to go with them.
But I guess not. Unless the test gets rescheduled.
Other than that, life goes on. I don't know what is going to happen next. I've been church-shopping. But I don't know if leaving my old church is a good idea. Even though I really want to leave. I like the people (mostly). But I don't like all the rules, though admittedly some of them make sense. Some of the others don't.
What other things have been happening that matter to you and me. Not much. I was part of a float in the New Holland parade. The Freedom Float. Basically we waved flags, played patriotic music, and handed out copies of the Constitution. It was cold. I'm not so sure about political activism, but I did it anyway. Maybe growing up in a Mennonite church has something to do with my uneasiness. Maybe it's something else. Who knows.
If you are looking for funny jokes, look no farther.
But you might have to wait awhile.
<edit> The test for pchem got rescheduled for next Wednesday. Ok Delaware.
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| About two months ago, I received an email from the Chemistry Department at Millersville. It was an application for a summer research opportunity for undergraduate students (REU) in Cadíz, Spain. So to make a long story short, here I am sitting in a small room in an apartment building on the outskirts of Puerto Real in southern Spain. It´s Thursday evening, cool, breezy and the fair is going to start at 10pm. The feria is a big deal here is Puerto Real; they shut the whole town down for several days and serve special drinks and dress up in flamingo outfits and dance. I will take pictures and post them somewhere.
So after two and a half days of orientation at Bucknell University last week we left point A and travelled to point B (Point A being Lewisburg, PA and Point B being Puerto Real, Spain). So it was bus, plane, bus, plane, and van. With much walking in between. And eating. We had American food, Spanish food, drinks, etc. It was good eating.
We got to Puerto Real on Sunday night. And found a restaraunt with a Spanish menu, Spanish waiter/bartender, and Spanish food. Luckily two girls in our group, Olyvya and Ruth, speak Spanish so they could interpret for us. We slept (or tried to), woke up, ate, walked around Puerto Real and ate some more. Then on Tuesday we were formally welcomed to the University of Cadíz by the Rector. We climbed to the top of Torre Tavira (a watchtower formerly used by merchants to watch for ships), had a most excellent meal that lasted longer than most church services, and explored the city. Spanish food is good.
Today I woke up late. My room is on the second floor. It has a window into a tiny white private courtyard. The others tried to wake me, but they couldn´t get into the apartment or the tiny courtyard. So they couldn´t pound on my bedroom door, or throw stuff at my window. My alarm clock dutifully rang, but it was promptly shut off by a lethargic, mostly unconscious individual. So after missing our first Spanish class, I finally woke up at 10:10am. At least I woke in a general sense of the word.
We were given lab coats and goggles, toured the university, and ate lunch. Then we were assigned to our labs and given glassware. I am in the same lab as Jeff, Rachel and Ashley. Jeff, Rachel and I are working with lichens from Antartica. The others are working on other projects.
So this blog will be updated as time moves on. Whether or not it is updated with any sort of regularity remains to be seen. Maybe I will even write in español.
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| Xanga is neglected. I use facebook. For what? To see what everyone is up to and to waste time. Speaking of wasting time, about a month ago I decided that I spend too much time surfing the Internet and reading the newspaper and that I should stop. I decided that for the rest of the semester I wouldn't read the newspaper (except to glance at the front page) or use the Internet except to check my email, do school-related activities like research, and business (bills, etc). Instead I (mostly) used that time for studying.
The results: it was good, I discovered that I had a lot of time to do stuff, that I didn't need to spend so much time on the Internet.
Now this semester is over, and guess what? I'm back here on this here Internet thing wasting my life. Enough is enough.
In high school, our English teacher told us to "Read, read, read". "Read everything you can get your hands on." It's good advice; it's good to know what is going on the world. However, this was before the Internet was really popular. You can read almost all the articles in a newspaper in about an hour and a half as long as you don't read the ads or the classifieds. This a managable amount of information. It is impossible to read every thing on the Internet. So you have to set limits.
Information. There's a lot of it. You can't know it all and even if you did, most of it is pretty boring anyway (or completely inaccurate).
That's my spiel for today.
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