So I am not encouraging this, but at the moment I am sitting in my Engish 2 class. Yes I am completely bored out of my mind, but hey at least this class isn't extremely hard. My teacher is a walrus (well that is what my borther calls him), his real name is, well I will keep that a secret incass he finds this blog. Anyways, he talks in that mono tone that every student dreads, wears really weird cloths (for example at the moment he is wearing a purple sweater with a dark blue button up collar shirt). His hand writing is almost undestinguishable, which means reading his comments on our essays is near impossible. Oh have I told you yet that his major was in Celtic Lore, I know right, who the heck majors in that? The one thing that really annoys me is that he always talks through things really slow. At the moment he is telling us about intext quotations and he has been doing this for the past twenty minutes. Yea well I have learned a few things, like making sure you put quotation marks around the qoute, (let me just say that he had to give us a demonstration for this). Woah, the first letter in the quote is capitalized, who would have known!
Figures, he managed to find the only article in the whole book that talks about Celtic history. He always does that, its like he has a super power to find them. Wait hold on I need to pay attention............. Okay, he just got off of the topic of ellipsis (which he had to write down both the plural and singular versions of the word), and is now talking about Syntax. Oh great, he is asking us to define it.......... Thats kind of him, he gave us the deffinition after a guy defined 'sin tax.' Another definition! Okay, trivia question, what does context mean, any guesses? Here is the first clue he gave us, "Con(text)." Okay I give up, what is it? "The text surrounding a selected area." Ugh, I was that close to guessing something like that, well atleast now I know what it is (that was completely sarcastic). Great, three points to explain what context means. "Taking something out of context means that you miss interpret what the speaker was really trying to say," (why thanks oh teacher, I had no clue what it meant!). "Okay I think that is probably enough here. Wait, one more thing-" (really, I get it already, you don't need to continue!). Oh great, he has an exercise on it, sounds wonderful. Groups of five, really I don't think that it is that hard. Well I better go, hope you enjoyed my exsperience of todays english class. Tune back later for another totally boring class.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A tale of two really (un-normal) dreams.
Okay, well just the other night I experienced what has got to be the weirdest night of rest ever. Firstly it came in two different dreams, and each one completely different from each other and yet still weirder than any dream I have ever had.
So for my first dream, I was in my history class. My teacher was talking about when gravity was first recognized. To demonstrate that gravity always worked he dropped a pen onto the table. (This is where it gets weird) The pen fell half of the way down and stopped in mid air. We all looked shocked at what had just happened, as well as our teacher. He waved his hand back and forth above the pen only to find that there was no string. "Well, I wasn't expecting that!" My teacher said still completely shocked. I forget what else he said but finally he came to this conclusion, "Well, the only explanation to this is that we are all dreaming." (I am not kidding, this is literally what happened) He continues on to say, "So if we are all dreaming, then there is really no reason to continue class, so should I just let you all go?" We all thought about it, but decided that if we were dreaming, then what would we want to leave for. So we decided to just stay in the room and play musical chairs or something (I forgot this part as well). By now, my mind started to realize that since I was dreaming I could change what ever I wanted, so suddenly we all started to float up into the air as if we were in space. (Okay, this is the weirdest part) Then suddenly I started to feel myself get pulled out of the dream, as if when ever I changed something in my dreams I started to wake up. I could feel myself once again laying in my bed but I was still dreaming. However it was like I was losing reception with my dream, everything was breaking up and people started to disappear. Finally the dream was completely gone so I decided to wake up. Only when I woke up did I realize just how weird my dream was, I mean when was the last time that someone in your dream told you that you were dreaming? I never thought it was possible either, but I guess that myth is busted now.
My second dream, it wasn't as weird as my first, mainly because it involves being awake as well. Anyways I dreamed that I got a call from Frontrange (the community college I go to), they told me that school was canceled that day. I was so excited that I woke up, but I couldn't remember if it was a dream or not. At first I thought that it wasn't a dream so I turned off my alarm, then to be sure if it was a dream or not I went back to sleep (yea it sounds dumb now, but you will understand in a second). I thought for sure that if I went back to sleep and school really was canceled, then I would continue my dream of it being canceled. So I fall asleep, and surprise, I started right where I left. (In my dream) I hung up the phone, and started heading back up to my bed to get the extra sleep that I would be able to get. Before I reached my room, I suddenly remembered my thought process just before I started dreaming. I remembered that I was now dreaming once again, so I woke up. This answered my question of whether or not school was canceled, so I turned my alarm back on, and went back to bed.
