Reading this is an awesome way to waste time.

It's one in the morning. I have to be up at five. I have a psychology exam at eight in the morning.

And I can't sleep.



Have you ever randomly thought of a word, usually it having nothing at all to do with what you're doing or thinking about, and realized you actually have no idea what it means? Maybe it just sounds cool and you really want to use it one day, but to do that, you have to know what it means. I do this a lot, but I had a really bad case of it about thirty minutes ago.

I was about to wash my face and get ready for bed (but not sleep, obviously) and out of nowhere the words angular momentum pop into my head. Where the hell did that come from? I have no idea. I've never even taken physics. But it's a really cool phrase and, if used correctly, could make me sound totally smart. I had to know what it meant. "Ok, just break it down and you can figure it out. No big deal," I thought to myself. My internal argument continued like this:

 Angular: obviously, it deals with angles. Easy peasy.

Momentum: a little more difficult to define..it's not really speed it's..it has to do with consistancy, right? Yeah that sounds right..

So..the constant movement of..an angle? A constant angle? Maybe I'm forgetting something..triangles?

Screw it. This is what google.com was made for.

So I looked it up. Surprisingly, I was close. Kinda. I shoulda guessed circles instead of triangles. Angular momentum measures an object's tendency to continue to spin.

Don't ask for an example because I have no idea. But next time I see some one spinning a basketball, believe me when I say that I'll go up and tell them all about angular momentum and they better damn well listen.

If you actually read through all this, kudos to you. :]

TEDtalk. Music is everything.

I love that we get to pick our own topics for these papers and that it is a HUGE deal that we hold interest in the topic we write about. I always hated the English papers we were forced to write in high school that I had no interest in.

I went to ted.com and immediately searched for "music." It is truly a major component in my life and I am very passionate about it. I clicked on the first video that came up and, after watching it, knew it would be the video and topic I would choose to write.

Robert Gupta talks about how influential music really is. Music is just not notes and sounds put together, but it is a movement and a catalyst.

I'm still not completely positive how I'm going to turn this topic into a six or seven page paper, but I know I plan on talking about how music brings us together, tears us apart, gives us understanding or piece of mind, how it can help with disorders...and a few other things I haven't thought of yet.

What do you guys think of the video?