So I'm having sweet peas for dinner. Big bowl of sweet peas. I was just not going to have dinner because I randomly had an onion bagel around 6, but it was 8:30 and I was hungry and I have all these random cans of sweet peas and when am I ever going to eat them amirite?
Haha, I joined this facebook group called, "8th Graders need to back off 9th grade guys especially other people's BF's" haha. Cause man, those hoochie-mama 8th graders totally need to step off. The group description says, "This is a serious issue."

Some college guy had this to say:

"Eighth grade? More like 'geighth' grade, amirite?"
and everyone was like, "yah, lol, usorite!"

Tomorrow the Mercury Messenger spacecraft begins its second flyby of the planet Venus along its winding path towards Mercury. You always have to go a really windy way to Mercury because it's one of the most difficult planets to go into orbit around. This is because it's so close to the Sun... since gravity is speeding you up constantly as you shoot toward the sun, by the time you get to Mercury you are going seriously fast. Complicating things is the fact that Mercury itself is so small and it doesn't have a lot of gravity to help stop you. It's really hard not to just shoot right past Mercury and go straight into the fiery inferno. In fact, that's all we've pretty much done so far when it comes to Mercury. Because of this, we've only actually seen half the planet so far. We have no idea what the other half looks like (only the barest of shadows seen by Earth-bound telescopes!) So in a couple of months, we'll have another look at Mercury.
This flyby of Venus is special because unlike the last time this same spacecraft flew by Venus, this time we'll be turning all the instruments on, just to test them out for the first Mercury encounter (we also have to fly by Mercury several times to slow ourselves down before we enter orbit). Unfortunately, since the instruments on Messenger are primed for looking at the small, rocky body of Mercury (aka it sees mostly in the visible), all we'll be able to see of Venus are its thick, 70km high-altitude hazes. BORING! Well, not for atmospheric scientists. But we aren't atmospheric scientists, are we? There may still be a few small wavelength windows where we might get to see something of the surface, but not much. Today they had a press conference in preparation for the launch. My advisor wanted somebody to go watch it because he's on the mission so he should watch it but it's really boring. He came in and asked us innocently if anyone was planning to go watch. Nobody moved. I didn't even take of my headphones. Caleb finally got up because he was seriously bored doing what he was doing and he'd been trying to get out of it all day.

"Oh, come on, guys! Look at you!" said my advisor. "Our mission is FLYING past another PLANET tomorrow!!!"

"And I'll go and watch it," I said, "TOMORROW!"

He just laughed and ducked his head out of the lab. Caleb came back less than five minutes later. "I couldn't stay," he said, "I told Peter (the guy who pipes in the NASA tv), I told him I had to leave."

But it's pretty cool we're flying past another planet tomorrow, huhn? If you have NASA tv (which you obviously do) or maybe it'll be on the internet, you should tune in.

In the spirit of this exciting event, here is a picture of the module that took the astronaut that I MET the Sunday before last to the MOON:



And here's when I burned my finger on the hot fudge:


Side view:


And a tree that looks like a heart!!!

lol thats a nice blister XD so big >.< dont pop it ^^
lol and that facebook group. LOL thats funny
that is not a serious issue XD especially to those who could care less who goes out w/ who when people are dying :D
» crz4manga on 2007-06-04 10:29:58

I've burnt my finger before but never had a blister.Yeah, don't pop it.
» Southern on 2007-06-05 12:39:34

Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't get what "geighth" is supposed to mean. Gay eighth? Something else that requires more background knowledge? :S
» randomjunk on 2007-06-05 01:23:32

that's kinda what my finger looked like when I cut a chunk out of it, only it was a hole, not a blister. It was about that same size, though.
that's a cute/interesting tree
» LostSoul13 on 2007-06-05 04:11:57

hahaha, funny story actually. I was cutting dough with a serrated knife and I looked up for a second. In went the knife and since I didn't realize it right away, I pulled the knife back out in the same cut. luckily I noticed before it started bleeding and moved so that the dough wouldn't get ruined. It was annoying cuz I had to wear a bandaid for like two weeks {I hate bandaids} now its just a U-shaped scar
» LostSoul13 on 2007-06-05 02:32:53

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