Darn.

Two years later: They finally made me get a driver's permit. =/

A Gaping Logic-Shaped Hole (aka: Lila is a Nerd):

I always wondered why, in space shows like Star Trek, when the crew sees a ship in the view-screens, it's always facing right-side-up. Space is three-dimensional, right? So if a ship launches from a planet, it's not going to shift its orientation to face a certain way. There is no up or down in space. If the x and y-axises are different when ships run into each other (and they are), so should be the Z. But no. All the ships are always 'upright'. You'd think sci-fi writers would take something like that into account when they go into so much detail otherwise.

...Of course, no one ever explains how all the aliens speak English, either.

Whine Whine Whine:

Time for some good old-fashioned whining (because, after all, that’s what the Internet is for, right?):

Geez, what a lame summer. I hate my job. I hate paper-cuts. I hate the defective photocopier, I hate 1000-page files, I hate the total isolation, the mind-numbing-ness of it all, and even my cubicle.

I can't wait for summer to end, which is stupid, because come September, I'll have even more work to do.

*grumble*

I'm Such a Nerd:

Call me a huge loser, but I'm really excited to see Hairspray when it comes out next week. It's got good music. I hope someone wants to go with me...please?
=)

I Waited Months for This:

It Really Can't Be Good for Public Relations:

Part of an interesting news article I read today:

"Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches..."

Read the rest.

It seems to me like that's a very weird stand for the pope to take (I wonder if pope is supposed to be capitalized). I mean, sure, standing up for one's own, specific beliefs/religion is good, but telling the rest of the Christians that they're not true Christians and don't really count (in order to make them Catholic, I'd assume) doesn't seem like the smartest tactic. If anything, it would cause discord rather than cooperation. Whatever happened to that whole idea of Christian brotherhood that Western society was built off of?

Hm. I dunno. I guess I just think it's weird, even if it doesn't relate to me at all.
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IN OTHER, HAPPIER NEWS: A guy from Bend sat down on his lawn-chair with some helium balloons and tried to fly to Idaho today. He made it 193 miles before he landed.

This is one of my life goals, now. Lawn-chair ballooning.

Fourth of July.

Wow. What a week. I spent the 4th (and 5th, 6th, 7th) at the beach. My family goes to Manzanita with friends every 4th of July. We hadn’t been for a couple years because of extenuating circumstances, but that made this year’s trip even more exciting, I think.

Every year, Manzanita has a Fourth of July parade, in which a lot of people participate. Our friends and we usually do, but this year we sat on the side and watched. The participants threw candy. It was a fruitful experience (yum).

Then, of course, were fireworks. It always amazes me how good Manzanita’s firework show is. The coolest thing about them was that we ended up on the beach right under them, instead of parked up next to the road like usual. It’s a lot more exciting to see (and hear) fireworks up close.

I rode my bike a lot, I took a ton of pictures (several that I liked enough to post online, so check my art site over the next few days), went tide pooling, ate good seafood, put together maybe five jigsaw puzzles, hung out with close friends, and ran into a guy who went to my high school (he worked in Manzanita’s teeny grocery store. Weird coincidence coming from a school of 160 people).

Good times with good friends and I didn't even get sunburned. Too bad I’m home now.

It's a Small World:

I went to the cast party for Grease yesterday. In a weird coincidence, the dad of the person who hosted the party was actually a teacher I had at ACMA. It was pretty strange. I showed up to the party and I suddenly realized why her dad had looked so familiar. It was quite the perspective shift, since I have a lot of negative associations with this guy (his Technology class was the most inane thing ever, and he could never get my name right, even after months of it [good thing my math schedule meant I didn't have to take a second term of that class]). It was weird, trying to separate my old perspective from the one I'd built up of this guy over the past week.

Yep. It's a small world, I guess. Just can't get over how weird that was for me.