Singing in the Rain

Miraculously, it actually rained this week. Over the course of multiple days, in fact. Aside from a mist that one could almost classify as rain a week or so ago, I hadn't seen much of any precipitation here at all, so the cold and humidity were actually quite nice.

We're almost to Fall Break at this point, which means we're in the peak midterm season. Thus far, it hasn't seemed to kill anyone…people are getting a little less sleep than usual, but not that much less. Life is periodically exciting due to interesting events cropping up everywhere, not to mention the occasional fun of having prospective students appearing at random intervals. Seriously, if you're not planning to visit, come visit us! It makes our lives fun.

Let's see…what's been going on. More illness has been spreading about campus, and I'm sad to report that I seem to have caught the second bug going around. It's Coming Out week this week, which is nice, because I got to help paint a mural this past weekend and stuff. I'm going to an Intervarsity Christian Fellowship meeting this evening, I think, too, which should be exciting. Also, there's some volunteering stuff going around campus right now…tomorrow I'm going with a bunch of people to buy shoes for a shoe drive, and on Saturday there's a beach cleanup trip happening in the morning. Life's pretty good.

Right now, my sister and I are trying to mess with the Special Relativity lecture by sitting in the front row with shirts saying "I can't remember…am I the good twin or the evil twin?". Many of the questions in Special Relativity problem sets focus around checking two clocks in two different reference frames, which tends to correspond to the presence of twins checking them. We figure that in about an hour of physics lectures using examples, it's inevitable that Prof. Townsend will eventually use us in a problem. The material today isn't exactly perfect for us to test this today, but it's the last Special Relativity lecture, and we had to try it sometime.

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