For the past week or so I've spent most of my time stuck at home trying to write in depth answers for the various questions that have been thrown at me. Although I have spent a bit of time with friends, for the most part I've missed out my social life this break and will probably continue to do so until the day after Christmas. Cutting it this close to the January deadline is making me nervous. Mom works all day and when she comes home before 7 she is angry about something. The people I usually talk to online are either on break or otherwise unavailable.

So there's that. The spelling is intentional.

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I'm aware that this is way over-edited. I'm a n00b please excuse me.

I'm also aware that very few people here care about me doing church stuff in another country. That's OK. I just ask that you donate even a couple of dollars with some sort of task, since that will help me garner more support from others. Unless you vehemently dislike the idea of supporting missions, I think it could be worth your while. Plus you'd be doing me a huge favor. Click here to see my page.

I'm pretty excited about going to Paris. It sort of jumped on my radar from nowhere so I'm still getting used to the idea. But the more I think about it, the more I like it.

Things with homegirl are going really well. We had a great Valentine's Day, and I was able to surprise her on our one-month. It's funny, I always used to feel like dating would be a hassle because I'm not really into all these special days and mushy stuff like that, but now that I'm actually in that hypothetical relationship, it's a lot of fun. I just get a kick out of making her feel special. I did get a little stressed out during the week before Valentine's Day (our one-month was on Tuesday, which was also when I was trying to visit my brother five hours away for his 21st birthday...and I needed to be back Wednesday evening. And I wanted to make a gift for Tuesday plus one for Valentine's day! So much...) One of my favorite parts has been writing goofy poems in the cards I make for her. My dad used to do that for my mom; I've seen a few of the cards he gave her, and they're great. Trying to emulate him in that.

"Roses are red,
violets are blue.
This doesn't rhyme,
but I want to hold your hand."

I made her an origami lily. She doesn't like real flowers. I'm planning on giving her a new one every month for our first year, so eventually she'll have a bouquet. I made a haiku to go with it:

"Lily with no scent
folded paper with intent
to encourage you

If it doesn't please
it folds flat to store away
for your convenience"

heehee

As you can see, I'm having a blast.

Please donate a little! It'll be fun!

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Katie, you should know what when I got home I only ate a peanut butter sandwich and a glass of V8 Fusion. To balance it out.

BAM!

Today I went to Katie's house after school. At first we just messed around with her dogs and made some poison kool-aid. Then her mom came home, so we went down to the park.

The swing hanging over the creek attracted my attention again, so she watched me swing a few times. Then I realized that one could climb into the tree and jump into the arc from there. This made us both nervous, and when I did it I almost lost my grip and fell in anyway. So it wasn't as fun as I'd planned.

The highlight of MY day was probably the following. I had some sort of dust on my right shoulder that Katie kept trying to brush off, and I wasn't letting her. I was trying to use the rest of my body as a shield, and was doing pretty well. Sometimes, I would pretend to let my guard down and see how she tried to surprise me. She's too slow. :D Anyway, one of those times she was behind me and decided she'd make an ambush lunge. I knew it was coming. I went COMPLETELY ninja, bent down, and turned to the left. Then I stepped forward, and kept turning left. I WOULD have come up behind her, if she hadn't somehow tripped on me and fallen right into the grass. Face down. She flipped over and just started laughing. She'll never live it down.

"romanticocabrita: You do.
romanticocabrita: It's nice.
wiseguysupreme4: But I didn't!
romanticocabrita: You doooo!
wiseguysupreme4: Fine. What are you gonna do about it?
wiseguysupreme4: Huh? huh?
romanticocabrita: I'm gonna...lunge at you!
wiseguysupreme4: And then what? Get off the ground?
romanticocabrita: ...
romanticocabrita: -hate-
wiseguysupreme4: Oh, you laughed.
romanticocabrita: -hatehatehate-"

Most of the play ground equipment made me nauseous, so we hung out in a little old thing for about 30 minutes (we'd already been outside for at least an hour)

Then at almost 8 we went inside and she cooked pirogies with tons of butter. They were mostly cold or unevenly heated, but the last two were left in the pan and therefore much better. They were all super greasy, and I suspect that the death-green kool-aid didn't help my unhealthy predicament.

Then I had to drive home, which was fun because it was just turning dark. I love it!

Refreshing day. Starting homework at nearly 11. whoo!

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...is a very, very interesting subject. I'm reading this book, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. So far, I haven't gotten past a kind of "Physics warm-up". He's explaining Einstein's theories of relativity, and that in itself is enough to keep me completely entertained. My nerd status has gone up since I started telling the people that were walking faster than me that they're aging slower than I am.

I now understand how space and time can be warped, even though a few bits are foggy. That's to be expected for most humans, seeing as how "spacetime" is 4-dimentional, and it's kind of hard to think in four dimentions. Hell, it's hard to think in three dementions for some people.

If the three dimentions we are used to are space (left-right, up-down, and forward-back are good examples,) and you consider time to be another dimention that we move in one direction in a (almost) constant speed, then you have a 4-dimentional mesh, and it's called space time. Now, here's the part I like. Photons (light particles) move at a constant speed. Some 670 million miles per hours or so. On the side, you might be interested in the fact that even if you could run away from light at a huge speed, if you turned around it would still be coming at you at the light speed. This might not seem weird at first, but consider this. If someone throws a baseball at you at 12 mph, and you're running away at 7mph, then the ball travels (compared to you) at (12-7=5)mph. However, this trick doesn't work on light. It comes at everything, moving or stationary, at the same speed. I don't see how this is possible, but there you go.

Back to the main topic. Everyone knows that in a square that's 10 miles by 10 miles, that a car moving at 20 mph would go from one edge to the opposite in 30 minutes. However, if the car's path is slanted, than it would take a while longer. This is because the car's motion is split between 2 different dimentions. Einstein realized this, and so he had an idea: If time is just another dimention, than that means our motion is being split between all three of our spacial dimentions, and the rest is devoted to moving through time. That's an amazing concept.

It means that the faster you move, the slower you age. Or, more accurate, the slower you move through time. (You might think that moving fast would make you live longer, but the catch is that you'd experience time slower too. So, not only do you only get to actually live the same amount of time, but you've wasted a ton of energy and outlived all your friends and family.)

Can anyone guess what all matter's overall speed through spacetime is? Some 670 million miles per hour, or so. What else does that mean? That photons from the beggining of the world haven't aged a bit. Also, if you could hit light speed, (it's impossible,) you'd be stuck. You can't do anything if you don't experience time, and the only way to stop would be to run into something pretty massive (by accident). Surely that'd kill you, if you weren't already dead from accelerating to light speed. The upside: you're traveling at light speed anyway, through time, minus the motion you're making.

If you're confused, interested, or in a questioning mood, go get the book. Great read, funny author. They're the best.

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