February 2012
True Grit
It’s funny, because I learned some things from my psychology class that I never attend. I learned that more than natural born intelligence even, the greatest indicator of, well, greatness is something that psychologists call “grit” based on the John Wayne movie by the same name (and there’s a new one, but come on, The Duke!). Basically, the people who excel the most in...
I can’t sleep. I really don’t know why, I’m tired and can hardly keep my eyes open. But when I close them and lay down I just can’t stop my thoughts from racing… sigh… it’s annoying. I want to sleep and get up for class and be a good student. Why won’t my body just do what I want?
Just one of the answers I came up with to a...
function [swept] = minesweeper (mines) [m n] = size(mines); i = 1; j = 1; set = cell(m,n); total = m*n; k = 1; swept = mines; while k <= total if isempty(mines{k}) == true set{k} = 0; elseif isempty(mines{k}) == false set{k} = 1; end k = k + 1; end while j <= n i = 1; while i <= m if isempty(swept{i,j}) == true if i == 1 && j ==...
I like the word “echelon”
In the daylight we could hitchhike to Maine
I hope that someday I’ll see without these frames
And in the daylight I don’t pick up my phone
Cause in the daylight anywhere feels like home.
My happy song of the day
My mother, of all people, pointed something out the other day that I hadn’t really realized. I swear, she knows me better than I do, but that might be because it’s hard to objectively observe myself without having some sort of out-of-body experience. Anyways, as I was absorbed in the shelves of a book store, she commented on how I just love books so much. She said, I could probably...
I’ve got it. I just wrote for a solid 2 hours, and I think I have the rough outline of my book. I even have the series set up for how I want it. 3 books. I mean, maybe I’m getting ahead of myself, planning for multiple books, but still. I have a story. And it’s set out. Now all I have to do is fill in all the space that isn’t taken up. 2 page summary of the whole...
“We tremble in awe of that which cannot be seen and we worship that which cannot be seen. And so fell the sword of fate”
Stories are the greatest thing ever. I’m sure I realized it before, I’ve even talked about it. But I’ve changed again, because of a story. They influence our lives. And it seems I’ve been struck again. Non sum qualum eram: I am not such that I was. Change is the only constant. Well, that and my friendship with certain people. But change… I’ve changed...
I’m writing again. I stopped for a while, because I’m bad at motivating myself, but on the spur of the moment I’m going to just put it out there that I’m writing again so that way I actually will. Because otherwise, I’d be lying to more people than just myself. So there. I’m writing again.
It’s funny, I bought a book at like 6 o’clock today, couldn’t read from 7 to 8:30, but I finished it at 1 am. I just read too quickly I guess. Someone told me to slow down and actually enjoy it, but I think I read so quickly and just make it into a movie for myself. If I read slower, it would be like looking at a bunch of pictures instead. I don’t know. On the...
Every time my physics teacher says “theta” it sound like “pita”. He is from East Germany.