Yea I know weird right! well that is what happened, and now I am actually tempted to ask my history teacher if he had that same dream. Anyways, comment and tell me any really weird dreams you have had, and not the usual "I was doing this, and then randomly this happened." Only put down really weird dreams like the ones I just told you about.
I feel another cool book plot coming along, lol.
So for my first dream, I was in my history class. My teacher was talking about when gravity was first recognized. To demonstrate that gravity always worked he dropped a pen onto the table. (This is where it gets weird) The pen fell half of the way down and stopped in mid air. We all looked shocked at what had just happened, as well as our teacher. He waved his hand back and forth above the pen only to find that there was no string. "Well, I wasn't expecting that!" My teacher said still completely shocked. I forget what else he said but finally he came to this conclusion, "Well, the only explanation to this is that we are all dreaming." (I am not kidding, this is literally what happened) He continues on to say, "So if we are all dreaming, then there is really no reason to continue class, so should I just let you all go?" We all thought about it, but decided that if we were dreaming, then what would we want to leave for. So we decided to just stay in the room and play musical chairs or something (I forgot this part as well). By now, my mind started to realize that since I was dreaming I could change what ever I wanted, so suddenly we all started to float up into the air as if we were in space. (Okay, this is the weirdest part) Then suddenly I started to feel myself get pulled out of the dream, as if when ever I changed something in my dreams I started to wake up. I could feel myself once again laying in my bed but I was still dreaming. However it was like I was losing reception with my dream, everything was breaking up and people started to disappear. Finally the dream was completely gone so I decided to wake up. Only when I woke up did I realize just how weird my dream was, I mean when was the last time that someone in your dream told you that you were dreaming? I never thought it was possible either, but I guess that myth is busted now.
My second dream, it wasn't as weird as my first, mainly because it involves being awake as well. Anyways I dreamed that I got a call from Frontrange (the community college I go to), they told me that school was canceled that day. I was so excited that I woke up, but I couldn't remember if it was a dream or not. At first I thought that it wasn't a dream so I turned off my alarm, then to be sure if it was a dream or not I went back to sleep (yea it sounds dumb now, but you will understand in a second). I thought for sure that if I went back to sleep and school really was canceled, then I would continue my dream of it being canceled. So I fall asleep, and surprise, I started right where I left. (In my dream) I hung up the phone, and started heading back up to my bed to get the extra sleep that I would be able to get. Before I reached my room, I suddenly remembered my thought process just before I started dreaming. I remembered that I was now dreaming once again, so I woke up. This answered my question of whether or not school was canceled, so I turned my alarm back on, and went back to bed.
Yea I know weird right! well that is what happened, and now I am actually tempted to ask my history teacher if he had that same dream. Anyways, comment and tell me any really weird dreams you have had, and not the usual "I was doing this, and then randomly this happened." Only put down really weird dreams like the ones I just told you about.
I feel another cool book plot coming along, lol.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Nature, how normal does that sound?
So we have all seen the sci-fi movies (or books) where there are those crazy natural disasters. For example rocks falling from the sky, the earth splitting open to form huge chasms, or acidic rain that burns your skin if it touches you. Well now just think about all of the things we have now, think hard, because we essentially have all of these things in our world. Yea I know we don't have acid rain, but we did. You might be thinking, "Yea, but Philip, we don't have rocks that fall from the sky." Well, what about hail?
There are so many things that happen in our world that just happen often enough that we don't think of them as weird anymore. Okay, so back to rain, one of the simplest types of weather right (well of course besides the usual sunny and cloudy days). Sometimes clouds can dump up to three inches of water, now think about just how much that all weighed. Think, that was all just floating up in the sky! Thousands of tons of water just floating above our heads and we call this normal. Just imagine explaining this to someone who has never heard of, or seen clouds. Good luck on explaining hail and it just gets weirder from there.
Wind, simple enough right? Well if you get strong enough cross winds, then a Tornado would be the result. Okay if you are by a window, look out side at your neighbors house. If you live in Kansas and have no neighbors, well then you could probably just look out side and see an actual tornado. Anyway, think of how something as gentle as wind can actually have the power to rip that house right off of its foundations.
Earthquakes, if you think about this, does it not sound like something straight out of a science fiction novel. I can picture it right now: "The solid earth beneath his feet started shaking. There was no where safe, even the old reliable ground was no longer trustworthy."
