Losing the Battle

I've lost the battle with dad to go the longest without a blog post. Ok sorry guys, i've just been distracted by anything but the blog lately. To answer some of the questions that came up about me in the 2348 posts that I missed, (seriously i had a half hour of catch up reading to do), I am still alive and doing alright.

I figured out that my dormer windows swing open, which helps let in the cool breeze. It is really comfortable here Mom, since you are always asking about weather and so forth. It doesn't feel like fall yet in College Park.

Joe, Keith, Kevin and I have been getting along great. We are officially an entourage now. The other night we were hanging out and came up with the idea to have a cross country road trip over winter break. If it happens, it will be pretty amazing. I already volunteered a place to stay in Louisiana. Tonight Kevin is in class or working in a research lab where he works. Keith is on his way to Philadelphia to see Sufjan Stevens, a Christian folk musician who has received a lot of critical acclaim. Joe is on his way to Virginia Tech to hang out with some old friends for the weekend, so Andrew, look out for this guy (in the picture he was being handfed doughnuts to encourage him to get out of bed):

Last weekend as some of you know I went to VA beach for a concert with Elizabeth and Jenny. We went to the beach at night to hang out, where we met Elizabeth's delinquent cousin Mike. Honestly, if any of our cousins have issues, this guy is 100x worse. For instance, he is currently living in a motel room with a crack dealer. His girlfriend was arrested for cocaine possession a few days ago. Mike's current strategy for making money is to charge this drug dealing guy in a wheelchair $20,000 for hookers that only actually cost about $2000. Truth is stranger than fiction.
This is the one band's car that was at the concert we attended.












This a blurry picture cuz of exposure time of Elizabeth and Jenny in front of the world's largest sand castle which was being constructed on the beach this week. It's going to be in the GBook of World Records.










Tomorrow I have a test in my History of Rock class, so I have to keep the Ronnettes apart from the Shirelles, and Little Richard apart from Chuck Berry. I'm not too concerned, although I have some studying to do for it. I'm more concerned about when I have a test in my history of Architecture class, because there is soo much content. In my astronomy class we learned about eclipses in rather precise detail. I think a solar one is coming in 2017 across north america. When ancient people saw lunar eclipses they could see that the shadow of the earth on the moon was circular and correctly inferred that the earth was a ball much like the moon and sun. It took a lot longer however to realize we aren't the center of the solar system. Haha get this Amy: we had an astronomy problem about how far from the earth's surface geosynchronus satellites have to be. Fortunately I remembered from Ritter that the answer is about 43,000 km. I don't remember what my physics class last semester was about.

Philip: Bm D A G - it's pretty sweet.

In response to everyone else's posts:

Amy: Le Creusot does look like Day of Defeat. It also looks like you are going to have one of the best experiences of your lifetime thus far. Why does it have the same history as Lebanon? I think Solomon was right: there is nothing new under the sun. Still, I'm very jealous. You had better improve your espanol to maintain your image.

Andrew: sounds like you're hanging in there.

Philip: A few days ago I made the claim that no one in our family breaks bones because of the milk we drink. Oops.

Mom: thanks for the updates from the home front.

Dad: It's now down to you and Thunder. Oh by the way. The only account to which I can transfer the money from my stock sale is yours, which is ok, because it's going to go to you anyway. I just wanted to let you know I'm going to go ahead and move it over awhile. I think I am going to come home the following (8/9 October) weekend so we can take care of whatever.

Talk to you'll later.