Sep 21, 2004 20:32
So last night, brilliantly, I went to bed at two. I felt I had to rewrite my physics homework, as it was quite messy, and so I did that at about one. I was already exhausted from step aerobics and from my first day working as a bio departmental assistant -- I washed test tubes for an hour and a half, yay me? We also went to Safeway after some "studying" in the Montag (it was 10:30 by the time we left) and I bought Top Ramen and Pepto-Bismol because my stomach has been KILLING me since I've got here. I've already gone through one bottle of the stuff. Anywho, so yes, was v. tired.
Woke up this morning not feeling too bad, but the feeling of tiredness kept increasing throughout the day. Physics was all right, we spent the entire class deriving equations for a single situation. We got out early of microbio, which was a very good thing, seeing as how I'd drunk quite a lot of coffee in physics, heh. We went and hung out in the Bistro for twenty minutes before class, which was nice -- I really miss the hour we had last year after cell bio and before o-chem when we'd just chill in the Bistro. Makes me sad.
History went well today. There was some interesting discussion that involved members of the class wondering what Christians thought of Darwin's theories -- two of the guys seemed totally clueless to the fact that different denominations believe different things and that some are more liberal/conservative than others. I wanted to speak up and say something about what I think, but God/religion/spirituality has been so hazy for me these past three years that I wouldn't know what to say. My beliefs can be generally described as this: God exists. God's mechanism of creation is evolution. He did not plop all species onto the earth fully formed. His process of creation is what scientists refer to as evolution; as for the Earth, he formed it doing everything geologists say happened. He created the laws of nature and works within them. I believe He set off 'The Big Bang' and things went from there. I believe the book of Genesis is allegory, not fact, that seven days represent periods of millennia. My thoughts get a little hazier when it comes to human beings, but I believe Neanderthal fossils and whatnot are genuine. I also believe humans have souls. And heck, I half-believe in aliens as well, because I cannot believe that God would be satisfied with only us. But I didn't know how to say any of that, really. :-/
Physics lab was fun, if freaking long. I really like my lab partners, Annie and Jordan. They're both in o-chem and have it right before lab, so they're always reeling from the quizzes and tests, the poor things. I've offered to help them out and I'm always reminiscing about o-chem in front of them, heh. It's good times. But yeah. We had to do three problems and we were the last group to leave, because a) we were chatty and b) kept doing things almost-correctly but not quite. It was still fun, though.
Found a dead bird on the way back to my dorm afterwards. Its remains are scattered all across the Lausanne lawn -- feathers everywhere, some of them sticky with blood, and a wing still attached to half a torso with organs visible. I wonder what on earth happened, man.
Got back to the room and thought I would die of exhaustion. Took a nap before dinner and felt worse upon waking; ended up eating nothing at Goudy, and instead made ramen here. Mmm, ramen. I'm feeling a bit better now, but I sincerely hope I'm not getting sick.
Okay, enough for now -- FnG meeting!
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