Okay enough with the natural disasters, but everywhere you look there is something crazy going on. So crazy in fact that I think calling it normal (Which to me labels something as 'Boring!') is incredibly misleading. A pine tree for example, it starts off with the pine cone. When the cone releases its seeds, the seeds themselves are smaller than a penny, then give it several years and BAM a forty foot tall tree! Yea, sure its normal, but does it deserve that title? Lets see scientists put some piece of equipment in the ground and in twenty years there stands a nice ol' machine that gets energy from the sun and feeds off of the nutrients in the ground. Then on top of that, lets watch it create more seeds so that it can create more machines just like it.
Now lets not forget all of the crazy animals we have, like fish who breath in the extra oxygen in the water, or birds who have hollow bones and a perfect wing shape that enable flight. What about amphibians who start off the first part of their lives basically as fish, then they grow arms, legs and all the other things you see that frogs possess. Eyes, I am not even going to begin to explain how they work, mainly because I myself don't fully understand them, then there is the oxygenating of our blood which is actually what keeps us alive. Or if you want to get even more narrow, the individual cell. Just think of all the processes your body is doing right now as you just read this. If you ate just a little bit ago, then your stomach and intestines are digesting your food to run all of your bodily functions. Your lungs are constantly expanding and collapsing to allow air flow, your heart is pumping the oxygenated blood. Thousands of veins and arteries carry your blood to and from the muscles that need the energy and oxygen. Each and every single one of the cells in your body is burning calories so that they can do their jobs, and or form new cells. Then there is your brain, the thing that gives you the ability to think, process, see, feel, taste, move, learn, create, draw and remember. Now tell me, how is it possible for all of this to happen by chance?? These are the things that we call normal, so if normal things are as complicated as these things I have mentioned, then just imagine what isn't normal!
There are so many things that happen in our world that just happen often enough that we don't think of them as weird anymore. Okay, so back to rain, one of the simplest types of weather right (well of course besides the usual sunny and cloudy days). Sometimes clouds can dump up to three inches of water, now think about just how much that all weighed. Think, that was all just floating up in the sky! Thousands of tons of water just floating above our heads and we call this normal. Just imagine explaining this to someone who has never heard of, or seen clouds. Good luck on explaining hail and it just gets weirder from there.
Wind, simple enough right? Well if you get strong enough cross winds, then a Tornado would be the result. Okay if you are by a window, look out side at your neighbors house. If you live in Kansas and have no neighbors, well then you could probably just look out side and see an actual tornado. Anyway, think of how something as gentle as wind can actually have the power to rip that house right off of its foundations.
Earthquakes, if you think about this, does it not sound like something straight out of a science fiction novel. I can picture it right now: "The solid earth beneath his feet started shaking. There was no where safe, even the old reliable ground was no longer trustworthy."
Okay enough with the natural disasters, but everywhere you look there is something crazy going on. So crazy in fact that I think calling it normal (Which to me labels something as 'Boring!') is incredibly misleading. A pine tree for example, it starts off with the pine cone. When the cone releases its seeds, the seeds themselves are smaller than a penny, then give it several years and BAM a forty foot tall tree! Yea, sure its normal, but does it deserve that title? Lets see scientists put some piece of equipment in the ground and in twenty years there stands a nice ol' machine that gets energy from the sun and feeds off of the nutrients in the ground. Then on top of that, lets watch it create more seeds so that it can create more machines just like it.
Now lets not forget all of the crazy animals we have, like fish who breath in the extra oxygen in the water, or birds who have hollow bones and a perfect wing shape that enable flight. What about amphibians who start off the first part of their lives basically as fish, then they grow arms, legs and all the other things you see that frogs possess. Eyes, I am not even going to begin to explain how they work, mainly because I myself don't fully understand them, then there is the oxygenating of our blood which is actually what keeps us alive. Or if you want to get even more narrow, the individual cell. Just think of all the processes your body is doing right now as you just read this. If you ate just a little bit ago, then your stomach and intestines are digesting your food to run all of your bodily functions. Your lungs are constantly expanding and collapsing to allow air flow, your heart is pumping the oxygenated blood. Thousands of veins and arteries carry your blood to and from the muscles that need the energy and oxygen. Each and every single one of the cells in your body is burning calories so that they can do their jobs, and or form new cells. Then there is your brain, the thing that gives you the ability to think, process, see, feel, taste, move, learn, create, draw and remember. Now tell me, how is it possible for all of this to happen by chance?? These are the things that we call normal, so if normal things are as complicated as these things I have mentioned, then just imagine what isn't normal!
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