Thursday, March 25, 2004

Some interesting specimens.

Current Mood: Worn out and .. just.. tired. Listening To: Escaflowne Time: 10:13 PM I feel like I'm tired all the time now. I don't get it. Maybe I'm just not used to getting more sleep, heh. Maybe I've just never noticed it before. Maybe it's because my sleeping patterns are sort of irregular. I don't know. My astronomy professor was gone today, so instead we had Dr. Prosper. And Dr. Prosper is the shizzle. He's this little black British guy and he's incredibly funny. We discussed the evolution of stars today, focusing on our sun, and Betelgeuse, which is much bigger than our sun. Our sun has enough energy to run for roughly 10 billion years, and it's about at its half way point right now. Eventually it will start heating up and growing, and will engulf Mercury and Venus, and possibly Earth. Either way, we're screwed, cause we'll just be too close (in the sun's atmosphere, probably) and gravity will cause us to spiral in even further. We'd basically disintegrate. Betelgeuse, on the other hand, is already winding down. Right now, it's a red giant, which is one of the last stages. After this, it'll just blow up. A supernova explosion with the force of 100 billion stars behind it. Prosper said that scientist believe this will happen in the next 100 thousand years or so, at any time - it could have already happened, for that matter. And when it does, there will be a shock wave, more than likely, and then we'll all die. According to him, "It's not going to be a good day." I think there's something about British accents, too, that just calls for your attention. I don't quite understand the allure, but it's there, nonetheless. You just kind of drink in every word they say. Needless to say, I was rapt with attention the entire period. I don't know how I'm going to go back to poor Lind after having such fun today in class with Prosper. Curse the fates, I suppose. Prosper was helping around the lab tonight, as well, and he usually doesn't. I think I've seen him out there once before, maybe. Usually there's this other Greek guy who's sort of in charge of the Labs, but he was MIA. George, my TA, told us that his little boy just died in a carcrash, and today was the first day of the funeral. That's the second or third death I've heard about this month, and I suppose that hasn't been helping my general mood all that much, either. I haven't really known any of these people - the closest was the little boy, because I've actually seen him. He had been around his father a few times, and the kid was adorable. Things like that aren't supposed to happen. So I'm sad, and tired, and I don't know how well I did on my history test today. Saturday is my best friend's birthday, and I won't be able to make it home to celebrate. That's the second time that's happened. Nothing really seems to be going the way I want it to lately, which can be a little disheartening sometimes, as I'm sure you know. At least tomorrow's Friday, though. Just get rid of this whole week, heh. I'm hoping that Friday will be better, though. Having a girl's movie night sort of thing at Annie's. Should be good and fun and just what I need. Hopefully. Sunday there might be a picnic, and where there's a picnic, there will be frisbee. Here's hoping everything goes well. (Hope, hope, hope.)

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