sorry

I haven't really declared it but you might have noticed. I'm on hiatus with the ole' blog until after exams. Sad, yes I know, but I can't keep up with writing every day when I'm already writing every day... for grades. But I'm working at a jesus camp this summer and I will be blogging from there.

Oh, and hi to all you new friends who are due to fall in from the Google hole because history channel just ran their Bueno de Mesquita show again.

COOOOOOOOOKE!

When gas ran out, it sucked, but I got by.
When people started losing their jobs, it sucked, but it didn't really affect me.
When the banks and companies nearly caved in, it sucked, but I have nothing but student loan debt anyway.


BUT GOD DAMMIT COCA COLA I WILL NOT STAND FOR 16OZ BOTTLES OF DIET COKE!! DON'T THINK I DIDN'T NOTICE.

Science Wednesday!

Social psych today, not at all related to the stuff I'm studying for right now. Ok, but every person should watch this anyway. My apologies for not embedding the video, you'll have to go ahead and make the jump on your own.

Aaaannd since I feel bad for just posting a link, I'll throw in an awesome picture I found on the internet. It's a person's eye during an Indian festival of colors. The Indian festival of colors is now my new travel goal, since I've already hit up New Orleans during Mardi Gras (previous travel goal).

In Defense of "Ya'll"

Now if you read here a lot, you'll have picked up that I live in South Carolina. Its ok, I'll forgive you if you haven't. I'm not really a southern pride kind of person. I'm also politically liberal and try to keep my accent clean (apparently I slip into a drawl when I get angry, but I never hear it). Anyway enough about me. I'm here to talk about ya'll.

The word ya'll fixes a fundamental problem with the English language.

It is not cute, backwards or quaint.Other languages have words for plural and singular you. English didn't happen to get that one. Ya'll is a contraction that makes a distinction between singular and plural "you". For example, "When are you going to get here?" could mean you who is just one person, or you who is a group of people. You could fix this by adding another word that is plural, "When are you guys going to get here" This works, but makes a distinction of what you actually is, which won't be appropriate for every situation, lets say if there are females in the group, or the group isn't a group of people. "When are you all going to get here?" just says "all", as in the whole group. That's a little cumbersome though, adding a whole extra word in there, and it sounds so proper. What do we do? Resort to a contraction that's what. Ya'll. "When are ya'll going to get here?"

See? Now I know that may sound a little funny to you (ya'll), and I don't expect everyone to jump on the train, but please, at least stop assuming that the word marks an ignorant southerner.

Some Thoughts Keeping Me Up

Is it possible that light is just what happens to matter when it goes light speed?

If the big bang theory means that the universe was once all in one place, how big was it? and however big/small it was to begin with, why wasn't it smaller? Was it really all just in one finite little bubble? Or is that just as far as we can take the math? And where was it? Assuming the universe can expand implies some space or some context for it to exist in.

Meh, whatever. I don't know enough about this stuff to really get into it.